2026 William A. Kuperman: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	64	1600	1522	523	472	514	21896

Research.com Recognitions

2012 - ASA Gold Medal, Acoustical Society of America For contributions to leadership in underwater acoustics, mentoring generations of acousticians, and for service to the Society
2004 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For international leadership in the development and application of computational methods for ocean acoustics.

Overview

William A. Kuperman is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Engineering, focusing significantly on underwater acoustics and related fields.

The main fields of study for Kuperman include:

Earth and Planetary Sciences
Engineering

The subfields of their research encompass:

Oceanography
Ocean Engineering
Geophysics
Signal Processing
Civil and Structural Engineering

The primary topics addressed in their work include:

Underwater Acoustics Research
Geophysical Methods and Applications
Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems
Seismic Waves and Analysis
Speech and Audio Processing
Structural Health Monitoring Techniques
Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation

Kuperman has authored significant papers in major acoustics journals. Notable recent publications are:

"Multiple constraint matched field processing tolerant to array tilt mismatch," 2020, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
"Range-coherent matched field processing for low signal-to-noise ratio localization," 2021, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
"Moving source ocean acoustic tomography with uncertainty quantification using controlled source-tow observations," 2022, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
"Bistatic scattering of an elastic object using the structural admittance and noise-based holographic measurements," 2020, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
"Acoustic digital twin for passive structural health monitoring," 2022, JASA Express Letters

The frequent venues for Kuperman's publications include:

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
JASA Express Letters

The scientist collaborates regularly with a number of coauthors. Frequent collaborators are:

Franklin H. Akins
Jit Sarkar
Bruce D. Cornuelle
Simone Sternini
Alexis Bottero

Kuperman has been recognized with awards such as:

ASA Gold Medal from the Acoustical Society of America in 2012, for leadership in underwater acoustics, mentoring, and service
Membership in the National Academy of Engineering in 2004, for international leadership in computational methods for ocean acoustics

Best Publications

Computational Ocean Acoustics

Finn B. Jensen;William A. Kuperman;Michael B. Porter;Henrik Schmidt

5373
Citations
An overview of matched field methods in ocean acoustics

A.B. Baggeroer;W.A. Kuperman;P.N. Mikhalevsky

1192
Citations
Phase conjugation in the ocean: Experimental demonstration of an acoustic time-reversal mirror

W. A. Kuperman;William S. Hodgkiss;Hee Chun Song;T. Akal

861
Citations
Computational Ocean Acoustics

F. B. Jensen;W. A. Kuperman;M. B. Porter;H. Schmidt

750
Citations
Extracting time-domain Green's function estimates from ambient seismic noise

Karim G. Sabra;Peter Gerstoft;Philippe Roux;W. A. Kuperman

729
Citations
Surface wave tomography from microseisms in Southern California

Karim G. Sabra;Peter Gerstoft;Philippe Roux;W. A. Kuperman

703
Citations
Matched field processing: source localization in correlated noise as an optimum parameter estimation problem

A. B. Baggeroer;W. A. Kuperman;Henrik Schmidt

686
Citations
Ambient noise cross correlation in free space: theoretical approach.

Philippe Roux;Karim G. Sabra;W. A. Kuperman;Andre Roux

556
Citations
An initial demonstration of underwater acoustic communication using time reversal

G.F. Edelmann;T. Akal;W.S. Hodgkiss;Seongil Kim

467
Citations
Spatial correlation of surface generated noise in a stratified ocean

William A Kuperman;Frank Ingenito

435
Citations
P-waves from cross-correlation of seismic noise

Philippe Roux;Karim G. Sabra;Peter Gerstoft;W. A. Kuperman

428
Citations
Extracting coherent wave fronts from acoustic ambient noise in the ocean

Philippe Roux;W. A. Kuperman

416
Citations
Focalization: environmental focusing and source localization.

Michael D. Collins;W. A. Kuperman

349
Citations
Nonlinear inversion for ocean‐bottom properties

Michael D. Collins;W. A. Kuperman;Henrik Schmidt

303
Citations
A long-range and variable focus phase-conjugation experiment in shallow water

W. S. Hodgkiss;H. C. Song;W. A. Kuperman;T. Akal

294
Citations
Emergence rate of the time-domain Green's function from the ambient noise cross-correlation function

Karim G. Sabra;Philippe Roux;W. A. Kuperman

252
Citations
Application of waveguide invariants to analysis of spectrograms from shallow water environments that vary in range and azimuth

Gerald L. D’Spain;William A. Kuperman

235
Citations
Environmentally tolerant beamforming for high‐resolution matched field processing: Deterministic mismatch

Henrik Schmidt;A. B. Baggeroer;W. A. Kuperman;E. K. Scheer

229
Citations
Matched-field processing, geoacoustic inversion, and source signature recovery of blue whale vocalizations

Aaron M. Thode;G. L. D’Spain;W. A. Kuperman

208
Citations
Underwater acoustic communications using time reversal

G.F. Edelmann;H.C. Song;S. Kim;W.S. Hodgkiss

204
Citations