Mario Castro Gama

Biography

Mario Castro Gama was born in Bogota, Colombia. He is a Civil Engineer (2003) form the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogota). Has a MSc in Water Science Engineering - Hydroinformatics from UNESCO-IHE (2012). Currently, he is a PhD research fellow in Chair Group of Hydroinformatics of IWSG Department, supervised by Prof. Andreja Jonoski and Prof. Ioana Popescu. His promotor is Prof. Dimitri P. Solomatine. He started his PhD in October 2012 and is also involved in an EU-FP7 project on ICT Solutions for efficient Water Resources Management (ICeWater).

Publications

Peer Reviewed

1. Castro Gama, M. et al. (2016) Modelling extreme flood events in the yellow river using unstructured grids. Transactions of the ASABE 59(1)129-143. DOI: 10.13031/trans.59.11324. link
2. Castro Gama, M. et al. (2015) Multivariate optimization to decrease total energy consumption in the water supply system of Abbiategrasso (Milano, Italy). Environmental Engineering and Management Journal 14(9)2019-2029. link
3. Pan et al. (2015) Application of web based decision support system in water distribution systems. Environmental Engineering and Management Journal 14(9)2087-2094. link
4. Castro Gama, M. et al. (2015) Towards increased water and energy efficiencies in water distribution systems. Environmental Engineering and Management Journal 14(6)1271-1278. link
5. Castro Gama, M. et al. (2015) Water distribution network model building, case study: Milano, Italy. Procedia Engineering. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry, CCWI2015. 119(2015)573–582. link
6. Castro-Gama M.E. et al. (2014) Flood inference simulation using surrogate modelling for the Yellow River multiple reservoir system. Environmental Modelling & Software 55(2014)250-265. link
7. Fantozzi, M. et al. (2014) ICT for Efficient Water Resources Management: The ICeWater Energy Management and Control Approach. Procedia Engineering. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry, CCWI2013. 70(2014)633–640. link
8. Castro Gama M. et al. (2014) Modeling the Inference between Upstream Inflow Hydrographs and Downstream Flooded Areas in a Reservoir Driven System. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 108(2014)207-218. link
9. Castro Gama, et al. (2013) Modelling extreme flood hazard events on the middle Yellow River using DFLOW-flexible mesh approach, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., 1, 6061-6092. Link

Proceedings

1. Pan, Q. et al. (2015) An Open Visualization Tool (openVT) For Mesh Based Water Models. Proceedings of the HIC2014. Paper 237. link
2. Castro Gama, M.E. et al. (2015) Model-Based Sectorization Of Water Distribution Networks For Increased Energy Efficiency. Proceedings of the HIC2014. Paper 233. link
3. Farnham, T. et al. (2013) ICT for Efficient Water Resources Management: the ICeWater architecture. Proceedings of 7th IWA International Conference on Efficient Use and Management of Water, Efficient 2013.  October 22-25. Paris, France.
4. Castro Gama M. et al. (2013) Use of Unstructured Grids for Flood Modelling of the Yellow River Downstream River Reach. Proceedings of 2013 35th IAHR World Congress [A11881]. Chengdu, China. link
5. Castro Gama, M., Popescu, I., Jonoski, A., (2013), Towards increased water and energy efficiencies in water distribution systems: challenges of the ICeWater project, Proceedings of the AIRO Winter 2013: Operational Research for Development, Sustainability and Local Economies, 27- 30 January 2013, Champoluc, Italy.
6. Castro Gama, M., Popescu, I., Li, S., Mynett, A., (2013), Flood management through reservoir operation: a statistical inference modelling approach, Proceedings of the AIRO Winter 2013: Operational Research for Development, Sustainability and Local Economies, 27-30 January 2013, Champoluc, Italy.

MSc. Thesis

1. Castro Gama M. et al. (2012) Development of an operation of reservoirs and flooding inference model : a case of study for the Yellow river. Thesis, Master of Science at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft. link 

Topic

Research Summary

Objectives

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

Research Interests

• Simulation and modeling of hydrosystems.
• Global optimization and stochastic search methods. Multi-objective optimization and constrained optimization.
• Visualization for multi-objective optimization results.
• Numerical methods for solution of PDE's.

Funding Source

•  EU-FP7 ICeWater project Web Site

Teaching

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

Supervision

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