Luis Romero Ben

Luis Romero Ben is a Researcher at the Department of Automatic Control, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). His work focuses on advanced monitoring and control systems for water distribution networks, emphasizing real-time leak detection, data-driven methodologies, and sensor network optimization. He is affiliated with the IRI (Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial) research institute.

Key projects include:

• FUSAGUA (CSIC Project): Real-time sensor fusion for water leak monitoring (2025–).
• RUBIES (European Project): Pollution-based control of urban drainage systems (2021–).

Research interests revolve around:

• Hydraulic modeling and state estimation (e.g., Unscented Kalman Filters).
• Graph-based and machine learning techniques for anomaly detection.
• Optimal sensor placement using genetic algorithms and clustering.
• Comparative analysis of model-based vs. data-driven approaches.

Publications highlight contributions in leak localization algorithms, network resilience strategies, and interdisciplinary methods bridging physics-based models with modern data science.