2026 W.M. Wonham: Electronics and Electrical Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Electronics and Electrical Engineering	80	508	30	270	42947

W.M. Wonham publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where W.M. Wonham sits on this spectrum.

34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 270 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

W.M. Wonham D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where W.M. Wonham sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2005 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For work on the geometric theory of linear systems and for bridging the gap between control theory and computer science.
1990 - Brouwer Medal
1989 - IEEE Control Systems Award "For pioneering contributions to the theory of stochastic systems, linear multivariable control, and discrete event systems."
1988 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
1977 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to multivariable control system theory and design.

Overview

W.M. Wonham was affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and contributed extensively to areas spanning computer science and engineering. Their scholarly work primarily focused on computational theory and mathematics, control and systems engineering, and electrical and electronic engineering, with notable research in hardware and architecture.

The scientist's research topics included:

Petri Nets in System Modeling
Formal Methods in Verification
Microgrid Control and Optimization
Smart Grid Energy Management
Smart Grid Security and Resilience
Real-Time Systems Scheduling
Fault Detection and Control Systems

W.M. Wonham published in a range of venues, with contributions to these frequent publication outlets:

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
IET Cyber-Systems and Robotics
IEEE Control Systems

Their recent papers included the following:

"A Discrete-Event Supervisory Control for the AC Microgrid" (2020) published in IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
"Real-Time Scheduling Based on Nonblocking Supervisory Control of State-Tree Structures" (2020) published in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
"Failsafe mechanism design of multicopters based on supervisory control theory" (2020) published in IET Cyber-Systems and Robotics
"W. Murray Wonham [People in Control]" (2021) published in IEEE Control Systems

Frequent collaborators in their work included:

Arman Ghasaei
Zhi Jin Zhang
Reza Iravani
Xi Wang
Zhiwu Li

Throughout their career, W.M. Wonham received multiple honors and distinctions such as:

Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2005) for work on the geometric theory of linear systems and bridging control theory with computer science
Brouwer Medal (1990)
IEEE Control Systems Award (1989) for contributions to stochastic systems theory, linear multivariable control, and discrete event systems
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1988)
IEEE Fellow (1977) for contributions to multivariable control system theory and design

Best Publications

Supervisory control of a class of discrete event processes

P. J. Ramadge;W. M. Wonham

4451
Citations
Paper: The internal model principle of control theory

B. A. Francis;W. M. Wonham

3944
Citations
The internal model principle for linear multivariable regulators

B. A. Francis;W. M. Wonham

1456
Citations
On a Matrix Riccati Equation of Stochastic Control

W. M. Wonham

1366
Citations
On pole assignment in multi-input controllable linear systems

W. Wonham

1264
Citations
On the supermal controllable sublanguage of a given language

W. M. Wonham;P. J. Ramadge

1198
Citations
On observability of discrete-event systems

F. Lin;W. M. Wonham

1004
Citations
Think globally, act locally: decentralized supervisory control

K. Rudie;W.M. Wonham

782
Citations
Decoupling and Pole Assignment in Linear Multivariable Systems: A Geometric Approach

W. M. Wonham;A. S. Morse

764
Citations
On the Separation Theorem of Stochastic Control

W. M. Wonham

724
Citations
Linear Multivariable Control

Walter Murray Wonham

676
Citations
Supervisory control of timed discrete-event systems

B.A. Brandin;W.M. Wonham

637
Citations
Random differential equations in control theory

W. M. Wonham

613
Citations
Some Applications of Stochastic Differential Equations to Optimal Nonlinear Filtering

W. M. Wonham

611
Citations
Modular feedback logic for discrete event systems

P. J. Ramadge;W. M. Wonham

589
Citations
Modular Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Systems

W. M. Wonham;Peter Jeffrey Ramadge

534
Citations
Fault diagnosis in discrete-event systems: framework and model reduction

S. Hashtrudi Zad;R.H. Kwong;W.M. Wonham

495
Citations
Status of noninteracting control

A. Morse;W. Wonham

426
Citations
Decentralized supervisory control of discrete-event systems

F. Lin;W. M. Wonham

405
Citations
The internal model principle for linear multivariable regulators

Unknown

279
Citations
On the supremal controllable sublanguage of a given language

W. Wonham;P. Ramadge

75
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Rong Su Nanyang Technological University

Peter J. Ramadge Princeton University

Feng Lin Wayne State University

Bruce A. Francis University of Toronto

Zhiwu Li Macau University of Science and Technology

Lorenzo Marconi University of Bologna

Steven I. Marcus University of Maryland, College Park

Jie Huang Chinese University of Hong Kong

Shankar P. Bhattacharyya Texas A&M University

Alberto Isidori Sapienza University of Rome

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