Assiel Mugabe earned, from the University of Rwanda, a BSc in soil and environmental management (2007), a Postgraduate diploma in irrigation and drainage,  and an MSc in soil and water engineering (2019). He is a PhD student in Water Resources Engineering at the University of Rwanda, College of Science and Technology, where he is conducting his PhD research, " Impacts of Climate Change on Socio-Economic Development Projects: Case study of Hazardous Floods in the Sebeya Catchment". He is now a Lecturer of hydrology in the Civil Engineering Department at Rwanda Polytechnic, Kigali College. His work in the fields of hydrology, water resources management, irrigation engineering, environmental sustainability, and disaster risk reduction has resulted in publications and presentations in seminars and conferences. His research interests include climate variability and water resources, hydrological modeling, flood susceptibility assessment, landslide risk management, and water quality assessment.