Research Interests

• Numerical simulation of flow and solute transport in saturated and unsaturated porous and fractured media
• Uncertainty assessment of hydrologic parameters, conceptual models, and scenarios
• Risk analysis and decision-making under uncertainty
• Geostatistical methods for site characterization and contaminant remediation
• Stochastic methods in groundwater hydrology
• High performance computing using state-of-the-art algorithms and tools

Selected Publications

• Ye, M., and R. Khaleel, 2008, A Markov chain model for characterizing medium heterogeneity and sediment layering structure, Water Resour. Res., 44, W09427, doi:10.1029/2008WR006924, .


• Ye, M., K.F. Pohlmann, and J.B. Chapman, 2008, Expert elicitation of recharge model probabilities for the Death Valley regional flow system, J. Hydro., 354, 102-115, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.03.001, .


• Ye, M., P.D. Meyer, and S.P. Neuman, 2008, On model selection criteria in multimodel analysis, Water Resour. Res., 44, W03428, doi:10.1029/2008WR006803, .


• Ye, M., R. Khaleel, M.G. Schaap, and J. Zhu, 2007, Simulation of field injection experiments in heterogeneous unsaturated media using cokriging and artificial neural network, Water Resour. Res., 43, W07413, doi:10.1029/2006WR005030, .


• Ye, M., F. Pan, Y.S. Wu, B. Hu, C. Shirley, Z. Yu, 2007, Assessment of radionuclide transport uncertainty in the unsaturated zone at Yucca Mountain, Adv. Water Resour., 30, 118-134, .


• Ye, M., S.P. Neuman, P.D. Meyer, K.F. Pohlmann, 2005, Sensitivity analysis and assessment of prior model probabilities in MLBMA with application to unsaturated fractured tuff, Water Resour. Res., 41, W12429, doi:10.1029/2005WR004260, .


• Ye, M., R. Khaleel, T.-C. J. Yeh, 2005, Stochastic analysis of moisture plume dynamics of a field injection experiment, Water Resour. Res., 41, W03013, doi:10.1029/2004WR003735, .


• Yeh, T.-C. J., M. Ye, R. Khaleel, 2005, Estimation of effective unsaturated hydraulic conductivity tensor using spatial moments of observed moisture plume, Water Resour. Res., 41, W03014, doi:10.1029/2004WR003736, .


• Ye, M., S.P. Neuman, P.D. Meyer, 2004, Maximum likelihood Bayesian averaging of spatial variability models in unsaturated fractured tuff, Water Resour. Res., 40, W05113, doi:10.1029/2003WR002557, .


• Ye, M., S. P. Neuman, A. Guadagnini, D. M. Tartakovsky, 2004, Nonlocal and localized analyses of conditional mean transient flow in bounded, randomly heterogeneous porous media, Water Resour. Res., 40, W05104, doi:10.1029/2003WR002099, .