ARTURO S. LEON, Ph.D., P.E.A. PROFESSIONAL PREPARATIONUndergraduate Institution(s): National University of San Cristobal de Huamanga, Peru, Civil Eng., B.S. (5 years program), 1996 National University of San Cristobal de Huamanga, Peru, Civil Eng., C.E. (Civil Engineer), 1998Graduate Institution(s): National University of Engineering, Lima, Peru, Hydraulic Eng., M.S., 2000 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Civil and Environmental Eng., Ph.D., 2007Postdoctoral Institution(s): University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, single and two-phase computational hydraulics,

optimization, experimental hydraulics, May 2007 to August 2009.

B. APPOINTMENTSAssistant Professor, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon

1/2011 - present

Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Dept., Boise State University, Boise, Idaho 9/2009 – 12/2010Post-doctoral Research Associate, Civil & Environmental Eng. Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois

5/2007 – 8/2009

Research Assistant, Civil & Environmental Engineering Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois

8/2002 – 4/2007

Staff Engineer, Knight Piesold Consulting S.A., Dept. of Hydrologic and Hydraulic Engineering, Lima, Peru

2000 –2002

Staff Engineer, COSAPI S.A., Dept. of Hydrologic and Hydraulic Eng., Lima, Peru 1998 – 2000

C. PRODUCTS Five products most closely related to the proposal:Leon, A. S., Kanashiro, E. A., Valverde, R., and Sridhar V. (2014) “Dynamic Framework for Intelligent

Control of River Flooding - A Case Study.” Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 140(2), 258–268.

Gibson, N. L., Gifford-Miears, C., Leon, A. S., Vasylkivska, V. S. (2014). “Efficient computation of unsteady flow in complex river systems with uncertain inputs.” International Journal of Computer Mathematics, DOI: 10.1080/00207160.2013.854336.

Chen D., Leon, A. S., Chen, Q., and Li R. (2014). “Optimizing operation of multi-objective reservoirs with ecological and environmental purposes: Application of a Pseudo Parallel Genetic Algorithm.” Water Resources Research, Under review.

Leon, A. S., Kanashiro, E., and Gonzalez-Castro, J. (2013). ”Fast Approach for Unsteady Flow Routing in Complex River Networks Based on Performance Graphs.” J. Hydraul. Eng., 139(3), 284–295.

Leon, A. S., Kanashiro, E. A., and Valverde, R. (2012). “Towards the intelligent control of river flooding. Harmonizing long-term objectives (e.g., irrigation, hydropower) with the flooding objective.” In proceedings of the XIX International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, June 17-21, 2012.

Five other significant products:Leon, A. S., Gifford-Miears C., and Gibson N. (2013). “A Framework for Propagation of

Uncertainty in River Systems”, Presented in the ASCE-EWRI World Environmental & Water Resources Congress, Cincinnati OH, May 19-22, 2013.

Gibson, N. L., Leon, A. S., and Gifford-Miears, C. H. (2012). “Toward Reduction of Uncertainty in Complex Multi-Reservoir River Systems.” SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Conference on Uncertainty Quantification, Raleigh, North Carolina, April 2-5, 2012.

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Leon, A. S., Valverde, R., and Gonzalez-Castro, J. A. (2012). “A robust, numerically efficient model for unsteady flow routing in topologically complex river networks.” In proceedings of ASCE-EWRI World Environmental & Water Resource Congress, Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 20-24, 2012.

Gomez, L.A., and Leon, A. S. (2012). “Improving the Computational Efficiency of the Hydraulic Performance Graphs for Unsteady Flow Routing in Complex River Networks.” 2012 Water Research Symposium, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, May 18, 2012.

Leon, A. S., Kanashiro E.A. (2010). “A new coupled optimization-hydraulic routing model for real-time operation of highly complex regulated river systems”, In proceedings of "Innovations in Watershed Management Under Land Use and Climate Change", ASCE-EWRI, August 23-27, 2010, Madison, Wisconsin.

D. SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIESi. REU Mentor: Have advised eight students up to date, including four females and two males from underrepresented groups.

ii. Broadening participation of underrepresented students (elementary to high school students) Served as instructor in a two-day interactive laboratory demonstration on “effects of dams in rivers”

for 50 girls in grades 6th to 12th as part of the Advocates for Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics (AWSEM) program (March 18-19, 2012).

Served as mentor for 6th to 8th grade Latino students during one week in the 4-H Latino Youth Development Summer Conference (2012, 2013).

iii. Instructor: Speaker of the short course “Modeling of flows in Combined Storm-sewer Systems” (4 hours) held at the ASCE-EWRI World Environmental & Water Resource Congress, Providence, Rhode Island, May 16, 2010.

iv. Philanthropic: Professional advisor of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) at Oregon State University Chapter since January of 2011; advising in the design of water distribution systems at various locations in Africa and Central America.

v. Creation of Open Source Software: Illinois Transient Model (ITM) , open-source software intended for simulating flow dynamics in

storm-water and combined sewer systems (CSSs). ITM is being used for the analysis of CSSs in cities like Chicago and Dallas, and internationally in countries like Switzerland and New Zealand.

OSU Rivers , open source code intended for the real-time control of complex regulated river systems, such as those that have multiple reservoirs, have multiple objectives and in which the flow dynamics of the system is of particular interest.

In total, I have developed over 10 computer models (http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~leon/Codes.html)

E. COLLABORATORS & OTHER AFFILIATIONSCollaborators and Co-EditorsProf. Mohamed Ghidaoui (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China), Prof. Nathan Gibson (Oregon State University [OSU]), Dr. Juan A. Gonzalez-Castro (South Florida Water Manag. District), Prof. Christopher Hoyle (OSU), Prof. Arthur Schmidt (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [UIUC]).

Graduate Advisors and Postdoctoral SponsorsProf. Marcelo Garcia (UIUC, PhD advisor and post-doctoral sponsor), Dr. Francisco Coronado (National University of Engineering, M.S. advisor).

Thesis Advisor and Postgraduate-Scholar Sponsor• Current Post-Doc: Duan Chen (Center for Eco-Environm. Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences)• Current advisees: Luis Gomez (Ph.D.), Yunji Choi (Ph.D.), Parnian Hosseini (Ph.D.), Julia Rask (M.S.)• Previous advisees: Akemi E. Kanashiro (M.S., Ausenco), Christopher Gifford-Miears (M.S., MWH)Total number of graduate students advised: 2 (graduated), Total number of postdoctoral scholars sponsored: 1

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