RESEARCH by Master of Science Participants
COURSE  Intro Background Objectives Participants Programme Subjects MSc

Masters topics

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 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 Missing 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

 

 

Theses