Hello, I am అభిరామ్‌ ముళ్ళపూడి (Abhiram Mullapudi). I build digital water systems. Akin to autonomous cars, these digital water systems autonomously monitor and operate themselves to "squeeze" more performance out of our physical water networks and create resilient water infrastructure. I work as a Senior Data Scientist at Xylem. At Xylem, I design machine learning-based analytical methodologies, develop software infrastructure, and build wireless sensor networks to help cities and utilities better manage their water infrastructure. I have a Ph.D. in intelligent infrastructure systems from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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Publications

Identification of stormwater control strategies and their associated uncertainties using Bayesian Optimization

Abhiram Mullapudi, Branko Kerkez

In preparation, 2023

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Bayesian optimization is a automated data-driven approach for identifying a control strategy that achieves the desired response from the stormwater network.

pystorms : Simulation sandbox for the evaluation and design of stormwater control algorithms

Sara P. Rimer, Abhiram Mullapudi, Sara C. Troutman, Gregory Ewing, Jeffrey M. Sadler, Bryant E. McDonnell, Ruben Kertesz, Jonathan L. Goodall, Jon M. Hathaway, Branko Kerkez

Environmental Modelling and Software, 2023

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pystorms provides a curated collection of stormwater control scenarios to enable the development and quantitative comparison of stormwater control algorithms.

Improvement of phosphorus removal in bioretention cells using real-time control

Brooke E. Mason, Abhiram Mullapudi, Cyndee L. Gruden, Branko Kerkez

Urban Water Journal, 2022

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Real-time control improves the nutrient capture efficiency of bioretention cells, and thus reducing the size of bioretention cells needed for nutrient removal.

StormReactor: An open-source Python package for the integrated modeling of water quality and water balance

Brooke E. Mason, Abhiram Mullapudi, Branko Kerkez

Environmental Modelling and Software, 2021

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StormReactor is a python package for updating pollutant concentrations in EPA-SWMM durng simulations.

PySWMM : The Python Interface to Stormwater Management Model (SWMM)

Bryant E. McDonnell, Katherine Ratliff, Michael E. Tryby, Jennifer Jia Xin Wu, Abhiram Mullapudi

Journal of Open Source Software, 2020

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pyswmm is a python wrapper for interfacing with US EPA's Stormwater Management Model.

Deep Reinforcement Learning for the Real Time Control of Stormwater Systems

Abhiram Mullapudi, Matthew J. Lewis, Cyndee L. Gruden, Branko Kerkez

Advances in Water Resources, 2020

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Reinforcement learning can be used for creating autonomous stormwater systems that can dynamically change their behavior based on the state of the watershed for achieving system scale objectives.

rrcf : Implementation of the Robust Random Cut Forest algorithm for anomaly detection on streams

Matt D. Bartos, Abhiram Mullapudi, Sara C. Troutman

Journal of Open Source Software, 2019

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Anomalies in the streaming data can be detected by estimating the shift in the structure of the random forest caused by the addition of a new data point.

Shaping streamflow using a real-time stormwater control network

Abhiram Mullapudi, Matt D. Bartos, Brandon P. Wong, Branko Kerkez

Sensors, 2018

paper

Response of a stormwater network can be precisely shaped with the data from a wireless sensor network.

Building a theory for smart stormwater systems

Abhiram Mullapudi, Brandon P. Wong, Branko Kerkez

Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology, 2017

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By re-imagining physical watersheds as a network of interconnected systems, they can be dynamically reconfigured in real-time to target the removal of specific pollutants.