Dr. Abubakr Muhammad Founding Director of Center for Water Informatics and Technology (WIT) spoke on River basins as complex cyber-physical-social systems at the United States and Pakistan Centre for Advanced Studies in Water at University of Utah, USA.
Dr. Muhammad talked about recognising the strong coupling of human behaviour with natural systems, his group has developed game-theoretic socio-ecological models to investigate sustainability and environmentalism in South Asia’s complex river basins. Using robotics and automation solutions for water management and precision agriculture in the world's largest contiguous irrigation network in Pakistan, the group aims to combat large-scale environmental changes brought about by climate change, demographic transitions, urbanisation and disruptive technologies.
