Vladan BABOVIC



Associate Professor

Postal Address: Department of Civil and
  Environmental Engineering,
  National University of Singapore
  1 Engineering Drive 2, E1A 07-03
  Singapore 117576
Tel: (65) 6516 4929
Fax: (65) 6779 1635
Email: vladan@nus.edu.sg
Office: E1A 05-09


Biography

Dr Vladan Babovic is currently a Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. degrees from both UNESCO-IHE and Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands in 1995. In 2001 he has obtained a business degree at IMD in Lausanne (Switzerland). Prior to joining NUS, he was Head of Emerging Technologies at Danish Hydraulic Institute (1995-2002) and Senior Research Scientist at WL | Delft Hydraulics (2003-2005).

 

Positions Held

  • Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering (since 2005) and
    Director, Singapore Delft Water Alliance (since 2007)
    Adjunct Professor, Centre for EcoHydraulics Research, University of Idaho1998-present
    Adjunct Professor, IIHR-Hydroscience and Engineering, University of Iowa, 1999-present
    Visiting Lecturer, Hydroinformatics Programme, UNESCO-IHE, Delft, The Netherlands,
    1996-present
  • Senior Research Scientist
    WL | Delft Hydraulics, Delft, The Netherlands, 2004-2005
  • Partner and Chief Technology Officer
    Tectrasys AG, Wollerau, Switzerland, 2003-2005
  • Head of Emerging Technologies
    DHI Water & Environment, Hørsholm, Denmark, 1995-2003
  • Research Fellow in Hydroinformatics
    International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, IHE-Delft, Delft, The Netherlands, 1991-1995
  • Research Fellow
    Danish Hydraulic Institute, Hørsholm, Denmark, 1990-1991

Consultancy Projects

  • BMT - Jeppesen Marine Advisory Service
  • BMT Feasibility and Detailed Design of Singapore River Diversion, Mott Mac Donald
  • Proposed River Crossing near proposed MRT Station, ARUP

Qualifications

  • Double Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree from Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands and International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, UNESCO-IHE, Delft, The Netherlands
    Thesis: Hydroinformatics: Emergence, Evolution, Intelligence, 1991-1996
  • Programme for Executive Development
    International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2001-2002
  • Master of Science (M.Sc., cum laude) in Hydroinformatics International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, IHE-Delft, Delft, The Netherlands, 1990-1991
  • Diploma of Hydraulic Engineering (DipHE, cum laude) in Computational Hydraulics, International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, IHE-Delft, Delft, The Netherlands, 1989-1990
  • Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (Dipl. Ing, cum laude) Major in Hydraulic Engineering, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, (former) Yugoslavia, 1981-1986

Honours & Awards

  • 1999 — Arthur Thomas Ippen Award of the International Association for Hydraulic Research
  • 1998 — Talent Award of Danish Academy of Technical Sciences
  • 1997 — The Best Paper Award, Danish Hydraulics, 2nd International Software Conference
  • 1986 — Jaroslav Cerni Award as the best Civil Engineering graduate at the Faculty

Professional Activities

  • Member of Board of Directors and Chairman Water Committee, Dutch Chamber of Commerce, Singapore
  • Adjunct Professor, Centre for EcoHydraulics Research, University of Idaho, USA
  • Visiting Lecturer, Hydroinformatics Programme, UNESCO-IHE, Delft, The Netherlands
  • Member of Council of Authors of the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC)
  • Standing Member of Core Programme Policy Committee for Genetic Programming of the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC)

Editorial Boards

  • International Association for Hydraulic Research (IAHR)
  • American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
  • American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC)

Teaching Areas

  • Hydroinformatics
  • Water Resources Management
  • Systems Architecting
  • Real Options

Research Interests

  • artificial intelligence
  • machine learning
  • data mining and knowledge discovery
  • data-driven modelling
  • data assimilation
  • computational hydraulics
  • hydroinformatics

Selected Publications

  1. 2011, A real options approach to design and architech water supply systems using alternative water resources under uncertainty, Journal of Hydroinformatics, Vol. 14, Issue 1 (with S Zhang)
  2. 2011, An evolutionary real options framework for design and management large-scale projects and systems with multiple real options, Decision Support System, Vol. 51 (with S Zhang)
  3. 2010, Architecting a maritime domain protection system:, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering-ASCE (with Buurman J and Z Xu)
  4. 2010, Multi-step-ahead model error prediction using time-delay neural networks combined with chaos theory, Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 395, Issue 2010, pp. 109-116 (with Sun Y and E S Chan)
  5. 2009, Reducing risk through real options in system design: The case of architecting a maritime domain protection system, Risk Analysis, Vol 29, Issue 3, pp 366-379
  6. 2009, Introducing knowledge into learning based on genetic programming, Journal of Hydroinformatics, Vol. 11, Issue 3-4, pp 181-193
  7. 2009, Applying local model approach for tidal prediction in a deterministic model, International Journal for Numerical Method in Fluids, Vol. 60, Issue 6, pp 651-667 (with Sun Y, Piyamarn Sisomphon and ES Chan)
  8. 2009, Reducing risk through real options in systems design: The case of architecting a maritime domain protection system, Risk Analysis, Vol. 29, Issue 3, pp 366-379 (with Buurman, JJ G and X Zhang)
  9. 2009, Efficient data assimilation method based on chaos theory and kalman filter with an application in Singapore regional model, Journal of Hydro-environment research, Vol. 3, Issue 2, pp 85-95 (with Sun Y, Piyamarn Sisomphon and ES Chan)
  10. 2007, On inducing equations for vegetation resistance, Journal of Hydraulic Research, Vol. 44, Issue 5, (with J Rodrigues, M Baptist, M Keijzer, R Uittenbogaard, A Verwey and A Mynett)
  11. 2000, Genetic programming as a model induction engine, Journal of Hydroinformatics, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 35-60 (with Keijzer, M.)
  12. 2001, Neural networks as a routine for error correction of numerical models, ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Vol. 127, No. 3, pp. 181-193 (with Jensen, H.R., Klinting, A.K. and Canizares, R.T.)
  13. 1997, The evolution of equation from hydraulic data, Part I: Theory, Journal of Hydraulic Research, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 397 – 410 (with M.B. Abbott)
  14. 2001, Genetic programming and its application in real-time runoff forcasting, Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Vol. 37, Issue 2, pp. 439-451 (with Soon Thiam Khu, Shie-Yui Liong, Nitin Muttil and Henrik Madsen)
  15. 2004, EC-SVM approach for real-time hydrologic forecasting, Journal of Hydroinformatics, Vol. 6, pp. 209-223 (with Xinying Yu, and Shie-Yui Liong)
  16. 1999, Dimensionally Aware Genetic Programming, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Vol. 2, (with M. Keijzer)
  17. 1996, Emergence, Evolution, Intelligence: Hydroinformatics, Balkema Publishers, Book
  18. 1994, Calibrating hydrodynamic models by means of simulated evolution, Hydroinformatics '94. Proc. 1st international conference, Delft, 1994. Vol. 1
  19. 2002, A data mining approach to modelling of water supply assets, Urban Water, Vol. 4, Issue 4, pp 401-414 (with Jean-Philippe Drecourt, M. Keijzer and Peter Friss Hansen)
  20. 2007, On inducing equations for vegetation resistance, Journal of Hydraulic Research, Vol. 45, Issue 4, pp 435-450 (with M.J. Baptist, J. Rodriquez Uthurburu, M. Keijzer, R.E. Uittenbogaard, A. Mynett and A. Verwey)

Last Updated on 14 February, 2012 by Department of Civil and Environmental Enginering