Nasreen Hossain is a professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the Department of Architecture, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). She is a BUET graduate and obtained her PhD as a Commonwealth Scholar from the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, UK in 2001. Professor Nasreen's academic and research interest lies in Urban Morphology, Urban Retail Environment, and Informal Urbanism. Her publications based on empirical studies in these fields depicts her keen interest in searching for behavioural dynamics and economics of space mechanism in shaping spatially sustainable urban environment. She was the Editor of Journal of Architecture, a peer-reviewed research journal published by the Department of Architecture, BUET. She has served as the head of the Department of Architecture, BUET from 2018 to 2020.