Dominic Boccelli

About

Dominic Boccelli is a professor and department head of civil and architectural engineering and mechanics at the University of Arizona. His research broadly focuses on urban water infrastructure, with specific emphasis on drinking water distribution systems. His work includes real-time modeling, contamination warning systems, and water quality issues related primarily to disinfectant dynamics and by-product formation. Prior to his current role, he was an associate professor at the University of Cincinnati, where he founded and directed the Interdisciplinary Water Cluster. Boccelli's research has been funded by notable agencies such as the National Science Foundation, the Water Research Foundation, the US Environmental Protection Agency, and the Binational Science Foundation. He has contributed to the field through various publications and has served on editorial boards of prominent journals. His academic background includes a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, along with master's and bachelor's degrees in environmental engineering and chemistry from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Cincinnati. His professional experience also includes roles at the USEPA and collaborations with CDC and other institutions.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Ecology
• Computer Security
• Environmental science
• Environmental planning
• Business
• Environmental resource management
• Telecommunications
• Environmental engineering
• Economics

Selected publications

• Net Zero Urban Water from Concept to Applications: Integrating Natural, Built, and Social Systems for Responsive and Adaptive Solutions

  ACS ES&T Water · 2020 · 25 citations

  Innovation in urban water systems is required to address drivers of change across natural, built, and social systems, including climate change, economic development, and aged infrastructure. Water systems are complex socio-technical systems that interact with biophysical systems to supply and reclaim water. We present a vision for enhancing urban water system resilience through a net zero urban water (NZUW) approach, which meets the needs of a given community with a locally available and sustain…

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• A Hybrid Data-Driven-Agent-Based Modelling Framework for Water Distribution Systems Contamination Response during COVID-19

  Water · 2022 · 19 citations

  Contamination events in water distribution systems (WDSs) are highly dangerous events in very vulnerable infrastructure where a quick response by water utility managers is indispensable. Various studies have explored methods to respond to water events and a variety of models have been developed to simulate the consequences and the reactions of all stakeholders involved. This study proposes a novel contamination response and recovery methodology using machine learning and knowledge of the topolog…

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• Parameter uncertainty with flow variation of the one-dimensional solute transport model for small streams using Markov chain Monte Carlo

  Journal of Hydrology · 2019-06-04 · 16 citations

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• Drinking Water Distribution System Network Clustering Using Self-Organizing Map for Real-Time Demand Estimation

  Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management · 2020-09-25 · 9 citations

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  Consumer demand estimation is a key step in real-time drinking water system (DWS) modeling used for demand forecasting, optimal operations, and water quality management. Consumer nodes in a DWS are generally clustered to reduce the number of unknown demands to be estimated from a limited number of measurement locations. A clustering methodology using the self-organizing map (SOM) is presented, which groups consumer nodes based on sensitivity of measurements to perturbations in the consumer deman…

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• Advancing a Net Zero Urban Water Future in the United States Southwest: Governance and Policy Challenges and Future Needs

  ACS ES&T Water · 2024-04-15 · 8 citations

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  The Colorado River supplies >40 million people in the United States Southwest with their daily water supply and is unable to meet the current demands. New approaches are needed to enhance sustainability and resilience. A net zero urban water (NZUW) approach meets the needs of a given community with a locally available and sustainable water supply, without detriment to interconnected systems and the long-term water supply. Transitioning to a NZUW future will require considerable modifications to…

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Recent grants

• Real-Time Distribution System Network Modeling and Fault Diagnosis

  NSF · $314k · 2009–2013

Frequent coauthors

• James G. Uber

  Xylem (United States)

  27 shared

• Mitchell J. Small

  Carnegie Mellon University

  14 shared

• Robert Janke

  Ohio Environmental Protection Agency

  13 shared

• Xueyao Yang

  First Hospital of Jiaxing

  12 shared

• Urmila M. Diwekar

  University of Illinois Chicago

  10 shared

• Dionysios D. Dionysiou

  10 shared

• S. M. Masud Rana

  Xylem (United States)

  9 shared

• Tian Qin

  Tianjin University

  8 shared

Awards & honors

• Best Research-Oriented Paper in the Journal of Water Resourc…
• Endevaour Executive Fellowship (2015)

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