IAHR is a proud supporter of the scientists of the future: the young professionals. The John F. Kennedy Student Paper Competition offers a platform for these brilliant undergraduate and postgraduate students to share their findings in hydraulics and water resources research. Over 120 papers were submitted to the IAHR Technical Committee on Education and Professional Development, who, after careful consideration, selected 10 finalists to present their work at the 40th IAHR World Congress in Vienna, Austria, on Tuesday 22 August from 9:30 to 11:00 am (Hall F1).

A panel consisting of two members of the IAHR Hydraulics Division; two members of the IAHR Hydro-Environment Division; a member of the IAHR Innovation and Professional Development Division; a member of IAHR Working Groups; and a member nominated by the IAHR Awards Committee will then provide feedback to the authors, as well as vote on the best papers. Winning papers are awarded a cash prize.

The finalists chosen to present their work at the 40th IAHR World Congress in Vienna are (in alphabetical order): 

• Husnain Tansar (Hong Kong, China) Implementation Strategies of Detention Tanks for Improving Drainage System Resilience

• Isa Ebtehaj (Canada) Identifying Bank Profile Shapes In Stable Channels Using  Machine Learning

• Kaihua Guo (Hong Kong SAR, China) Modeling and assessment of lateral grooved airport runway water film thickness

• Mahmoud Omer Mahmoud Awadallah (Switzerland) Dynamics of mesoscale fluvial habitats under various flow condition

• Marco Cordova (Peru) El Niño Impacts from Large to Local Scale on Peruvian Rivers

• Matthias Bürgler (Switzerland) Air-Water Flow Measurements on a Large-Scale Spillway Chute

• Mina Rouzegar (Canada) Experimental investigation of asymmetric border ice effect on sediment transport 

• Munawir Pratama (UK) Hydrodynamics Characterization of Montrose Bay: A Severely-Eroding Coast in East Scotland

• Yannick Marschall (Switzerland) On the Role of Free-Surface Treatment for Simulating Flow Past Submerged Obstacles

• Yunqiang Zhu (China) Preliminary results of vortex characteristics within channel confluence shear layers