He joined there in 1987. He graduated in Civil Engineering and then Masters and PhD in Environmnetal Engineering & management. His expertise is the application of Artificial Neural Networks and Drinking water quality monitoring. Niaz has many international publications on his credit in this area, as author or co-author. He has reviewed many of the manuscripts. Last year in 12th CSCC conference on Computers, in Crete, Greece, his paper was decalred as one of the best papers of the conference and the extended version was published in the "WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON ENVIROENMENT AND DEVELOPMENT" volume 4, issue 8 , August 2008. He developed many ANN models for predicting the critical parameters of the drinking water, keeping in view that the safe drinking water is HEALTH and the sanitaion is the "DIGINITY".