Msc Abstracts
MSc participants of the Hydroinformatics course are conducting research along the main lines of hydroinformatics. The duration of the MSc thesis part of the programme is normally from 6 months (sometimes extended to 7 or 8 months). Often MSc studies result in publications.
The list of participants (from 1992) and the titles of their MSc reports follows.
MSc graduation year 2010 (entered UNESCO-IHE in 2008)
| Name | Country | MSc thesis title |
| Mr. Kamruzzamamn Khan | Bangladesh | |
| Mr. Vladimir Moya Quiroga Gomez | Bolivia | |
| Mr. Pontien Nzeyimana | Burundi | Hydrological Modelling for Improved Flood Management in Ruvubu River Basin of Burundi |
| Mr. Ngandu Balekelayi | Congo | Operational optimization of water distribution networks using hybrid algorithms |
| Salomon Salumu Zahera | Congo | Modelling the seasonally flooded Inner Niger Delta for improving Wetland Management. |
| Mr. Mohamed Abdelhamid | Egypt | Sediment Transport Modelling In Simiyu Catchment of Lake Victoria Basin, Tanzania |
| Gizachew Demissie | Ethiopia | Integrated Sediment Transport Modeling Using SWAT-MOHID Models in Lake Tana Subbasin, Upper Blue Nile, Ethiopia |
| Seleshi Yalew | Ethiopia | Parallel Computation of large scale, high resolution Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) models on the Grid |
| Belayneh Temesgen | Ethiopia | Trade-off between hydropower and irrigation in Tana-Beles sub-basins, upper Blue-Nile Ethiopia |
| Padi Philip | Ghana | Flood frequency analysis in data-scarce areas |
| Anthony Gutu | Kenya | 1D-2D Hydrodynamic modeling of the Nyando Wetland for predicting spatial and temporal variations of flood inundation |
| Luis Metzger Terrazas | Peru | Real Time Flood Warning System for the Tumbes River in Peru using Remote Sensing |
| Ndekezi Francois-Xavier | Rwanda | Hydrological modelling of Nyabarongo River basin in Rwanda using combinations of precipitation input from meteorological models, remote sensing, and ground station measurements |
| Khalid Elnoor Ali Hassab Allah | Sudan | Model-based Optimization of downstream impact during filling of a new reservoir: Case study of Mandaya/Roseires reservoirs on the Blue Nile River |
| Tobias Oker | Uganda | Effects of climate change on the spatial and temporal transformation of wetlands: Case study on Nabajuzzi wetlands |
| Hamisi Matungulu | Tanzania | Comparison of different urban flood modelling approaches within the context of optimization of rehabilitation measures |
| Mwanaisha Hamisi Salum | Tanzania | Towards the methodology for capturing small-scale urban features into the coarse resolution 2D models |
| Shenglan Lu | China | Benthic Nitrogen Transformation in the Zenne River: Experimental and Modelling Approach |
| Xu Jia | China | Using Integrated Models and Flood Hazard Map for Flood Control of Yong-Ding River Basin in Northern China. |
| Xu Zheng | China | Application of Cloud Computing and Surrogate Model Approximators in Multi-objective Optimization of Urban Wastewater Systems |
MSc graduation year 2009 (entered UNESCO-IHE in 2007)
| Name | Country | MSc thesis title |
| Mr. S.K.L.S. Rupasinghe | Sri Lanka | Information Theory and Optimisation for Location of Sensors in Water Distribution Systems for Contaminant Detection |
| Mr. Oscar Hernández Murcia | Colombia | Analysis and Optimization of Chaotic Models for Storm Surge Prediction |
| Ms. He Liyan | China | Information Theory Applied to the Monitoring Network for the Magdalena River |
| Ms. Tang Yiyuan | China | Integrated Modeling of Flood Forecasting and Multi-reservoir-based Operation in Yellow River Basin, China |
| Mr. Wang Yuzhen | China | Water quality simulations for the Dommel Catchment of Noord Brabant Province |
| Mr. Samwel Zakayo | Tanzania | Multi-Objective Calibration of SWAT Model for Pesticide Simulations. |
| Ms. Hoang Nguyen Khanh Linh | Vietnam | Integrated Water Quality Modelling for implementing the Water Framework Directive: Case study: Grote Nete basin, Belgium |
| Mr. Yisehak Gebregziabher Bezabih | Ethiopia | Drought Assessment, Forecasts and Predictions under Climate Change Scenario In the Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia |
| Mr. Chu Kai | China | Process-based and Surrogate Modelling of Fine Sediment Transport in the Dutch Coastal Zone. |
| Ms. Chen Ying | China | Integrated Urban Wastewater System Modelling with Conceptual Surrogate Models |
| Mr. Samwel Zakayo | Uganda | Optimizing the operation of water distribution networks - A Case study of the Richmond Water Distribution System, U.K |
| Mr. Almatia Gunawan | Indonesia | Google Android Mobile Phone Application for Dissemination of Water Quality Information: Case Study of the Dommel Catchment, Noord-Brabant Province, The Netherlans. |
MSc graduation year 2008 (entered IHE in 2006)
MSc graduation year 2007 (entered IHE in 2005)
| Name | Country | MSc thesis title |
| Mr. Didier Haguma | Rwanda | Development of a hydrologic model of Kagera River basin using remote sensing data |
| Mr. J.C.W. Ediriweera | Sri Lanka | A GIS-based framework for urban flood modelling and disaster management |
| Mr. Jin Wei | China | Towards a Demonstrator of Flash Flood Warning System |
| Mr. Nguyen, K.T.P. | Vietnam | Flood Hazard Modeling in Thua Thien Hue Province, Vietnam |
| Mr. Dragan Tutulić | Serbia and Montenegro | Flood plain modelling with 1D and 2D models - A Case Study of St. Maarten N.A. |
| Ms. Rahel Tessema | Ethiopia | Agricultural drought assessment for Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia using SWAT |
| Mr. Cheng Peng | China | A Conceptual Model for the lower reach of Yellow River |
| Mr. B.B. Dhant | Nepal | Modelling Effects of Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Discharges on Receiving Environment |
| Ms. Dong Wu | China | Evaluation of the Flow Regime in the Lower Yellow River Delta, China |
| Mr. Hidayat | Indonesia | Application of Data-Driven Techniques in Semi-Distributed Hydrological Modelling |
| Mr. Huang Wei | China | Lugu Lake Ecological Impact Assessment Using Habitat model |
| Mr. Nagendra Kayastha | Nepal | Comparison of novel approaches to uncertainty analysis of hydrological models |
| Ms. Li Yujie | China | Water Quality modeling to deal with the environmental management of Lugu Hu in China |
| Mr. Ma Hui | China | Assessing the Ecological Environment around the Yellow River Delta Area by RS and GIS |
| Ms. Abrehet Mohammed Omer | Ethiopia | Remote Modelling and Knowledge Dissemination Across Internet |
| Mr. José A. Simmonds Sheppard | Panama | Hydrodynamic Modeling of Shalow Lakes: The Case Study of Edko lake |
| Ms. Flora Umuhire | Rwanda | Modelling tile drainage for agriculture, nature and water quality in Pike river watershed using SWAT model. Quebec – CANADA Project. |
| Mr. Wang, Li | China | Modelling of Cohesive Sediment Transport in the Maasmond Area |
| Ms. Xu Mengxi | China | Processing and Analysis of Remotely Sensed Images for Water Quality Monitoring Based on Computational Intelligence |
| Ms. Zhu Xuang | China | 3D Graphics and Virtual Reality Applications in Decision Support System |
| Mr. Arlex Sanchez Torres | Colombia | Towards a demonstrator of an urban drainage decision support system |
MSc graduation year 2006 (entered IHE in 2004)
MSc graduation year 2005 (entered IHE in 2003)
| Name | Country | MSc thesis title |
| Li Hong | China |
Harmful Algal Bloom prediction – |
| Gerald Corzo | Colombia | Rule-Based Committees of Data-Driven Models for Hydrological Forecasting |
| Solomon Seyoum | Ethiopia |
A generic software tool for OpenMI-compliant |
| Elona Abazi | Albania |
Modelling floods in wide rivers using Sobek 1D2D |
| BASHAR (Kazi Emran) | Bangladesh | "Floodplain Modelling in Bangladesh by SOBEK 1D2D Coupling System" |
| Emmanuel Tumwesigye | Uganda | Towards a new Business Model in Hydroinformatics: The Case of Urban Drainage Systems. |
| Ketama Mamo | Ethiopia | |
| Fernando W.A.Y.S | Sri Lanka |
MSc graduation year 2004 (entered IHE in 2002)
| Name | Country | MSc thesis title |
| Umboro Lasminto | ||
| Md. Manjurul Alam | ||
| Wang Fei | ||
| Joseph Marie Tchouani Nana | ||
| Javier Rodriquez Uthurburu | ||
| Sajia Zaman | Modelling Sediment Transport Rate within Submerged Vegetated Channel - a Data-Driven Approach. |
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| Evgeni Tsivtsivadze | Support Vector Machines: Implementation, Optimisation and Application in Hydroinformatics |
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| Mahesh MASKEY | Nepal |
MSc graduation year 2003 (entered IHE in 2001)
| Name | Country | MSc thesis title |
| Sun Yangbo | ||
| Wang Chunqing | ||
| Sisay | Real-Time Decision Support System for Flood Management |
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| Liu Huawu | Drought Analysis and Drought Early Warning for the Heihe River Basin in China |
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| Jervis | ||
| Khan | Remote Sensing And Advanced Data Mining Techniques for Prediction of Bank Erosion and Understanding the Inter Tidal Phenomenon |
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| Ayub Ali | Application of Advanced Numerical Modelling for Understanding of Complex Morphological Behaviour in Meghna Estuary |
MSc graduation year 2002 (entered IHE in 2000)
| Name | Country | MSc thesis title |
| Belay Melkamu Geleta | Ethiopia | |
| Craig Mackay | New Zealand | |
| Do Duc Ding | Viet Nam | |
| Khada Nanda Dulal | Nepal | Application of Data-driven Techniques in Hydrological Modelling |
| Le Hoang Anh | Viet Nam | Decision Support System for Irrigation Management in Vietnam |
| Matthew R.J. Turner | Australia | Remote Sensing and Numerical Modelling of Suspended Sediment |
| Mokaisin Mutazz | Palestine | Complementing conceptual rainfall runoff modelling with ANNS |
| Phan Thi Huong | Viet Nam | |
| D. L. Shrestha | Nepal |
MSc graduation year 2001 (entered IHE in 1999)
MSc graduation year 2000 (entered IHE in 1998)
| Name | Country | MSc thesis title |
| Weeratunga | Sri Lanka | Uncertainty in modelling of water distribution networks for demand management and leakage control |
| C. Rojas Pupo | Cuba | Application of Data Mining Techniques and Chaos Theory for Surge Water Level Predictions |
| Mulugeta Tefera | Ethiopia | Application of Internet technologies in distance learning and remote modelling |
| Wu | China | Leakage Risk Assessment of Pipe Network |
| Yu | China | |
| Y. Morales | Investigation of Data Mining techniques in a context of Reservoir Operation |
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| Chen | China | Cellular automata for ecological modelling |
| Kazi | Bangladesh | Effect of spatial grain size variations on morphology of straight alluvial channel |
| J. Alfonso Ordas | Cuba | Java based user interfase for a control module for morphological model |
| Emad El-Gammal | Egypt | |
| B. Bhattacharya | India | Machine Learning in Real Time Control of Regional Water Systems |
MSc graduation year 1999 (entered IHE in 1997)
| Name | Country | MSc thesis title |
| Alfonso Fleites | Cuba | |
| Amr El Safty | Egypt | Application of Data driven Methods for flood forecasting |
| Bunchingiv Bazartseren | Mongolia | |
| Maxwell Dickson | Zimbabwe | Using GIS and Internet technologies for solving water resources management problems in Zimbabwe |
| Ririn Erinawati | Indonesia | Development of two dimensional finite element and finite volume-based code for groundwater flow modelling |
| R Gopakumar | India | |
| Huang Yan | China | |
| Dyah Indriana Kusumastuti | Indonesia | Application of data driven modelling techniques to rainfall-runoff in natural catchment |
| Shreedhar Maskey | Nepal | |
| Petronella Apiyo Ogut | Kenya | |
| S. M. Mahbubur Rahman | Bangladesh | Analysis and prediction of chaotic timeseries |
| Ahmed H.A. Daoud | Egypt | Sediment Transport Modeling for Dredging Management at Port Said |
MSc graduation year 1998 (entered IHE in 1996)
| Name | Country | MSc thesis title |
| Abebe Andualem Jemberie | Ethiopia | Application of fuzzy logic for knowledge representation in hydroinformatics |
| Mohamed Ahmed | Egypt | |
| Dilip Kumar Gautam | Nepal | |
| Chaitanya Kalia | India | |
| Thai Gia Khanh | Vietnam | |
| Jamal Samedov | Turkmenistan | A Lagrangian-Eulerian approach to two-dimensional numerical modelling |
| Rezar Shehu | Albania | Different strategies in automatic calibration of rainfall-runoff models |
| Slavco Velickov | Macedonia | |
| Oswaldo Proano Santos | Ecuador | |
| Zea – ul - Hoque | Bangladesh | An environmental impact assessment system for small–scale water resource development in Bangladesh |
MSc graduation year 1997 (entered IHE in 1995)
| Name | Country | MSc thesis title |
| Yonas Dibike | Ethiopia | |
| K Sharma | Nepal | Integration tool for groundwater modelling: use of object and visual component programming |
| A R Perrino | Italy | |
| M M G S Fernando | Sri Lanka | The influence of different boundary conditions for Kalman filtering in hydrodynamic models |
| Shawkat Ali | Bangladesh | |
| S Fernandez Concepcion | Cuba | |
| Lee, Hangoo | Korea | Optimal reservoir operation for flood control using a hybrid modelling approach |
MSc graduation year 1996 (entered IHE in 1994)
| Name | Country | MSc thesis title |
| Constantinescu | Romania | Calibration of hydrodynamic numerical models using global optimisation techniques |
| Simic | Croatia | |
| Sanchez | Peru | Neural network modelling of total horizontal force on vertical breakwaters |
| Shen | China | |
| Roa | Philippines | Quality control support module for hydrological-hydrometeorological data |
MSc graduation year 1995 (entered IHE in 1993)
| Name | Country | MSc thesis title |
| Tan, Tien Ser | Singapore | Development of a real-time optimal control system for drainage using an object-oriented approach |
| Canizares Torre | Spain | Data assimilation and parameter estimation in a 2D advection-dispersion model |
| Wilson | New Zealand | A classifier system for the control of an urban drainage network |
| Hoang Thi Minh Hong | Vietnam | Hydraulic resistance of flexible roughness |
| Masood-Ul-Hassan | Bangladesh | Real-time control of hydraulic structures: predictive control using artificial neural networks |
| Nada | Egypt | |
| Avila Torres | Venezuela | Optimising the Apure river basin reservoir system using a multi-model approach |
MSc graduation year 1994 (entered IHE in 1992)
| Name | Country | MSc thesis title |
| Banijamali | Iran | A finite difference model for simulation of short wave behaviour |
| Bogale | Ethiopia | |
| El-Serafy | Egypt | Two dimensional vertical modelling of salt intrusion in partially mixed estuaries |
| Mansour | Egypt | Improvement of cavitation and fluid-structure interaction modelling in water hammer computations |
| Vodslon | Czech Republic | Validation of the one-dimensional modelling system SOBEK |
| Wu | China |
MSc graduation year 1993 (entered IHE in 1991)
| Name | Country | MSc thesis title |
| Garcia, H M | Cuba | |
| Ingeduld, P | Czech Republic | |
| Marazzi, M L | Argentina | Coupling a GIS with a 1-D hydrodynamic river model |
| Metelka, T | Czech Republic | Particle image velocimetry |
| Rasul, A Z E | Bangladesh | Neural network application in hydraulic structure operation for optimal flood management |
| Savioli, J | Argentina |