Muhammad Zulkarnain bin Abdul Rahman was born in the city of Muar, Malaysia. In 1997 he enrolled to the diploma course in Computer Science (Information Technology) at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He graduated in 2000 and received an award of the best student from the Faculty of Computer Science. In 2001 he received a full scholarship from the Public Service Department of Malaysia for 2 and half years for his BSc degree program. He was admitted to the BSc. Remote Sensing program at the same university in 2001. After 3 years he graduated and received the best student award from the Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Engineering, which now known as the Faculty of Geoinformation and Real Estate. Soon after that, he was hired as a tutor for the Department of Remote Sensing, Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Engineering, UTM. In 2004 he received a full scholarship from the Ministry for Higher Education (MOHE) of Malaysia for pursuing his study to a Master degree. He pursued his study at the International Institute for Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Enschede, The Netherlands. After 18 months he received MSc. degree in Earth Resources and Environmental Geosciences (Natural hazards) with distinction.
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During the completion of his thesis he was assigned to the Strengthening Local Authorities in Risk Management (SLARIM) project in Naga City, The Philippines. His MSc. thesis entitled “Digital surface model DSM construction and flood hazard simulation for development plans in Naga city, Philippines” was selected as the best MSc. thesis at ITC for year 2006. In March 2006 he was appointed as a lecturer at UTM. He received a full scholarship from the Ministry for Higher Education of Malaysia for PhD program in 2007 with the period of study for 4 years. In January 2007 he joined the Section of Optical and Laser Remote Sensing (OLRS), Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands as PhD student. His research was devoted for hydrodynamic roughness estimation using high density airborne LiDAR data which is presented in his PhD thesis.
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He is very active in publishing his research works in various fields which are related to hydrodynamics, hydrology, forestry, natural hazard and risk, digital image processing, and LiDAR processing.
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