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Mario Castro Gama

Mario Castro Gama

Mario Castro Gama is a Civil Engineer form the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He has a MSc in Water Science Engineering - Hydroinformatics from IHE Delft. Currently, he is a PhD research fellow in Chair Group of Hydroinformatics of IWSG Department, supervised by Prof. Andreja Jonoski. His promotor is Prof. Dimitri P. Solomatine. He started his PhD involved in an EU-FP7 project on ICT Solutions for Efficient Water Resources Management (ICeWater). Between 2018 and 2021, worked as a Scientific Researcher at KWR Water Research Institute. Currently, working as senior Infrastructure Specialist at Vitens N.V. the largest drinking water company of The Netherlands, as part of their Water Expertise Center.

Topic

Hydraulic model based simulation and optimization of water distribution networks for energy consumption and water losses reduction

Publications

A complete list of publications can be found in Google Scholar.

Other information

Research Summary

Objectives

  • Reduction of energy consumption in pressurized systems.
  • Decision Support Systems (DSS) for operation of WDN.
  • Use of state of the art Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

Research Interests

  • Model-Based simulation of hydrosystems.
  • Global optimization and stochastic search methods. Multi-objective optimization and constrained optimization.
  • Visual analytics for multi-objective optimization (VAMOS). Link
  • Numerical methods for solution of PDE's.

Funding Source

Teaching

  1. Lecturer of Summer Course, Hydroinformatics modeling in MATLAB, 2016, IHE Delft, Delft, the Netherlands
  2. Lecturer of Summer Course, Hydroinformatics modeling in MATLAB, 2015, IHE Delft, Delft, the Netherlands
  3. Lecturer of Summer Course, Hydroinformatics modeling in MATLAB, 2014, IHE Delft, Delft, the Netherlands
  4. Lecturer of Modeling System Development in Matlab, Module 3, 2014, IHE Delft, Delft, the Netherlands
  5. Lecturer of Summer Course, Hydroinformatics modeling in MATLAB, 2013, IHE Delft, Delft, the Netherlands
  6. Lecturer of River Modelling with HEC-RAS, Module 8, 2013, IHE Delft, Delft, the Netherlands
  7. Lecturer of Summer Course, Hydroinformatics modeling in MATLAB, 2012, IHE Delft, Delft, the Netherlands

Supervision

  1. Simon Wambu (MSc Thesis April 2017) Master student of Hydroinformatics, Department of Integrated Water System and Governance, 2015-2017, IHE Delft. Model-based optimization of water transmission and distribution networks. Case study: Ahero-Kenya.
  2. Muhereza Hilary (MSc Thesis. April 2015) Master student of Hydroinformatics, Department of Integrated Water System and Governance, 2013-2015, IHE Delft. Pressure management in Water Distribution Networks using multiobjective optimisation techniques: the case of Naguru - Kampala, Uganda. 
  3. Xie Hongshuai. (MSc Thesis. April 2015) Master student of Hydroinformatics, Department of Integrated Water System and Governance, 2013-2015, IHE Delft. Model based optimization of pumping schedules in water distribution systems. Case study: water supply system of Milan.

Other projects

PRACE-HPC