Dr. Qureshi has more than 30 years of experience as a professional engineer in the field of hydraulics, irrigation, and drainage engineering including research, teaching, and supervising research projects for the graduate engineers. He has worked for monitoring and evaluation of irrigation and drainage projects, numerically predicted sediment transport in alluvial channels, their aggradation and degradation, groundwater monitoring and modeling for its sustainable management, canal water monitoring for equitable water delivery to various stakeholders, water resources management (ground and surface water). He has developed finite element computer models for sediment transport, aggradation & degradation of canals, and salinity mixing models in water bodies and groundwater aquifers using the three-dimensional groundwater model MODFLOW, and conducted Vertical Electrical Soundings and socio-economic surveys of irrigated agricultural command areas for the USAID-ICARDA and HEC funded projects.

Recently, he has completed USAID-funded industry-academia project as PI in “Closed-loop secondary level canal monitoring for equitable and reliable distribution of water” in October/November 2019 in collaboration with SIDA, LUMS Lahore and University of Utah, two projects on groundwater as Co-PI regarding Smart groundwater monitoring and Sustainable Management of Fresh Groundwater for Irrigated Agriculture and Livelihood of Rural Areas of Sindh in 2021 in lower Indus region.

Presently, he is working on the Metering the aquifer using smart monitoring and a data-driven approach to assist in devising an adaptive groundwater management strategy in Balochistan as a lead PI from MUET and Living with Salinity in Lower Indus Region, Building Adaptive Capacity to Improve Livelihoods of Farming Communities of Malwah Distributary as Focal Person.

Dr. Qureshi has more than 100 research papers, published in International/National Research Journals and presented in international/ national conferences/symposiums. Dr. Qureshi has worked as a resource person for delivering lectures in various training to irrigation engineers, on-farm water management officers, service providers and farmers at the national level. He has also worked as a resource person with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of United Nations for the capacity building in support of Water Sector Improvement Project (WSIP) for the improvement of the irrigation system in Sindh in 2004-05.