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56
Citations
12271
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4086
National Ranking
1941

Alan L. Cox publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan L. Cox sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 131 publications — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Alan L. Cox D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan L. Cox sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1998 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Alan L. Cox is affiliated with Rice University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within computer science, particularly focused on hardware and architecture, computer networks and communications, as well as artificial intelligence and information systems. Additionally, their work touches on plant science.

The scientist has contributed to various topics in computing, including:

  • Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
  • Advanced Data Storage Technologies
  • Cloud Computing and Resource Management
  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications
  • Graph Theory and Algorithms

Recent publications illustrate the range of their research interests and contributions to different venues. These papers include:

  • "An FPGA Accelerator for Genome Variant Calling," 2023, ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems
  • "An Empirical Evaluation of PTE Coalescing," 2023, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Memory Systems
  • "The Impact of Page Size and Microarchitecture on Instruction Address Translation Overhead," 2023, ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization
  • "GMEM: Generalized Memory Management for Peripheral Devices," 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Design and accuracy trade-offs in Computational Statistics," 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)

These publications show involvement in a variety of subfields and technologies, including hardware acceleration, memory and resource management, and computational statistics.

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Scott Rixner
  • Tiancheng Xu
  • Yufeng Zhou
  • Eliot H. Solomon
  • Sandhya Dwarkadas

Their work has appeared repeatedly in notable venues such as arXiv, ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Memory Systems, and ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization, reflecting diverse dissemination across conferences and journals.

In recognition of their contributions, the scientist was awarded the title of Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1998.

Best Publications

  • TreadMarks: shared memory computing on networks of workstations

    C. Amza;A.L. Cox;S. Dwarkadas;P. Keleher

  • TreadMarks: distributed shared memory on standard workstations and operating systems

    Pete Keleher;Alan L. Cox;Sandhya Dwarkadas;Willy Zwaenepoel

  • Lazy release consistency for software distributed shared memory

    Pete Keleher;Alan L. Cox;Willy Zwaenepoel

  • Scheduling I/O in virtual machine monitors

    Diego Ongaro;Alan L. Cox;Scott Rixner

  • Optimizing network virtualization in Xen

    Aravind Menon;Alan L. Cox;Willy Zwaenepoel

  • The Hadoop distributed filesystem: Balancing portability and performance

    Jeffrey Shafer;Scott Rixner;Alan L. Cox

  • Translation caching: skip, don't walk (the page table)

    Thomas W. Barr;Alan L. Cox;Scott Rixner

  • Practical, transparent operating system support for superpages

    Juan Navarro;Sitararn Iyer;Peter Druschel;Alan Cox

  • Maestro: A System for Scalable OpenFlow Control

    Zheng Cai;Alan L. Cox;T. S. Eugene Ng

  • Java/DSM: A platform for heterogeneous computing

    Weimin Yu;Alan L. Cox

  • Adaptive cache coherency for detecting migratory shared data

    Alan L. Cox;Robert J. Fowler

  • PAST: scalable ethernet for data centers

    Brent Stephens;Alan Cox;Wes Felter;Colin Dixon

  • Concurrent Direct Network Access for Virtual Machine Monitors

    P. Willmann;J. Shafer;D. Carr;A. Menon

  • The implementation of a coherent memory abstraction on a NUMA multiprocessor: experiences with platinum

    A. Cox;R. Fowler

  • NUMA policies and their relation to memory architecture

    William J. Bolosky;Michael L. Scott;Robert P. Fitzgerald;Robert J. Fowler

  • An integrated compile-time/run-time software distributed shared memory system

    Sandhya Dwarkadas;Alan L. Cox;Willy Zwaenepoel

  • Message Passing Versus Distributed Shared Memory on Networks of Workstations

    Honghui Lu;Sandhya Dwarkadas;Alan L. Cox;Willy Zwaenepoel

  • OpenMP for Networks of SMPs

    Y.Charlie Hu;Honghui Lu;Alan L. Cox;Willy Zwaenepoel

  • Achieving 10 Gb/s using safe and transparent network interface virtualization

    Kaushik Kumar Ram;Jose Renato Santos;Yoshio Turner;Alan L. Cox

  • Evaluation of release consistent software distributed shared memory on emerging network technology

    Sandhya Dwarkadas;Peter Keleher;Alan L. Cox;Willy Zwaenepoel

  • Specification and Implementation of Dynamic Web Site Benchmarks

    C. Amza;E. Cecchet;A. Chanda;Alan L. Cox

Frequent Co-Authors

Willy Zwaenepoel
Willy Zwaenepoel University of Sydney
Scott Rixner
Scott Rixner Rice University
Sandhya Dwarkadas
Sandhya Dwarkadas University of Rochester
Ramakrishnan Rajamony
Ramakrishnan Rajamony Goldman Sachs (United States)
Sameh Elnikety
Sameh Elnikety Microsoft (United States)
Y. Charlie Hu
Y. Charlie Hu Purdue University West Lafayette
T. S. Eugene Ng
T. S. Eugene Ng Rice University
John B. Carter
John B. Carter IBM (United States)
Dan S. Wallach
Dan S. Wallach Rice University
Yuxiong He
Yuxiong He Microsoft (United States)

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