ProfessorIvan Stoianov
Professor of Water Systems Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
Orcid identifier0000-0003-0600-2894 (opens in a new tab)
- Professor of Water Systems EngineeringDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
- 020 7594 6035 (Work)
- 408, Skempton Building, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
BIO
I am Professor of Water Systems Engineering at Imperial College London and a Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellow in Dynamically Adaptive Water Supply Networks (RCSRF2324-17-41; Nov 2023 – Oct 2028), supported by Anglian Water Services and CLA-VAL UK.
Through my RAEng Fellowship, I am developing and experimentally validating fundamental scientific methods for the design, optimisation and control of next-generation resilient water supply networks that dynamically adapt their connectivity (topology), hydraulic conditions and operational objectives. Such networks can adjust their state in response to changes in operational conditions, performance objectives, demand growth, and failures. They represent a new category of cyber-physical systems that integrate physical processes with computational control to achieve dynamic adaptability, resilience, efficiency and sustainability.
My research is supported by Anglian Water, Cla-Val, Bristol Water and ATi/Badger Meter. Previous collaborators include Severn Trent Water, Essex and Suffolk Water, Thames Water, NEC, Intel Research, SAP and ABB.
I founded and lead InfraSense Labs, a cross-disciplinary research group. I was the Principal Investigator for the NEC–Imperial Smart Water Systems Project (2012–2016). Before joining Imperial, I worked as a Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, US), where, in collaboration with Intel Research, I developed and deployed novel wireless sensor network technologies for real-time monitoring of water distribution and sewer systems in Boston.
In 2010, I was awarded the Telford Gold Medal by the Institution of Civil Engineers, together with colleagues from Imperial and Cambridge, for our paper “Wireless Sensor Networks: Creating ‘Smart Infrastructure’” published in the ICE Proceedings – Civil Engineering (August 2009).
In technology transfer, I co-founded Inflowmatix Ltd with Dr Asher Hoskins (a former PhD student), raising over £9 million in venture capital with the support of Imperial Innovations. Inflowmatix is a spin-out from my research on monitoring and analysing dynamic hydraulic conditions in water networks, enabling utilities to continuously diagnose fluid dynamics to reduce bursts, operating costs and modelling uncertainty.
At Imperial, I teach across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. My modules include Water and Wastewater Engineering (CI4-461), Water Supply and Distribution (CI-EE-27), Hydroinformatics (ENV3 & HEM3), and Computational Methods (CI1-121). I have supervised and completed fifteen PhD students and over ninety MSc dissertations on topics such as chlorine decay under steady and unsteady hydraulic conditions, dynamic hydraulics in multi-feed distribution systems (DMAs), pressure reducing valve performance, optimal pump scheduling for energy reduction, flow measurement accuracy under unsteady conditions, and spatial decision support for pipe break vulnerability assessment.
Through my RAEng Fellowship, I am developing and experimentally validating fundamental scientific methods for the design, optimisation and control of next-generation resilient water supply networks that dynamically adapt their connectivity (topology), hydraulic conditions and operational objectives. Such networks can adjust their state in response to changes in operational conditions, performance objectives, demand growth, and failures. They represent a new category of cyber-physical systems that integrate physical processes with computational control to achieve dynamic adaptability, resilience, efficiency and sustainability.
My research is supported by Anglian Water, Cla-Val, Bristol Water and ATi/Badger Meter. Previous collaborators include Severn Trent Water, Essex and Suffolk Water, Thames Water, NEC, Intel Research, SAP and ABB.
I founded and lead InfraSense Labs, a cross-disciplinary research group. I was the Principal Investigator for the NEC–Imperial Smart Water Systems Project (2012–2016). Before joining Imperial, I worked as a Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, US), where, in collaboration with Intel Research, I developed and deployed novel wireless sensor network technologies for real-time monitoring of water distribution and sewer systems in Boston.
In 2010, I was awarded the Telford Gold Medal by the Institution of Civil Engineers, together with colleagues from Imperial and Cambridge, for our paper “Wireless Sensor Networks: Creating ‘Smart Infrastructure’” published in the ICE Proceedings – Civil Engineering (August 2009).
In technology transfer, I co-founded Inflowmatix Ltd with Dr Asher Hoskins (a former PhD student), raising over £9 million in venture capital with the support of Imperial Innovations. Inflowmatix is a spin-out from my research on monitoring and analysing dynamic hydraulic conditions in water networks, enabling utilities to continuously diagnose fluid dynamics to reduce bursts, operating costs and modelling uncertainty.
At Imperial, I teach across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. My modules include Water and Wastewater Engineering (CI4-461), Water Supply and Distribution (CI-EE-27), Hydroinformatics (ENV3 & HEM3), and Computational Methods (CI1-121). I have supervised and completed fifteen PhD students and over ninety MSc dissertations on topics such as chlorine decay under steady and unsteady hydraulic conditions, dynamic hydraulics in multi-feed distribution systems (DMAs), pressure reducing valve performance, optimal pump scheduling for energy reduction, flow measurement accuracy under unsteady conditions, and spatial decision support for pipe break vulnerability assessment.
FACULTY
- Faculty of Engineering
POSITION NAME
- Professor of Water Systems Engineering