Our Team

Fatema Begum, P.E.

President

Ms. Fatema has her MSc from State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo) in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2012. She started her working career in Connecticut as an Assistant Engineer where her responsibilities were drainage design, grading plans, and AutoCAD drafting etc. Eventually she started working as Bridge Hydraulic Engineer and enriched her skill setup in open channel flow and flood insurance. She has experience in bridge hydraulics and stormwater management fields in different companies for more than seven years. She gained expertise in Flood Insurance Study (FIS), Drainage Manuals of different states, Hydraulic engineering Circulars (HEC series). She is an Approved Hydraulic Engineer in Connecticut DOT. She obtained her Professional Engineer (P.E.) certification in Civil, Environmental and Water Resource Engineering in CT and NY. She has NCEES work verification record and have ability to obtain PE license in any state. She specializes in Flood Zoning Modification, Stormwater Management, Groundwater Sampling, Environmental Permitting, Hydrologic and Hydraulics (H & H), Scour, Floodway Analysis and Report Writing.

Dr. Ehsan Bhuiyan

Vice President

Dr. Ehsan Bhuiyan received his PhD in civil and environmental engineering from University of Connecticut. His research focuses on the application of Artificial intelligence ( machine/deep learning tools) in remote sensing, weather forecasting, climate-change prediction, Permafrost, and the modeling of hydro-meteorological processes. Moreover, a major part of his research work consists of the integration of satellite and reanalysis of precipitation datasets with machine learning tool for investigating the main error sources and assessing the error propagation into Multi-Hydrologic Model Simulations which has direct applications in water resources management, weather and climate prediction. His current research demonstrates AI based algorithm in diverse tundra landscapes and lay a firm foundation for its operational-level application in mapping ice-rich permafrost and repeated documentation of permafrost disturbances at the sub-meter scale across the pan-Arctic.

Tarik Binoy, P.E.

Geotechnical Engineer

Mr. Tarik Binoy, PE (MI), is experienced in geotechnical engineering and consultation. He completed his MSc in Civil Engineering from Lawrence Technological University (LTU), Michigan. He started his career in geotechnical engineering research at LTU in 2014, where he developed subgrade stabilization guidelines for the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT). Since 2016, he has been working as a geotechnical engineer, working on geotechnical investigations and designs on a wide range of industrial, commercial, and residential development projects throughout Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia, New York, New Jersey, California, and Alaska. His experience includes geotechnical design, consultation, and construction supports for a wide range of projects, including site assessment and feasibility study, shallow and deep foundations for buildings, roadways, bridges, culverts, et cetera. Mr. Binoy is experienced in mega projects for clients, including Ford Motors, Chevron, BASF corporation, as-well-as mid to small size clients, including local banks, community colleges, hospitals, and private property owners. Mr. Binoy is also experienced in infrastructure projects for various government entities, including the Michigan and Ohio Departments of Transportation (MDOT and ODOT), cities, counties, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, California office of Emergency Services, Air Force Bases, and US EPA. His expertise includes planning and leading geotechnical field investigations, preparing geotechnical investigation reports, geotechnical data reports, performing various geotechnical designs, and planning and managing geotechnical instrumentation.

Sheikh Munir

Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Munir brings over 20 years of consulting and executive management experience to EFA Research & Consulting. As a seasoned CxO level advisor, his list of clients include G-SIBs (Citi Group, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley and Societe Generale Group). His areas of expertise included accounting and regulatory reporting for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, restatements, revenue recognition and other complex transactions. Mr. Munir holds an MBA and MS in Accounting from Northeastern University, Boston, MA. He had started his professional career as a Lecturer of Department of Accounting of University of Dhaka, Bangladesh after securing outstanding academic ranking in Master of Commerce (M.Com) and in Bachelor of Commerce (Honors). While in academia, Munir taught advanced managerial accounting, advance finance and portfolio management, business mathematics, accounting theory development and research methodology courses at the graduate levels. He was also actively involved in several behavioral accounting and auditing researches.

Dr. Asif Ahmed

Geotechnical Engineer

Asif Ahmed, PhD, PE received PhD from the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) in Civil (Geotechnical) Engineering in 2017. During his graduate work, he researched the effect of environmental loading on the flexible pavement stress in Texas. His experience includes site investigation, geotechnical instrumentation, unsaturated soil behavior, finite element modeling of soils. He has experience of using geophysical testing in the form of Resistivity Imaging (RI) for forensic investigation. He also worked in different research projects on failure investigation of highway slopes and geophysical evaluation of existing highway sub-structures. He has expertise working with Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) on various projects such as slope stabilization using Recycled Plastic Pin (RPP), Subgrade Stabilization using Recycled Materials, treatment of flexible pavement stress using geosynthetics, field monitoring of several state and local roads using geotechnical instrumentation, improvement of bearing capacity of soft soil using RPP. He has also expertise in real time data modeling for better pavement performance prediction. He obtained his Professional Engineer (P.E.) certification in Civil Engineering in the state of Michigan. He has NCEES work verification record and have ability to obtain PE license in any state. He specializes using PLAXIS, GeoStudio package and other commercial software for practical applications.