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Monday, May 20th
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CT
Water Distribution System Design, Optimization, Operation & Maintenance, and Asset Management - I
Room: S 101 E
Moderator: Lina Sela, Ph.D. – The University of Texas at Austin
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
1:00 PM – 1:15 PM CT
499 - Optimizing Resiliency: A Framework for Resilient Water Systems
Room: S 101 E
Author (not presenting): Joel Knight
Co-Author: Saki Handa, P.E. – Optimatics, a SUEZ Company
Co-Author: Andrew Erikson
Co-Author: Ari Feldman
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
1:15 PM – 1:30 PM CT
155 - Conjunctive Optimal Design of Water and Power Networks
Room: S 101 E
Author: Tomer Shmaya (he/him/his) – Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Co-Author: Avi Ostfeld, PhD, D.WRE, F.EWRI, F.ASCE – Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Co-Author: Gal Perelman – Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
1:30 PM – 1:45 PM CT
156 - OWPF Solutions using Polyhedral and Conic Relaxations
Room: S 101 E
Author: Tomer Shmaya (he/him/his) – Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Co-Author: Avi Ostfeld, PhD, D.WRE, F.EWRI, F.ASCE – Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Co-Author: Filippo Pecci
Co-Author (not attending): Mashor Housh – Haifa University
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
1:45 PM – 2:00 PM CT
93 - Economic Model Predictive Control of Water Distribution Systems with Accelerated Optimization Algorithm
Room: S 101 E
Author: Saskia A. Putri (she/her/hers) – Lehigh University
Co-Author: Faegheh Moazeni (she/her/hers) – Lehigh University
Co-Author: Javad Khazaei (he/him/his) – Lehigh University
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM CT
261 - Landslide Pipe Criticality Analysis Linking Hazard and Social Vulnerability Data
Room: S 101 E
Author: Joseph Hogge – Sandia National Laboratories
Co-Author: David B. Hart (he/him/his) – Sandia National Laboratories
Co-Author: Katherine Klise (she/her/hers) – Sandia National Laboratories
Co-Author: Terra Haxton – US EPA
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM CT
Water Distribution System Data Analytics, System Operation, and Control - I
Room: S 101 B
Moderator: Jorge Pesantez – California State University, Fresno
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM CT
Water Distribution System Design, Optimization, Operation & Maintenance, and Asset Management - II
Room: S 101 E
Moderator: Juan Saldarriaga, M.Sc. (he/him/his) – Universidad de los Andes
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
186 - Optimizing Equitable Supply in Intermittent Water Systems: Conceptualizing the Supply Hierarchy using Volume-driven Demand Modeling
Room: S 101 E
Author: Greg Hendrickson – University of Texas at Austin
Co-Author: Lina Sela, PhD – The University of Texas at Austin
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
531 - Automated Estimation of Pump Characteristics and their use Within Engineering, Operations, and Maintenance
Room: S 101 B
Author: James Uber (he/him/his) – Xylem
Co-Author: Paolo Berizzi
Co-Author: S. M. Masud Rana
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM CT
81 - Smarter Pump Scheduling Can Improve Water Quality Dynamics in Distribution Networks
Room: S 101 B
Author: Salma M. Elsherif (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University
Co-Author: Ahmad F. Taha, PhD – Vanderbilt University
Co-Author: Mohamad Kazma
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM CT
492 - Validating a Methodology for Generating Water Infrastructure Network Models
Room: S 101 E
Author: Elias Zauscher (he/him/his) – North Carolina State University
Co-Author: Emily Z. Berglund, Ph.D. – North Carolina State University
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM CT
6 - Long-term Investment Modeling of Water Distribution Infrastructure
Room: S 101 E
Author: Bethany Dorian
Co-Author: Chancellor Johnstone
Co-Author: Christopher M. Chini, PHD, EIT – Air Force Institute of Technology
Co-Author: Takayuki Iguchi
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM CT
84 - Water Quality Controllability Metrics, Limitations, and Hydraulic Dependencies
Room: S 101 B
Author: Salma M. Elsherif (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University
Co-Author: Ahmad F. Taha, PhD – Vanderbilt University
Co-Author: Ahmed A. Abokifa, PhD – University of Illinois Chicago
Co-Author: Mohamad Kazma
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM CT
71 - Framework for Predicting Water Main Breaks in the Face of Climate Change
Room: S 101 E
Author: Melica Khashei
Co-Author: Ehsan Roshani, Ph.D., P.Eng., PMP. – National Research Council
Co-Author: Rebecca Dziedzic – Concordia University
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM CT
613 - A Greedy Search Algorithm for Closed Valve Analysis in Drinking Water Networks for Real-time Model Development
Room: S 101 B
Author: S. M. Masud Rana
Co-Author: James Uber (he/him/his) – Xylem
Co-Author: John McCary
Co-Author: Jonathan Keck
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
4:00 PM – 4:15 PM CT
68 - Improvement of Computational Efficiency of Rao-II for Water Distribution Network Design by Infusing Search Space Reduction and Self-Adaptive Penalty
Room: S 101 B
Co-Author: Laxmi Gangwani
Co-Author: Nikita Palod – Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology
Author: Rajesh Gupta – Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur
Co-Author: Shilpa Dongre
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
4:00 PM – 4:15 PM CT
437 - Synthetic Water Distribution Network Models: Challenges and Opportunities
Room: S 101 E
Author: Mikhail Chester, M.ASCE – Arizona State University
Co-Author: Ahmed Mustafa
Co-Author: Ian Searles
Co-Author: Jason W. Poff (he/him/his) – Oregon State University
Co-Author: Katherine Klise (she/her/hers) – Sandia National Laboratories
Co-Author: Kirk Bonney (they/them/theirs) – Sandia National Laboratories
Co-Author: Rajan Jain
Co-Author: Ryan Sparks
Co-Author: Samuel J. Rivera, Ph.D. – Oregon State University
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
4:45 PM – 6:15 PM CT
Water Distribution System Data Analytics, System Operation, and Control - II
Room: S 101 B
Moderator: Rebecca Dziedzic – Concordia University
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
4:45 PM – 6:15 PM CT
Water Distribution System Risk, Vulnerability, Reliability, and Resilience
Room: S 101 E
Moderator: Ahmed A. Abokifa, Ph.D. – University of Illinois Chicago
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
303 - Evaluating the Resilience of Hybrid Centralized and Decentralized Water Supply Systems
Room: S 101 E
Author: Sangmin Shin – Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Co-Author: Amrit B. Ghimire (he/him/his) – Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Co-Author: Binod Ale
Co-Author: Kriti Acharya
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
358 - State Estimation of Water Distribution Networks Using Virtual Measurements from Reduced Models
Room: S 101 B
Author: Meghna Thomas (she/her/hers) – The University of Texas at Austin
Co-Author: Lina Sela, PhD – The University of Texas at Austin
Co-Author: Matthew Bartos, Ph.D. – The University of Texas at Austin
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
5:00 PM – 5:15 PM CT
181 - Estimating Residential Outdoor Water Use with Smart Water Meter Data
Room: S 101 B
Author: Faisal M. Alghamdi, M.S. – North Carolina State University
Co-Author: Emily Z. Berglund, Ph.D. – North Carolina State University
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
5:00 PM – 5:15 PM CT
335 - Resilience-Based Recovery and Performance Modeling for Optimal Design of Water Distribution Networks
Room: S 101 E
Author: Oluwabunmi M. Iwakin – Lehigh University
Co-Author: Faegheh Moazeni (she/her/hers) – Lehigh University
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
5:15 PM – 5:30 PM CT
453 - Clustering Analysis in Water Distribution Systems for Enhanced Metering Infrastructure Retrofitting
Room: S 101 B
Author: Jorge Pesantez – California State University, Fresno
Co-Author: Alessandro Toledo Salazar
Co-Author: Avi Ostfeld, PhD, D.WRE, F.EWRI, F.ASCE – Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Co-Author: Fayzul Pasha – California State University, Fresno
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
5:15 PM – 5:30 PM CT
581 - Understanding the Impact of Pressure-driven Modelling in Computing Hydraulic Resilience of Water Distribution Network using Water Network Tool for Resilience (WNTR)
Room: S 101 E
Author (not presenting): Amit Sinha (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
Author: Barbara Lence, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
Co-Author: Sudhir Kshirsagar, PE, MASCE – Global Quality Corp
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
5:30 PM – 5:45 PM CT
291 - A Data Driven Approach for Resilience Analysis of Water Distribution Networks
Room: S 101 E
Author: Jason W. Poff (he/him/his) – Oregon State University
Co-Author: Katherine Klise (she/her/hers) – Sandia National Laboratories
Co-Author: Kirk Bonney (they/them/theirs) – Sandia National Laboratories
Co-Author: Mikhail Chester, M.ASCE – Arizona State University
Co-Author: Samuel J. Rivera, Ph.D. – Oregon State University
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
5:30 PM – 5:45 PM CT
504 - Conjunctive Operation of Water and Power Systems Under Uncertainty
Room: S 101 B
Author: Avi Ostfeld, PhD, D.WRE, F.EWRI, F.ASCE – Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Co-Author: Gal Perelman – Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
5:45 PM – 6:00 PM CT
543 - Leakage Detection and Localization in Water Distribution Networks Using Acoustic Sensors
Room: S 101 B
Author: Abhiram Mullapudi – Xylem Inc.
Co-Author: Ehsan Shafiee
Co-Author: Li Ye
Author (not presenting): Lu Xing
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Monday, May 20th
5:45 PM – 6:00 PM CT
578 - From Data to Resilience: How Hybrid Modelling Informs Decision-Making
Room: S 101 E
Author: Kirk Bonney (they/them/theirs) – Sandia National Laboratories
Co-Author: Ian Searles
Co-Author: Jason W. Poff (he/him/his) – Oregon State University
Co-Author: Katherine Klise (she/her/hers) – Sandia National Laboratories
Co-Author: Mikhail Chester, M.ASCE – Arizona State University
Co-Author: Samuel J. Rivera, Ph.D. – Oregon State University
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Tuesday, May 21st
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CT
Graduate Student Committee Panel Discussion
Room: S 102 C
Moderator: Tomer Shmaya (he/him/his) – Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Moderator: Lina Sela, PhD – The University of Texas at Austin
Panelist: Felipe Hernández, PhD (he/him/his) – Autodesk Inc.
Panelist: Katherine Klise (she/her/hers) – Sandia National Laboratories
Panelist: Sabrina Draude (she/her/hers) – The University of British Columbia
Panelist: Rebecca Dziedzic – Concordia University
Panelist: Ahmed A. Abokifa, PhD – University of Illinois Chicago
Panelist: Jonathan B. Burkhardt – US Environmental Protection Agency
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Tuesday, May 21st
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM CT
Advances in Water Distribution System Water Quality Modeling - I
Room: S 102 D
Moderator: Faegheh Moazeni (she/her/hers) – Lehigh University
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Tuesday, May 21st
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
150 - Calculation of Water Age Using Electrical Simulators
Room: S 102 D
Author: Raman Balireddy
Co-Author: Anjan Chakravorty
Co-Author: Avi Ostfeld, PhD, D.WRE, F.EWRI, F.ASCE – Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Co-Author: Gopinathan R. Abhijith – Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Co-Author: Soumendra Nath Kuiry (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Madras (Tamil Nadu, India)
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Tuesday, May 21st
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM CT
365 - Investigating Premise Plumbing Flushing with 2D Random Walk Particle Tracking Approach
Room: S 102 D
Author: Jonathan B. Burkhardt – US Environmental Protection Agency
Co-Author: Garek Bushnell
Co-Author: William Platten III
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Tuesday, May 21st
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM CT
49 - Enhancing Modeling of Drinking Water Quality with Physics Informed Neural Networks (PINNs): Learning from incomplete Reaction Model and Incomplete Data
Room: S 102 D
Author: Matthew Frankel, MA – University of Texas at Austin
Co-Author: Enrico Schiassi
Co-Author: Lina Sela, PhD – The University of Texas at Austin
Co-Author: Mario De Florio
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Tuesday, May 21st
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM CT
268 - Adding Multispecies Water Quality Reactions to Resilience Modeling Tools
Room: S 102 D
Author: David B. Hart (he/him/his) – Sandia National Laboratories
Co-Author: Jonathan B. Burkhardt – US Environmental Protection Agency
Co-Author: Katherine Klise (she/her/hers) – Sandia National Laboratories
Co-Author: Terra Haxton – US EPA
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Tuesday, May 21st
4:00 PM – 4:15 PM CT
145 - Pressure Dependent Analysis of Water Distribution Networks Considering Different NHFRs at Different Nodes
Room: S 102 D
Co-Author: Rajesh Gupta – Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur
Author: Satyam Tiwari
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Tuesday, May 21st
4:45 PM – 6:30 PM CT
Advances in Water Distribution System Water Quality Modeling - II
Room: S 103 B
Moderator: Avi Ostfeld, Ph.D., D.WRE, F.EWRI, F.ASCE – Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Tuesday, May 21st
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
220 - Graph Neural Networks-Based Water Quality State Estimation in Water Distribution Networks
Room: S 103 B
Author: Aly K. Salem – University of Illinois at Chicago
Co-Author: Ahmad F. Taha, PhD – Vanderbilt University
Co-Author: Ahmed A. Abokifa, PhD – University of Illinois Chicago
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Tuesday, May 21st
5:00 PM – 5:15 PM CT
341 - Black-box Modeling of Disinfectants and Disinfectant By-products in Water Distribution Systems
Room: S 103 B
Author: Laura Gonzalez, MSc (she/her/hers) – Universidad de los Andes
Co-Author: Dominic L. Boccelli – The University of Arizona
Co-Author: Juan Saldarriaga, M.Sc. (he/him/his) – Universidad de los Andes
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Tuesday, May 21st
5:15 PM – 5:30 PM CT
115 - Physics-Informed Stacking Ensemble Machine Learning for Water Quality State Estimation in Water Distribution Systems
Room: S 103 B
Author: Mohammadreza Moeini – University of Illinois at Chicago
Co-Author: Ahmed A. Abokifa, PhD – University of Illinois Chicago
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Tuesday, May 21st
5:30 PM – 6:00 PM CT
359 - Analysis of the Chlorine Decay and Trihalomethanes Growth Sensibility to Different Body and Wall Coefficients and Decay Models in Optimal Minimum Cost Water Distribution Networks
Room: S 103 B
Author: Sergio Serrano Diaz
Co-Author: Juan Saldarriaga, M.Sc. (he/him/his) – Universidad de los Andes
Co-Author: Laura Gonzalez, MSc (she/her/hers) – Universidad de los Andes
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Tuesday, May 21st
6:00 PM – 6:15 PM CT
118 - Adaptive Chemical Mixing Resolution to Accelerate Water Quality Simulations without Accuracy Loss
Room: S 103 B
Author: Felipe Hernández, PhD (he/him/his) – Autodesk Inc.
Co-Author: Roger Ro (he/him/his) – Autodesk Inc.
Co-Author: Shawn Huang, PhD (he/him/his) – Autodesk Inc.
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Tuesday, May 21st
6:15 PM – 6:30 PM CT
69 - A Single-Phase Model Incorporating the Variance of Pipe Flow as Reliability Surrogate in Optimal Design of Water Distribution Networks
Room: S 103 B
Co-Author: Nikita Palod – Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology
Author: Rajesh Gupta – Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Wednesday, May 22nd
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM CT
Managing Water Quality in Distribution Systems
Room: S 101 D
Moderator: Jonathan B. Burkhardt – US Environmental Protection Agency
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Wednesday, May 22nd
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM CT
116 - State Estimation-Based Placement of Water Quality Sensors in Water Distribution Systems
Room: S 101 D
Author: Mohammadreza Moeini – University of Illinois at Chicago
Co-Author: Ahmed A. Abokifa, PhD – University of Illinois Chicago
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Wednesday, May 22nd
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM CT
197 - Reducing Information Overlap in Sampling Locations during a Contamination Event in Real-Size Networks
Room: S 101 D
Author: Camilo Salcedo (he/him/his) – The University of Arizona
Co-Author: Dominic L. Boccelli – The University of Arizona
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Wednesday, May 22nd
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM CT
55 - On Placement of Water Quality Sensors for Nonlinear Multi-Species Models in Drinking Networks
Room: S 101 D
Author: Ahmad F. Taha, PhD – Vanderbilt University
Co-Author: Mohamad Kazma
Co-Author: Salma M. Elsherif (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Wednesday, May 22nd
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM CT
344 - Residual Chlorine and Trihalometanes Analysis in Optimal Desings for Minimum Cost Potable Water Distribution Systems
Room: S 101 D
Author: Juan Saldarriaga, M.Sc. (he/him/his) – Universidad de los Andes
Co-Author: Daniel Álvarez
Co-Author: Laura Gonzalez, MSc (she/her/hers) – Universidad de los Andes
Co-Author: María González
Co-Author: Sergio Serrano Diaz
Co-Author: Valeria Rodríguez
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)
Wednesday, May 22nd
4:00 PM – 4:15 PM CT
147 - Robust Booster Disinfection Scheduling Using Non-uniform Mixing Water Quality Models
Room: S 101 D
Author: Sriman Pankaj Boindala – KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
Co-Author: Avi Ostfeld, PhD, D.WRE, F.EWRI, F.ASCE – Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Co-Author: Reza Yousefian
Co-Author: Sophie Duchesne – INRS
Co-Author: Robles Juliana
Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)