Ph.D. in Reliability Engineering and Risk Management, August 2010 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

Dissertation: “Modeling and Management of Epistemic Uncertainty for Multidisciplinary System Analysis and Design”.

Master of Science in Industrial and Production Engineering, December 2005 Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Production Engineering, February 2003 Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Recent Journal Papers

1. Saimon, A. I., & Zaman, K. (2026). Likelihood-based partially decoupling approach to coupled multidisciplinary analysis under epistemic uncertainty. Research in Engineering Design, 37(1), 6.
2. Zaman, K., & Kibria, G. (2025). A Decoupled Approach to Multidisciplinary System Analysis Under Uncertainty. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 126(12), e70062.
3. Shahbab, R. M., & Zaman, K. (2024). A new approach to robustness-based optimization using uncertainty set constructed through machine learning. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 67(7), 125.
4. Kaisar, T. I., Zaman, K., & Khasawneh, M. T. (2023). A new approach to probabilistic classification based on gaussian process and support vector machine. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 186, 109719.
5. Hasan, N., Sarker, P., & Zaman, K. (2023). Multidisciplinary robust and reliability-based design optimization of injection molding system. International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM), 17(6), 2957-2975.
6. Dey, A., & Zaman, K. (2020). A robust optimization approach for solving two-person games under interval uncertainty. Computers & Operations Research, 119, 104937.
7. Dey, S., & Zaman, K. (2020). Dimension reduction method-based RBDO for dependent interval variables. International Journal of Computational Methods, 17(10), 2050017.
8. Biswas, T. K., & Zaman, K. (2019). A fuzzy-based risk assessment methodology for construction projects under epistemic uncertainty. International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, 21(4), 1221-1240.
9. Zaman, K., & Dey, P. R. (2017). Likelihood-based representation of epistemic uncertainty and its application in robustness-based design optimization. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 56(4), 767-780.
10. Zaman, K., & Mahadevan, S. (2017). Reliability-based design optimization of multidisciplinary system under aleatory and epistemic uncertainty. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 55(2), 681-699.

Conference Papers

1. McDonald, M., Zaman, K., Mahadevan, S., Representation and First-Order Approximations for Propagation of Aleatory and Distribution Parameter Uncertainty,  In Proceedings of the 50th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, 4 - 7 May, 2009 Palm Springs, California, Paper number AIAA-2009-2250.
2. Zaman, K, McDonald, M, Rangavajhala, S and Mahadevan, S, Representation and Propagation of both Probabilistic and Interval Uncertainty, In Proceedings of the 51th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, 12-15 April, 2010, Orlando, Florida, Paper number AIAA 2010-2853.
3. Zaman, K, McDonald, M, Rangavajhala, S and Mahadevan, S, Robustness-based design optimization with sparse point and interval data, In Proceedings of the 13th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis Optimization Conference, 13 - 15 Sep 2010, Fort Worth, Texas, Paper number AIAA 2010-9035.
4. Zaman, K, McDonald, M, Rangavajhala, S and Mahadevan, S, Reliability Analysis with Probabilistic and Interval Variables, In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP11), August 1-4, 2011, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
5. Zaman, K, McDonald, M, Rangavajhala, S and Mahadevan, S, Representation, Aggregation and Propagation of Aleatory and Epistemic Uncertainty in Probabilistic Framework, The 2009 Joint ASCE- ASME- SES Conference on Mechanics and Materials, June 24-27, 2009, Blacksburg, VA.
6. Zaman, K, and Mahadevan, S, Design Optimization under Data Uncertainty, The 9th World Congress on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 13-17 June, 2011, Shizuoka, Japan.
7. Zaman, K, and Khan, S, Construction of Confidence Interval on Mean value with Interval Data, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, 16-19 April, 2013, Singapore.