2026 Alejandro Jaimes: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	40	9180	8914	3906	3744	159	8434

Overview

Alejandro Jaimes is affiliated with Dataminr in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in computer science, with a focus on artificial intelligence and communication. Their work encompasses several subfields including statistical and nonlinear physics, computer vision and pattern recognition, as well as sociology and political science.

Jaimes has published a significant number of papers across diverse topics. The main areas of their research include:

Topic Modeling
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Public Relations and Crisis Communication
Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
Speech and dialogue systems
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
Complex Network Analysis Techniques

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Jaimes are:

"Cultural Dimensions in Twitter: Time, Individualism and Power" (2021), published in the Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
"A Review of Incident Prediction, Resource Allocation, and Dispatch Models for Emergency Management" (2021), published in Accident Analysis & Prevention
"XLTime: A Cross-Lingual Knowledge Transfer Framework for Temporal Expression Extraction" (2022), published in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022
"Leveraging Browsing Patterns for Topic Discovery and Photostream Recommendation" (2021), published in the Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
"Clustering of Social Media Messages for Humanitarian Aid Response during Crisis" (2020), published in arXiv (Cornell University)

Jaimes has frequently published in several venues, including:

arXiv (Cornell University), with 12 publications
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, with 2 publications
Accident Analysis & Prevention
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

The scientist collaborates often with a core group of coauthors, which includes Joel Tetreault, Ke Zhang, Tanay Kumar Saha, Shihao Ran, and Lu Di.

Best Publications

Multimodal human-computer interaction: A survey

Alejandro Jaimes;Nicu Sebe

1502
Citations
TVSum: Summarizing web videos using titles

Yale Song;Jordi Vallmitjana;Amanda Stent;Alejandro Jaimes

656
Citations
Sensing Trending Topics in Twitter

L. M. Aiello;G. Petkos;C. Martin;D. Corney

540
Citations
Social Network Analysis and Mining for Business Applications

Francesco Bonchi;Carlos Castillo;Aristides Gionis;Alejandro Jaimes

447
Citations
Data Mining Methods for Recommender Systems

Xavier Amatriain;Alejandro Jaimes;Nuria Oliver;Josep M. Pujol

385
Citations
Correlating financial time series with micro-blogging activity

Eduardo J. Ruiz;Vagelis Hristidis;Carlos Castillo;Aristides Gionis

384
Citations
Method and system for indexing and content-based adaptive streaming of digital video content

Shih-Fu Chang;Di Zhong;Raj Kumar;Alejandro Jaimes

288
Citations
Video co-summarization: Video summarization by visual co-occurrence

Wen-Sheng Chu;Yale Song;Alejandro Jaimes

270
Citations
TGIF: A New Dataset and Benchmark on Animated GIF Description

Yuncheng Li;Yale Song;Liangliang Cao;Joel Tetreault

236
Citations
Conceptual framework for indexing visual information at multiple levels

Alejandro Jaimes;Shih-Fu Chang

214
Citations
Do all birds tweet the same?: characterizing twitter around the world

Barbara Poblete;Ruth Garcia;Marcelo Mendoza;Alejandro Jaimes

180
Citations
Human-centered computing: a multimedia perspective

Alejandro Jaimes;Nicu Sebe;Daniel Gatica-Perez

179
Citations
Who uses web search for what: and how

Ingmar Weber;Alejandro Jaimes

127
Citations
Memory cues for meeting video retrieval

Alejandro Jaimes;Kengo Omura;Takeshi Nagamine;Kazutaka Hirata

124
Citations
Cultural Dimensions in Twitter: Time, Individualism and Power.

Ruth Garcia-Gavilanes;Daniele Quercia;Alejandro Jaimes

115
Citations
Guest Editors' Introduction: Human-Centered Computing--Toward a Human Revolution

A. Jaimes;D. Gatica-Perez;N. Sebe;T.S. Huang

108
Citations
A conceptual framework and empirical research for classifying visual descriptors

Corinne Jörgensen;Alejandro James;Ana B. Benitez;Shih-Fu Chang

108
Citations
Semi-automatic, data-driven construction of multimedia ontologies

A. Jaimes;J.R. Smith

106
Citations
To Click or Not To Click: Automatic Selection of Beautiful Thumbnails from Videos

Yale Song;Miriam Redi;Jordi Vallmitjana;Alejandro Jaimes

96
Citations
Multimedia archive description scheme

Ana B Benitez;Alejandro Jaimes;Seungyup Paek;Shih-Fu Chang

94
Citations
A time-based collective factorization for topic discovery and monitoring in news

Carmen K. Vaca;Amin Mantrach;Alejandro Jaimes;Marco Saerens

85
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Shih-Fu Chang Columbia University

Nicu Sebe University of Trento

Joel Tetreault Yahoo (United Kingdom)

Belle L. Tseng Apple (United States)

John R. Smith IBM (United States)

Carlos Castillo Pompeu Fabra University

Amanda Stent Colby College

Ingmar Weber Saarland University

Alexander C. Loui Rochester Institute of Technology

Piero Fraternali Polytechnic University of Milan

External Links

Personal website of Alejandro Jaimes Google Scholar page

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