2026 David L. Woodruff: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	37	2442	2168	1024	856	130	8139
Engineering and Technology	40	7169	6921	1951	1807	160	9969

Overview

David L. Woodruff is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Engineering, with a focus on Management Science and Operations Research, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Economics and Econometrics, Control and Systems Engineering, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

Their contributions span several interconnected topics including:

Risk and Portfolio Optimization
Optimization and Mathematical Programming
Advanced Optimization Algorithms Research
Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
Economic theories and models
Electric Power System Optimization
Energy Load and Power Forecasting

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Woodruff include:

Cell2Fire: A Cell-Based Forest Fire Growth Model to Support Strategic Landscape Management Planning (2021), published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
CONWIP Redux: reflections on 30 years of development and implementation (2021), published in International Journal of Production Research
Catastrophe insurance and flexible planning for supply chain disruption management: a stochastic simulation case study (2023), published in International Journal of Production Research
Assessment of wind power scenario creation methods for stochastic power systems operations (2020), published in Applied Energy
A parallel hub-and-spoke system for large-scale scenario-based optimization under uncertainty (2023), published in Mathematical Programming Computation

Woodruff has frequently collaborated with a number of other researchers, including:

Jean-Paul Watson
John D. Siirola
Carl D. Laird
Bethany L. Nicholson
William E. Hart

Publication venues where Woodruff has multiple contributions include:

International Journal of Production Research
INFORMS Journal on Computing
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Mathematical Programming Computation
Applied Energy

In addition to research articles, Woodruff has authored books in the field of optimization modeling:

Pyomo - Optimization Modeling in Python (2021), published by Springer International Publishing
Pyomo - Optimization Modeling in Python 3rd Ed. (2022), published by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Best Publications

CONWIP: a pull alternative to kanban

Mark L. Spearman;David L. Woodruff;Wallace J. Hopp

1454
Citations
Pyomo - Optimization Modeling in Python

William E. Hart;Carl Laird;Jean-Paul Watson;David L. Woodruff

1409
Citations
Pyomo: modeling and solving mathematical programs in Python

William E. Hart;Jean-Paul Watson;David L. Woodruff

1281
Citations
Identification of Outliers in Multivariate Data

David M. Rocke;David L. Woodruff

527
Citations
Progressive hedging innovations for a class of stochastic mixed-integer resource allocation problems

Jean-Paul Watson;David L. Woodruff

428
Citations
A class of stochastic programs withdecision dependent random elements

Tore W. Jonsbråten;Roger J.-B. Wets;David L. Woodruff

243
Citations
Progressive hedging and tabu search applied to mixed integer (0,1) multistage stochastic programming

Arne Løkketangen;David L. Woodruff

235
Citations
Introduction to Computational Optimization Models for Production Planning in a Supply Chain

Stefan Voß;David L. Woodruff

219
Citations
Obtaining lower bounds from the progressive hedging algorithm for stochastic mixed-integer programs

Dinakar Gade;Gabriel Hackebeil;Sarah M. Ryan;Jean-Paul Watson

214
Citations
Hashing vectors for tabu search

David L. Woodruff;Eitan Zemel

203
Citations
Computable Robust Estimation of Multivariate Location and Shape in High Dimension Using Compound Estimators

David L. Woodruff;David M. Rocke

182
Citations
PySP: modeling and solving stochastic programs in Python

Jean-Paul Watson;David L. Woodruff;William E. Hart

179
Citations
The stochastic vehicle routing problem, a literature review, part I: models

Jorge Oyola;Halvard Arntzen;David L. Woodruff

171
Citations
Modeling and solving a large-scale generation expansion planning problem under uncertainty

Shan Jin;Sarah M. Ryan;Jean-Paul Watson;David L. Woodruff

145
Citations
Solving the medium newspaper production/distribution problem

Michael G. Van Buer;David L. Woodruff;Rick T. Olson

143
Citations
Production planning with load dependent lead times

Julia Pahl;Stefan Voß;David L. Woodruff

132
Citations
Production planning with load dependent lead times: an update of research

Julia Pahl;Stefan Voß;David L. Woodruff

132
Citations
Toward scalable, parallel progressive hedging for stochastic unit commitment

Sarah M. Ryan;Roger J.-B Wets;David L. Woodruff;Cesar Silva-Monroy

132
Citations
Discrimination models using variance-stabilizing transformation of metabolomic NMR data.

Parul V. Purohit;David M. Rocke;Mark R. Viant;David L. Woodruff

124
Citations
Optimization software class libraries

Stefan Voß;David L. Woodruff

113
Citations
Mathematical Programs with Equilibrium Constraints

William E. Hart;Carl D. Laird;Jean-Paul Watson;David L. Woodruff

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Paul Watson Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

William E. Hart Sandia National Laboratories

Stefan Voß Universität Hamburg

Roger J.-B. Wets University of California, Davis

Teodor Gabriel Crainic University of Quebec at Montreal

David L. Martell University of Toronto

Guido Perboli Polytechnic University of Turin

Andrés Weintraub University of Chile

Carlito B. Lebrilla University of California, Davis

James D. McCalley Iowa State University

External Links

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