2026 William W.-G. Yeh: 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	55	2977	2850	893	813	220	11962

Research.com Recognitions

2008 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For the development of methodologies for optimizing the management of water resources, and for inverse methods of estimating subsurface parameters.

Overview

William W.-G. Yeh is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on engineering and environmental science, with specific expertise in ocean engineering, global and planetary change, water science and technology, management science and operations research, and civil and structural engineering.

The main topics explored in their body of work include:

Water resources management and optimization
Flood risk assessment and management
Water-energy-food nexus studies
Reservoir engineering and simulation methods
Hydrology and drought analysis
Hydrology and watershed management studies
Risk and portfolio optimization

Throughout their career, William W.-G. Yeh has published extensively in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

Journal of Hydrology
Water Resources Research
PLoS ONE
World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2021
Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

Recent notable papers include:

"A multi-objective risk management model for real-time flood control optimal operation of a parallel reservoir system" (2020, Journal of Hydrology)
"A Proposed Multi-Objective, Multi-Stage Stochastic Programming With Recourse Model for Reservoir Management and Operation" (2021, Water Resources Research)
"Constructing robust and efficient experimental designs in groundwater modeling using a Galerkin method, proper orthogonal decomposition, and metaheuristic algorithms" (2021, PLoS ONE)
"A Bayesian hierarchical model for estimating the statistical parameters in a three-parameter log-normal distribution for monthly average streamflows" (2020, Journal of Hydrology)
"When to start an adaptation strategy in response to climate change in reservoir system management" (2021, Journal of Hydrology)

William W.-G. Yeh has collaborated frequently with other researchers. Key coauthors include:

Jinshu Li
Renato C. Zambon
Mario Thadeu Leme de Barros
Xiaolin Qin
Filipe Antonio Marques Falcetta

In 2008, William W.-G. Yeh was recognized as a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to developing methodologies for optimizing water resources management and for inverse methods of estimating subsurface parameters.

Best Publications

Reservoir Management and Operations Models: A State‐of‐the‐Art Review

William W. G. Yeh

1814
Citations
Review of Parameter Identification Procedures in Groundwater Hydrology: The Inverse Problem

William W. G. Yeh

1463
Citations
Optimization of Large-Scale Hydropower System Operations

Mario T. L. Barros;Frank T.-C. Tsai;Shu-Li Yang;Joao E. G. Lopes

377
Citations
Groundwater Systems Planning and Management

Robert Willis;William W-G. Yeh

327
Citations
Coupled inverse problems in groundwater modeling: 1. Sensitivity analysis and parameter identification

Ne-Zheng Sun;William W.-G. Yeh

299
Citations
Aquifer parameter identification with optimum dimension in parameterization

William W. G. Yeh;Young S. Yoon

238
Citations
A diversified multiobjective GA for optimizing reservoir rule curves

Li Chen;James McPhee;William W.-G. Yeh

236
Citations
Optimization of Reservoir Management and Operation with Hedging Rules

Ming-Yen Tu;Nien-Sheng Hsu;William W.-G. Yeh

214
Citations
Optimization of real time operation of a multiple-reservoir system

Leonard Becker;William W. G. Yeh

198
Citations
Identification of Parameter Structure in Groundwater Inverse Problem

Ne-Zheng Sun;William W. G. Yeh

194
Citations
Optimization of Hedging Rules for Reservoir Operations

Ming-Yen Tu;Nien-Sheng Hsu;Frank T.-C. Tsai;William W.-G. Yeh

186
Citations
MANAGEMENT MODEL FOR CONJUNCTIVE USE OF COASTAL SURFACE WATER AND GROUND WATER

Pamela G. Emch;William W-G. Yeh

180
Citations
Identification of parameters in unsteady open channel flows

Leonard Becker;William W. G. Yeh

178
Citations
Hydro Unit Commitment via Mixed Integer Linear Programming: A Case Study of the Three Gorges Project, China

Xiang Li;Tiejian Li;Jiahua Wei;Guangqian Wang

176
Citations
Impacts of the 2004 tsunami on groundwater resources in Sri Lanka

Tissa H. Illangasekare;Scott W. Tyler;T. Prabhakar Clement;Karen G. Villholth

174
Citations
Optimal control of nonlinear groundwater hydraulics using differential dynamic programming

LaDon Jones;Robert Willis;William W.-G. Yeh

147
Citations
A stochastic inverse solution for transient groundwater flow: Parameter identification and reliability analysis

Ne-Zheng Sun;William W. G. Yeh

142
Citations
Mathematical simulation of soil vapor extraction systems: Model development and numerical examples

Klaus Rathfelder;William W. G. Yeh;Douglas Mackay

139
Citations
Systems Analysis in Ground-Water Planning and Management

William W.‐G. Yeh

139
Citations
Multiobjective analysis of multireservoir operations

William W. G. Yeh;Leonard Becker

134
Citations