Prof. Dr. Ataur Rahman is a Professor of Water Engineering at Western Sydney University. He obtained his BEng (Civil) from Khulna University of Engineering and Technology in 1982, a Masters in Hydrology from the National University of Ireland in 1990, and a PhD from Monash University, Australia in 1997. He worked at Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh Water Development Board, Sinclair Knight Merz, CRC for Catchment Hydrology and Queensland University of Technology before joining the University of Western Sydney in 2002 as a lecturer. He has served as a Visiting Academic at Cornell University (USA), Vienna University of Technology (Austria), INRS (Canada), The University of Newcastle (Australia), Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (UAE), and University of New South Wales (Australia). He received the G N Alexander Medal from The Institution of Engineers, Australia in 2002 for an outstanding research paper on loss modelling for design flood estimation. He is the founder and Chair of GCSTMR (Global Circle for Scientific, Technological and Management Research) and served as the Co-Chair of the Water Education and Research Committee of the Australian Water Association; he is also a Fellow of Engineers Australia. He is one of the top 2% scientists globally (2023 data) and has published 170 referred journal articles. His total number of publications exceeds 500. He is one of the authors of Australian Rainfall and Runoff (National Guideline).