Publications

Research at WIT is carried out by students and full-time research staff who regularly publish their work at venues of national and international repute.

Graduate Theses

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Peer-reviewed Articles

Below is a list of publications (co) authored by the staff at WIT

2026

• Siddiqui, T., Khan, H., Awais, M., & Muhammad, A. (2026). Water footprint of digital infrastructure amid climate uncertainty in Pakistan.
• Rana, M. I., Rafique, H., & Jaleel, H. (2026). Satellite-anchored UAV sensing system for high-resolution soil moisture mapping. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 253, Article 112191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2026.112191
• Awais, M., Azevedo, D., & McPherson, M. (2026). Decarbonization pathways for Canada’s federated energy system using a subnational integrated assessment model. npj Climate Action, 5, Article 42. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44168-026-00355-5

2025

• Wescoat, J. L., Jr., Koshul, B., & Muhammad, A. (2025). "Principled pragmatism in water resources research: An historical and philosophical perspective on studies in South Asia and beyond". Water Resources Research, 61,e2025WR040155
• Muhammad Sheraz, Talha Manzoor, Malik Jahan Khan, Usman Ali, Hamza Tariq, Shabeh ul Hasson, “Hydrometeorological Network of Namal Valley, Pakistan”, Nature Scientific Data, 12(1), pp.1-10, Jun 2025
• Nihal Ahmed, Talha Manzoor, Ijaz Haider Naqvi, “Context-Aware Management of IoT Nodes: Balancing Informational Value with Energy Usage”, 11th IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), Chengdu, Oct 2025.
• Moeen Ahmed Azam, Naveed Ul Hassan, Talha Manzoor, “Experimental Evaluation of Machine Learning Based Path Loss Models for Localizing Floating Wireless Sensor Network”, 11th IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), Chengdu, Oct 2025.
• van Vuuren, D. P., Abduallah, A., Agarwal, S., Aleluia Reis, L., Awais, M., Di Bella, A., Bosetti, V., Brutschin, E., Campo Lombato, E., Charalampidis, I., Chaudhury, S., Chen, W., Crassier, C., Cró Maycock, S., Dafnomilis, I., Dekker, M., Fragkiadakis, D., Gkampura, E.-C., Garg, A., He, C., Hooijschuur, E., Maheshwari, J., Manzoor, T., Mathur, R., Missbach, L., Pachauri, S., Pelz, S., Phuong, H., Rathmann, R., Riahi, K., Rocchi, P., Schaeffer, R., Schmidt Tagomori, I., Steckel, J. C., Solf, S., Sudharmma Vishwanathan, S., Thanh Tu, T., Nguyen, V., Vrontisi, Z., Yang, L., Zhang, S., & Zinkeviciute, G. (2025). Holding the course in a shifting world: Annual net-zero report 2025. PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.
• Azam, M. A., Manzoor, T., & Ul Hassan, N. (2025). Experimental evaluation of machine learning based path loss models for localizing floating wireless sensor network. In Proceedings of the 11th IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT). https://doi.org/10.1109/WF-IoT64238.2025.11270768

2024

• H. Jaleel, W. K. Awan, W. Hassan, A. Muhammad, and S. A. Prathapar, "A Realtime Decision Support System for Improving Canal Operations Under Fixed Rotation Schedule," under review Agriculture Water Management, 2024 
• Wasim Hassan, Talha Manzoor, Abubakr Muhammad, “ The limits to equity in water allocation under scarcity”, Journal of Hydrology, 131631, Jul 2024.
• M. Ahmad, H. Rafique and A. Muhammad, "Exploring the Application of Machine Learning for Soil Moisture Forecasting over In-situ Soil Moisture Sensors Network," 2024 Horizons of Information Technology and Engineering (HITE), Lahore, Pakistan, 2024, pp. 1-5.
• W. Hassan, T. Manzoor and A. Muhammad, "The limits to equity in water allocation under scarcity," Journal of Hydrology, vol. 639, 2024, Art. no. 131631
• H. Rafique, R. Zainab, Z. Ahmad and A. Muhammad, "A Quality Assured in-situ Real-Time Soil Moisture Monitoring Network for the Indus Basin," IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Athens, Greece, 2024, pp. 5155-5161.

2023

• M. Sohail, U. Nazir, J. Ahmad, A. Muhammad, M. Taj and R. Sahajpal, “Analyzing the knock‑on impacts of 2022 floods on Rabi 2023 using remote sensing and field surveys,” Proc. Int. Conf. Integrated Flood Management under Changing Climate Scenario (IFMCC), 2023.
• Mariam Arif, Talha Manzoor “Optimal Control for Sustainable Intervention in a Coupled Socio Climatic Model of Air Pollution”, 22nd World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Yokohama, 2023
• S. I. Ullah and A. Muhammad, "Autonomous Navigation and Mapping of Water Channels in a Simulated Environment Using Micro-Aerial Vehicles," 2023. International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI), Peshawar, Pakistan, 2023, pp. 1-7
• Sohail, M., & Muhammad, A. 2023. Assessment Of The 2022 Flood Disaster In Pakistan’s Lower Indus Plain Using SAR And Optical Remote Sensing. In IGARSS 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (pp. 2173-2176). Pasadena, CA, USA.
• Hassan, W., Manzoor, T., & Muhammad, A. 2023. Improving equity in demand-driven irrigation systems through a rights-preserving water allocation mechanism. Agricultural Water Management, 287, 108443.
• Muhammad, A., & Wescoat, J. L. 2023. Developing Knowledge Capacity and Wisdom for Water Resource Management and Service Delivery: New Conceptual Models and Tools. In M. Ahmad (Ed.), Water Policy in Pakistan (Global Issues in Water Policy, Vol. 30). Springer, Cham. 

2022

• Ilyas, A., Parkinson, S., Vinca, A., Byers, E., Manzoor, T., Riahi, K., Willaarts, B., Siddiqi, A., and Muhammad, A., 2022. Balancing smart irrigation and hydropower investments for sustainable water conservation in the Indus basin. Environmental Science & Policy, 135.
• Affan, A., Nasir, H. A., Manzoor, T., and Muhammad, A., 2022. Mobile sensing for estimation of hydro-dynamic parameters for minimally gauged open channels.  Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 198, 107072.
• Ilyas, A., Manzoor, T., and Muhammad, A., 2022. Capturing Local Behavioural Feedbacks in Large Scale Models for Resource Optimization.  In 2022 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) (pp. 901-906). 
• Khan, Z., Abraham, E., Aggarwal, S., ... Ilyas, A., Muhammad, A., et. al. 2022. Emerging themes and future directions of multi-sector nexus research and implementation.  Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10, 1025. 
• Sohail, M., Ahmad, Z., and Muhammad, A., 2022. Catchment-Level Estimation of Snow Depth Using Sentinel-1 and Ground Sensor Validation in the Upper Indus Basin.  In IGARSS 2022- IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (pp. 4260-4263).
• Manzoor, T., Arshad, H., Nasir, H. A., Sheraz, M., and Khan, M. J., 2022. Development of Hydrometric Sensor Networks in Formerly Ungauged Watersheds: Lessons from Namal Valley, Mianwali.  In IGARSS 2022- IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (pp. 4260-4263).

2021

• Ilyas, A., Manzoor, T., & Muhammad, A.,  2021. A Dynamic Socio‐Hydrological Model of the Irrigation Efficiency Paradox. Water Resources Research, 57(12), e2021WR029783.
• Hassan, W., Manzoor, T., Jaleel, H. and Muhammad, A., 2021. Demand-based water allocation in irrigation systems using mechanism design: A case study from Pakistan. Agricultural Water Management, 256(1).
• Vinca, A., Parkinson, S., Riahi, K., Byers, E., Siddiqi, A., Muhammad, A., Ilyas, A., Yogeswaran, N., Willaarts, B., Magnuszewski, P. and Awais, M., 2021. Transboundary cooperation a potential route to sustainable development in the Indus basin. Nature Sustainability, 4(4), pp.331-339.

2020

• Hale, M.T., Ruf, S.F., Manzoor, T. and Muhammad, A., 2020. Stability and Sustainability of a Networked Resource Consumption Model. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 7(4), pp.2876-2888.
• Farooq, M., Muhammad, A. and Manzoor, T., 2020, December. Climate Informatics for the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the Indus Basin: A Scoping Study in Modeling Dairy Farms. In AGU Fall Meeting 2020. AGU.
• Vinca, A., Parkinson, S., Byers, E., Burek, P., Khan, Z., Krey, V., Diuana, F.A., Wang, Y., Ilyas, A., Köberle, A.C. and Staffell, I., 2020. The NExus Solutions Tool (NEST) v1. 0: an open platform for optimizing multi-scale energy–water–land system transformations. Geoscientific Model Development, 13(3), pp.1095-1121.
• Ilyas, A., Parkinson, S., Vinca, A. and Muhammad, A., 2020. Diffusion of Smart Irrigation Systems for Tackling Water-Energy-Food Nexus Challenges in the Indus Basin, 14th International Conference on Hydroinformatics (HIC 2020), Mexico, 2020.
• Hassan, W., Jaleel, H., Manzoor, T. and Muhammad, A., 2020. A VCG Mechanism for Demand Management of Irrigation Systems. Proc. of the 20th IFAC World Congress (IFAC-PapersOnLine), 53(2), pp.16555-16560, Germany.
• Affan, A., Nasir, H.A. and Muhammad, A., 2020. State Estimation in 2D Hydrological Models using Lagrangian Sensors and Low Resolution Elevation Maps. Proc. of the 20th IFAC World Congress (IFAC-PapersOnLine), 53(2), pp.16549-16554, Germany.

2019

• Ruf, S.F., Hale, M.T., Manzoor, T. and Muhammad, A., 2019, December. Design of sustainable resource consumption networks. In 2019 IEEE 58th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) (pp. 1692-1697). IEEE.
• Abbas, S.M., Ali, H. and Muhammad, A., 2019. Autonomous canal following by a micro-aerial vehicle using deep CNN. 6th International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) on Sensing, Control and Automation Technologies for Agriculture, IFAC-PapersOnLine 52(30), pp.243-250, Sydney, Australia.
• Ilyas, A., Vinca, A., Parkinson, S., Byers, E., Burek, P., Wada, Y., Krey, V., Riahi, K., Djilali, N., Khan, A. and Langan, S., 2019, January. Quantifying impacts of smart irrigation technology on long-term water-energy nexus challenges in the Indus River Basin. In Geophysical Research Abstracts (Vol. 21).
• Affan, A., Nasir, H.A., Shafiq, B. and Muhammad, A., 2019. Data Assimilation of Mobile Sensors in Hydrological Models of Unsteady Flow. IFAC Workshop on Control Methods in Water Resource Systems, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 52(23), pp.29-36, Delft, Netherlands.
• Ilyas, A., Hassan, W., Manzoor, T. and Muhammad, A., 2019. Towards Regulating Consumption in a Socio-hydrological Model for Groundwater Extraction. 1st IFAC Workshop on Control Methods for Water Resource Systems (CMWRS), IFAC-PapersOnLine, 52(23), pp.94-100, Delft Netherlands.

2018

• Ruf, S.F., Hale, M.T., Manzoor, T. and Muhammad, A., 2018, December. Stability of leaderless resource consumption networks. In 2018 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) (pp. 5334-5339). IEEE.
• Siddiqi, A., Muhammad, A. and Wescoat Jr, J.L., 2018, December. Dynamics of allocations and deliveries in irrigation systems: investigating human-water interactions. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2018, pp. H53D-01).
• Vinca, A., Parkinson, S., Byers, E., Burek, P., Ilyas, A., Wang, Y., Khan, A., Wada, Y., Muhammad, A., Krey, V. and Djilali, N., 2018, December. A Framework for Charting Water-Energy-Land Nexus Solutions for the Indus Basin. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2018, pp. GC53C-07).
• Vinca, A., Ilyas, A., Wang, Y., Parkinson, S., Byers, E., Khan, A., Burek, P., Wada, Y., Mayor, B., Riahi, K. and Djilali, N., 2018, December. Quantifying interactions between smart irrigation technologies and energy transformation in the Indus Basin. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2018, pp. GC51I-0908).
• Ahmad, Z., Khalid, R. and Muhammad, A., 2018, October. Spatially distributed water quality monitoring using floating sensors. In IECON 2018-44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (pp. 2833-2838). IEEE.
• Siddiqi, A., Wescoat Jr, J.L. and Muhammad, A., 2018. Socio-hydrological assessment of water security in canal irrigation systems: a conjoint quantitative analysis of equity and reliability. Water Security, 4, pp.44-55.
• Wescoat Jr, J.L., Siddiqi, A. and Muhammad, A., 2018. Socio‐hydrology of channel flows in complex river basins: Rivers, canals, and distributaries in Punjab, Pakistan. Water Resources Research, 54(1), pp.464-479.

2017

• Siddiqi, A., Muhammad, A. and Wescoat Jr, J.L., 2017, December. A Quantitative Socio-hydrological Characterization of Water Security in Large-Scale Irrigation Systems. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2017, pp. H13S-04).
• Manzoor, T., Rovenskaya, E., Davydov, A. and Muhammad, A., 2017. Learning through fictitious play in a game-theoretic model of natural resource consumption. IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2(1), pp.163-168.
• Ahmad, Z., Pasha, M.A., Ahmad, A., Muhammad, A., Masud, S., Schappacher, M. and Sikora, A., 2017, September. Performance evaluation of IEEE 802.15. 4-compliant smart water meters for automating large-scale waterways. In 2017 9th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications (IDAACS) (Vol. 2, pp. 746-751). IEEE.
• Manzoor, T., Rovenskaya, E. and Muhammad, A., 2017. Structural effects and aggregation in a social-network model of natural resource consumption. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 50(1), pp.7675-7680.

2016

• Manzoor, T., Rovenskaya, E. and Muhammad, A., 2016. Game-theoretic insights into the role of environmentalism and social-ecological relevance: A cognitive model of resource consumption. Ecological modelling, 340, pp.74-85.
• Muhammad, A., 2016, July. Managing river basins with thinking machines. In 2016 IEEE Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century (21CW) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
• Riaz, W., Ahmad, Z. and Muhammad, A., 2016. A smart metering approach towards measuring flows in small irrigation outlets. Procedia Engineering, 154, pp.236-242.
• Rehmat, C.A., Muhammad, A. and Hassan, N.U., 2016. Comparative frameworks for risk mitigation in canal networks. Procedia Engineering, 154, pp.1414-1423.
• Muhammad, A., Haider, B. and Ahmad, Z., 2016. IoT enabled analysis of irrigation rosters in the Indus basin irrigation system. Procedia Engineering, 154, pp.229-235.