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 Fern sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 229 publications — 56th percentile
56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.
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 Fern sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 47 D-Index — 56th percentile
56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.
Alan Fern is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within computer science and engineering, particularly focusing on artificial intelligence and robotics.
Fern has contributed extensively to the study of robotic locomotion and control as well as reinforcement learning applied to robotics. Their work also encompasses explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), adversarial robustness in machine learning, prosthetics and rehabilitation robotics, human pose and action recognition, and anomaly detection techniques and applications.
Their publication record includes a significant number of works in leading venues such as:
Some of the recent papers authored by or including Alan Fern are:
Throughout their career, Alan Fern has collaborated frequently with other researchers. Notable frequent coauthors include:
In terms of fields of study, the main areas of Alan Fern's research are:
Their work covers a variety of subfields such as:
Sungwook Yoon;Alan Fern;Robert Givan
Aaron Wilson;Alan Fern;Soumya Ray;Prasad Tadepalli
Radha-Krishna Balla;Alan Fern
Samuel Greydanus;Anurag Koul;Jonathan Dodge;Alan Fern
Alan Fern;Robert Givan
Sungwook Yoon;Alan Fern;Robert Givan;Subbarao Kambhampati
Rob Hess;Alan Fern
Ted E. Senator;Henry G. Goldberg;Alex Memory;William T. Young
Shubhomoy Das;Weng-Keen Wong;Thomas Dietterich;Alan Fern
Alan Fern;Sungwook Yoon;Robert Givan
William Brendel;Alan Fern;Sinisa Todorovic
Taylor Apgar;Patrick Clary;Kevin Green;Alan Fern
Andrew F. Emmott;Shubhomoy Das;Thomas Dietterich;Alan Fern
Aaron Wilson;Alan Fern;Prasad Tadepalli
Alan Fern;Sungwook Yoon;Robert Givan
Neville Mehta;Sriraam Natarajan;Prasad Tadepalli;Alan Fern
Ethan Dereszynski;Jesse Hostetler;Alan Fern;Tom Dietterich
Jonah Siekmann;Kevin Green;John Warila;Alan Fern
Sungwook Yoon;Alan Fern;Robert Givan
Ronald Bjarnason;Alan Fern;Prasad Tadepalli
Alan Fern;Sriraam Natarajan;Kshitij Judah;Prasad Tadepalli
Javad Azimi;Alan Fern;Xiaoli Z. Fern
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