Dr. Pesantez joined the California State University Fresno Department of Civil and
Geomatics Engineering in August 2022. He graduated with a B.S. in Civil Engineering
at the University of Cuenca, Ecuador (2010), and obtained a Master in Construction
Management at the University of the Armed Forces (ESPE), Ecuador (2014). He holds
an M.S. (2017) and a Ph.D. (2021) in Civil Engineering from North Carolina State University.
Before joining Fresno State, Dr. Pesantez worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate
at the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of the University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. Pesantez teaches water resources engineering- and management-related courses,
including Hydraulics, Hydraulics Lab, and Engineering Construction I. His scientific
contributions have been recognized as the Editor's Choice of the Month by the American Society of Civil Engineers Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management.
- Water Distribution Systems (WDS) Analysis
- Demand Management Models
- Machine Learning for Urban Infrastructure Analysis
- Leak Detection in WDS
- Hydraulics of Piped Systems
- Pesantez, J.E., Behr, A., and Sciaudone, E. (forthcoming) Importance of pre-storm morphological
factors in determination of coastal highway vulnerability. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
- Fasaee, M.A.K., Pesantez, J., Pieper, K., Ling, E., Benham, B., Edwards, M., and Berglund, E. (2022) Developing
Early Warning Systems to Predict Water Lead Levels in Tap Water for Private Systems.
Water Research, 118787
- Berglund, E., Buchberger, S., Cunha, M., Faust, K., Giacomoni, M., Haxton, T., Goharian,
E., Kaminsky, J., Kleiner, Y., Lee, J., Ostfeld, A., Pesantez, J., Saldarriaga, J., Shafiee, E., Spearing, L., van Zyl, K., and Yang, E. (2022). Effects
of the COVID-19 pandemic on water utility operations and vulnerability. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 148(6), 04022027, Editor’s Choice Collection Paper Award, June 2022
- Daniel, I., Pesantez, J., Letzgus, S., Fasaee, M.A.K, Alghamdi, F., Mahinthakumar, K., Berglund, E., and Cominola,
A. (2022) LILA: A High-Resolution Pressure-Driven Method for Leakage Identification
and Localization in Water Distribution Networks. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 148(6), 04022025
- Pesantez, J.E., Alghamdi, F., Sabu, S., Mahinthakumar, G., and Berglund, E. (2022) Using a Digital
Twin to Explore Water Infrastructure Impacts During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Sustainable Cities and Society, 77, 103520
- Ramsey, E., Pesantez, J., Fasaee, M.A.K., DiCarlo, M., Monroe, J., and Berglund, E.Z. (2020) A Smart Water
Grid for Micro-Trading Rainwater: Hydraulic Feasibility Analysis. Water, 2020, 12, 3075
- Berglund, E.Z., Pesantez, J.E., Rasekh, A., Shafiee, M.E., Sela, L., and Haxton, T. (2020) Review of Modeling Methodologies
for Managing Water Distribution Security. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 146(8), 03120001, Editor’s Choice Collection Paper Award, August 2020
- Pesantez, J.E., Berglund, and E., and Mahinthakumar, G. (2020) Geospatial and Hydraulic Simulation
to Design District Metered Areas for Large Water Distribution Networks. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 146(7), 06020010
- Berglund, E.Z., Monroe, J.G., Ahmed, I., Do, J., Khaksar, M., Noghabaei, M., Pesantez, J.E., Bardaka, E., Han, K., Proestos, G.T., and Levis, J. (2020) State-of-the-Art Review
Smart Infrastructure: A Vision for the Role of the Civil Engineering Profession in
Smart Cities. Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 26(2), 03120001
- Pesantez, J.E., Berglund, E.Z., and Kaza, N. (2020). Smart meters data for modeling and forecasting
water demand at the user-level. Environmental Modelling & Software, 125, 104633
- Pesantez, J.E., Berglund, and E., Mahinthakumar, G. (2019) A Multi-Phase Procedure to Design District
Metered Areas for Water Distribution Networks. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 145(8), 04019031
