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Principal Investigators at MIT and Collaborators in Singapore:

MIT	Singapore
Andrew J. Whittle: Lead PI E. Eric Adams George Barbastathis Elfatih A. B. Eltahir Dara Entekhabi Charles F. Harvey V. Judson Harward Harold F. Hemond Franz S. Hover John Leonard Steven R. Lerman Ole S. Madsen Leslie Norford Nicholas M. Patrikalakis Paola Rizzoli Peter Shanahan Michael S. Triantafyllou	Adams, Martin David Chan, Eng Soon Cheong, Hin Fatt Chitre, Mandar A. Chua, Hock Chye Lloyd Koh, Tieh-Yong Law, Wing-Keung Adrian Lim, Hock Beng Lo, Yat-Man Edmond Miao, Jianmin Mueller-Wittig, Karl Wolfgang Roth, Matthias Seah, Harry Shuy, Eng Ban Wijesoma, Wijerupage Sardha Wittkopf, Stephen K. Wong, Nyuk Hien

Senior Staff and Postdocs:

MIT	Singapore
Research Scientists: Wonjoon Cho Lewis Girod Research Associates: Jun Wei Postdoctoral Associates: Sai Ravela Alfred Tan ... to be added ...	Program Manager: David Burke Research Engineers: Chee Wee Tan Ruoqian Wang Postdoctoral Associates: Tirtha Bandyopadhyay Alex Cobb Peifeng Ma Ami Preis ... to be added ...

Graduate Students:

MIT	Singapore
Charlie Ambler Julie Chalfant Jose A. Dominguez-Caballero Vicente Fernandez Terianne Hall Stephen Hou Satoshi Takahashi Laura Waller ... to be added ...	Rebecca Gianotti Kam Shing Leung Rebecca Neumann ... to be added ...

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Ami Preis

Postdoctoral Associate
S16-05-08, 3 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117543
Tel: +65-6516-1975, Fax: +65-6778-5654, E-mail: amipreis@smart.mit.edu

Academic Preparation:

• PhD. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, 2008
• MSc. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, 2004
• BSc. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, 2000

Appointments:

• 2008-Present: Postdoctoral Associate, CENSAM, SMART Center
• 2007-2008: Research Associate, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
• 2000-2001: Civil engineer, Isotop, Ashdod Israel

Honors:

• The Miriam and Aaron Gutwirth Memorial Scholarship for excellence, 2006
• Excellence in Teaching Award, Technion, 2002

Four Recent Publications:

• Preis A. and Ostfeld A, (2008). "Multiobjective Contaminant Warning System Design for Water Networks." Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management Division, ASCE, Vol. 134, No. 4
• Preis, A. and Ostfeld, A, (2008). "A coupled model tree-genetic algorithm scheme for flow and water quality predictions in watersheds," Journal of Hydrology , Vol. 349, Issue: 3-4, 364-375
• Preis, A. and Ostfeld, A. (2007) "A contamination source identification model for water distribution system security", Engineering Optimization, 39:8, 941-947
• Preis, A. & Ostfeld, A, (2006), "Contamination Source Identification in Water Systems: a Model-Trees - Linear-Programming Scheme", Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management Division, ASCE, Vol. 132, No. 4, 263-273

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