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Hydroinformatics

Part of Master Programme in Water Science and Engineering

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 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)

Name	Country	MSc thesis title
Ms. Yuqing Lin	China	Unstructured Cellular Automata for Harmful Algal Blooms Modelling
Mr Mijail Eduardo Arias Hidalgo	Ecuador	Enhancing the Delft BLOOM/GEM model using Remote Sensing data
Mr. Zhuo Xu	China	Integrated Urban Water Management: Modelling and Strategic Planning
Mr. Shenyang Li	China	Software System Requirements for Multi-reservoir-based Flood Control and Managementa case study for the Yellow River in China
Mr. Chen Pengxiao	China	Flood Hazard Analysis using GIS and Remote Sensing Data
Mr. Alain Bayavuge	Rwanda	GIS-based multi-objective management of drinking water quality in intermittent suppliesThe case of Kigali city, Rwanda
Mr. Manning Jasson Mwalwaka	Tanzania	Effects of Model Schematisation, Geometry and Parameter values on Urban Flood wave Approximations
Mr. Kibreab Amare Assefa	Ethiopia	Flood forecasting and early warning in Lake Tana sub Basin, Upper Blue Nile, Ethiopia
Ms. Ednah Kwamboka Onyari	Kenya	An Integrated modelling approach for flood hazard analysis and mitigation: A case study of Timis and Bega Basins, Romania.
Mr. Modathir Abdalla Hassan Zaroug	Sudan	Flood Analysis in the Blue Nile, a Case Study of Flood Simulation in Khartoum With Climate Change Scenarios
Mr. Sewagudde Sowedi	Uganda	A Hybrid Approach to Combine Physically Based and Data-Driven Models in Simulating Sediment Transportation
Ms. Qi Hui	China	Exploring Multi-Agent Systems in Aquatic Population Dynamics Modelling
Mr. Arsène Aimé Habyarimana Mukubwa	Rwanda	Modelling of Sediment Yield and Deposition in the Planned Rusumo Hydropower Reservoir Using SWAT Model
Mr. Ahmed Adel Saleh	Egypt	Uncertainty Analysis of Hydrological Models: Nzoia River Case Study
Mr. Florence Harald Mahay	Tanzania	Ecohydrology Study of Kirumi Wetland using Hydroinformatics Tools
Mr. Girma Yimer Ebrahim	Ethiopia	Hydrological Response of a Catchment to Climate Change, Case Study on Upper Beles Sub-Basin, Upper Blue Nile, Ethiopia
Mr. Almoradie Adrian Delos Santos	The Philippines	Hydroinformatics Geo-referenced Tools and Web Technologies for Flood Management. A Case Study in the Westerschelde, The Netherlands
Mr. Tseganeh Zekiewos Gichamo	Ethiopia	Embankment Failure Modeling using the HR BREACH Model: Uncertainty Analysis & Presentation Scenarios
Mr. William Niyonzima	Burundi	Hydrological Modelling of Wetlands in Nile River Basin Using Gis Based Techniques
Mr. Getnet Dubale Betrie	Ethiopia	Integrated Sediment Transport Modelling Using OpenMI (SWAT and SOBEK-RE) for the Blue Nile River Basin

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)

Name	Country	MSc thesis title
Mrs. Ani Sofini	Indonesia	Sediment Yield Assessment for Land Management using Hydrological Models and Bayesian Network
Mr. Abraha Adugna Ashenafi	Ethiopia	Flood modelling and forecasting for Awash river basin in Ethiopia
Mr. Chen Changjun	China	Novel methods for uncertainty analysis of hydrologic models
Mr. Alfonso Segura Leonardo	Colombia	Use of hydroinformatics technology for real time water quality management and operation of distribution networks. Case study of Villavicencio, Colombia
Mrs. Nor Azimah Binti Abdul Aziz	Malaysia	1D-2D Coupling Urban Flooding Model using radar data in Bangkok City
Mr. Ahmad Fikri Bin Abdullah	Malaysia	WebGIS Flood Information System
Mr. Chitranjan Kaushik	India	Urban Flood Modelling- A comparative Study for 1D and 2D models
Mr. Chiang Po	Taiwan of China	Novel Approaches in Optimization of Wastewater Systems Rehabilitation
Mr. Kenneth Muniina	Uganda	A hydrodynamic characterization/ modelling of a reservoir: Case study Yongdam Reservoir in South Korea
Mr. Wang Li	China	Dynamic Analysis of Water Resources Distribution in the Heihe River
Mrs. Zhao Yang	China	M issing Data Infilling for Rijnland Area
Mrs. Nayeema Nazneen Naz	Bangladesh	Urban Flood Warning System with wireless technology: Case Study of Dhaka City – Bangladesh
Mr. Mohammad Farhad Hossain Sarker	Bangladesh	Morphodynamic Equilibrium in a Discharge Dominated Alluvial Estuary
Mr. Shishir Koirala	Nepal	Water Conflicts and Resolution
Mr. Quinhua Ye	Bangladesh	Modelling of Cohesive Sediment Transportation, Deposition and Resuspension in the Haringvliet Mouth
Mr. Akthar	China	Flood Forecasting for Bangladesh with Satellite Data

MSc graduation year 2005 (entered IHE in 2003)

Name	Country	MSc thesis title
Li Hong	China	Harmful Algal Bloom prediction – a case study for Western Xiamen Bay, China.
Gerald Corzo	Colombia	Rule-Based Committees of Data-Driven Models for Hydrological Forecasting
Solomon Seyoum	Ethiopia	A generic software tool for OpenMI-compliant Ensemble Kalman Filtering
Elona Abazi	Albania	Modelling floods in wide rivers using Sobek 1D2D “a case study for the Elbe river”
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	A Demonstrator of a Mass-Customised Advice-Serving System
Fernando W.A.Y.S	Sri Lanka	Modelling Of Flood Wave Propagation Using Inverse Modelling

MSc graduation year 2004 (entered IHE in 2002)

Name	Country	MSc thesis title
Umboro Lasminto		Flood Modelling and Forecasting in the Surabaya River
Md. Manjurul Alam		Combined Data Mining and Numerical Modelling for Hydro-Morphological Analysis-Application to Bhola Island in Bangladesh
Wang Fei		Modelling Compound Channels with Sobek
Joseph Marie Tchouani Nana		Graded Sediment Transport Modelling
Javier Rodriquez Uthurburu		Evaluation of Physically based and evolutionary data mining approaches for modeling resistance due to vegetation in SOBEK 1D-2D.
Sajia Zaman		Modelling Sediment Transport Rate within Submerged Vegetated Channel - a Data-Driven Approach.
Evgeni Tsivtsivadze		Support Vector Machines: Implementation, Optimisation and Application in Hydroinformatics
Mahesh MASKEY	Nepal	Instance Based Learning in Hydrological Modelling

MSc graduation year 2003 (entered IHE in 2001)

Name	Country	MSc thesis title
Sun Yangbo		Heihe River Basin Water Resources Decision Support System
Wang Chunqing		Land Cover Classification From Remotely Sensed Imagery Using Computational Intelligence With Application to Heihe River Basin
Sisay		Real-Time Decision Support System for Flood Management
Liu Huawu		Drought Analysis and Drought Early Warning for the Heihe River Basin in China
Jervis		Graded Sediment Transport Modelling
Khan		Remote Sensing And Advanced Data Mining Techniques for Prediction of Bank Erosion and Understanding the Inter Tidal Phenomenon
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	Physically-based hydrological modelling and uncertainty analysis due to Digital Elevation Models in rainfall-runoff modelling
Craig Mackay	New Zealand	Extension of the SOBEK Rainfall Runoff Model
Do Duc Ding	Viet Nam	Optimal Reservoir Control for the Dong Nai River Basin
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	24-Hours in advance forecasting of water level and discharge on the Rhine and Meuse rivers in the Netherlands
D. L. Shrestha	Nepal	Application of Bayesian Networks in Hydroinformatics

MSc graduation year 2001 (entered IHE in 1999)

Name	Country	MSc thesis title
Y. Xue	China	Application of machine learning techniques to flood forecasting in the upper reach of the Huai river
J. Zeng	China	Hydrodynamic modelling and optimal flood control for the middle reach of the Huai river basin
C. Zhu	China	Application of ANNs to rainfall-runoff modelling in the upper reach of the Huai river basin
H. Zuo	China	Decision support system architectures for flood control management in the Huai river basin
L. Zhao	China	Web-based environmental supporting community of practice
K. Belbase	Nepal	Distributed rainfall-runoff modelling using a digital terrain model
Y. Abdel Latif	Palestine	Water distribution modelling with intermittent supply: sensitivity analysis and performance evaluation for Bani-Suhila City, Palestine
L. Wang	China	Artificial neural networks and model trees for reconstruction of missing data and runoff forecasting - applications to catchments in Salland, The Netherlands.
M. Kamal	Bangladesh	Determination of target water levels for the safety of hydraulic structures
H. Shaakeel	Bangladesh	Exploratory analysis of tidal current in the Maas channel
W. Barreto	Venezuela	Applications of data mining technologies to studies on morphological processes
E.H. Fernandez	Colombia	Modelling of Cauca River Using SOBEK
K. Kato	Japan	Pre-processing of cross-sectional data from GIS for the 1-D hydrodynamic river model SOBEK
V.H. Bojkov	Bulgaria	Runoff modelling with genetic programming and artificial neural networks
D. Fuhrman	USA	Data assimilation and error prediction using local models
N. Kansal	India	Application of artificial neural networks for carrying out scoping studies in urban pollution management projects
H. Chibuye	Zimbabwe	Integrated modelling tools for Cork urban water system
V. Yzocupe (entered IHE in 1989)	Peru	2-D hydrodynamic modelling in Paracas Bay, Peru

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	Multivariate Time Series Analysis of Chaotic system
Y. Morales		Investigation of Data Mining techniques in a context of Reservoir Operation
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	Decision Support System for The European River Flood Occurrence and Total Risk Assessment System (to be finalised)
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	Remote modelling using Delft 3D
Amr El Safty	Egypt	Application of Data driven Methods for flood forecasting
Bunchingiv Bazartseren	Mongolia	Use of artificial neural networks and fuzzy adaptive systems in controlling polders water level in the Netherlands
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	Seabed recognition using artificial neural networks
Huang Yan	China	Application of data driven methods for flood forecasting
Dyah Indriana Kusumastuti	Indonesia	Application of data driven modelling techniques to rainfall-runoff in natural catchment
Shreedhar Maskey	Nepal	Informatic tools in eco-hydraulics
Petronella Apiyo Ogut	Kenya	An integrated water management model for urban areas
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	Informatic tools for the hazard assessment of dam failure
Dilip Kumar Gautam	Nepal	Regressive neural networks for the modelling of time series
Chaitanya Kalia	India	Analysis and visualisation of three dimensional flow simulation: An approach with measurement comparison
Thai Gia Khanh	Vietnam	Sensitivity analysis of South China Sea model
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	The use of Internet technologies for hydroinformatics
Oswaldo Proano Santos	Ecuador	Evaluation of overflows from a sewer system computational model using auto-regressive neural networks
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	Use of artificial neural networks in model approximation
K Sharma	Nepal	Integration tool for groundwater modelling: use of object and visual component programming
A R Perrino	Italy	Non-linear principal component analysis technique using neural networks: learning dependencies in data series
M M G S Fernando	Sri Lanka	The influence of different boundary conditions for Kalman filtering in hydrodynamic models
Shawkat Ali	Bangladesh	Applications of self organising feature maps for the analysis of hydrological and ecological data sets
S Fernandez Concepcion	Cuba	Evaluation of Tcl and Tk toolkit through the development of a graphical user interface for a genetic algorithm
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	A decision support system for environmental assessment
Sanchez	Peru	Neural network modelling of total horizontal force on vertical breakwaters
Shen	China	Model and parameter analysis techniques
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	Wades: modelling system for water distribution networks
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	Design and implementation of a modelling system for water distribution network: An object oriented approach
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	Automatic model calibration by simulating evolution

MSc graduation year 1993 (entered IHE in 1991)

Name	Country	MSc thesis title
Garcia, H M	Cuba	Optimal real-time control of unsteady combined sewer flow
Ingeduld, P	Czech Republic	Elements of object-oriented simulators
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	Flow simulation with cellular automata