The Donald R. F. Harleman Lectureship, to be given at the IAHR World Congress, recognises the early contributions to engineering hydraulics by Professor Harleman and focuses on two areas of IAHR endeavour: artificial intelligence (AI) in the context of water science and engineering, and ecohydraulics.

2025: Ricardo Vinuesa, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
>>Improving turbulence control through explainable deep learning

2023: ‪Gustau Camps-Valls, Professor and Researcher at the University of Valencia, Spain
>> Machine learning for earth and climate sciences

2021: Dr Steven L. Brunton, University of Washington, USA
>> Machine Learning for Scientific Discovery, with Examples in Fluid Mechanics