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Alex Pothen 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 Alex Pothen sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 150 publications — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Alex Pothen 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 Alex Pothen sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 31 D-Index — 6th percentile

6% 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

  • 2018 - SIAM Fellow For advances in combinatorial algorithms for scientific applications, and leadership in founding the combinatorial scientific computing community.

Overview

Alex Pothen is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States and primarily conducts research in the field of Computer Science. Their work spans several subfields including Computational Theory and Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Computer Networks and Communications.

The scientist's research topics cover a variety of advanced and technical areas, such as:

  • Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs
  • Graph Theory and Algorithms
  • Advanced Graph Neural Networks
  • Elasticity and Material Modeling
  • Optimization and Search Problems
  • Advanced Graph Theory Research
  • Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture

Some of Alex Pothen's recent publications demonstrate the diversity and scope of their research interests. Notable papers include:

  • "EXAGRAPH: Graph and combinatorial methods for enabling exascale applications" (2021) published in The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
  • "DigiLoCS: A leap forward in predictive organ-on-chip simulations" (2025) published in PLoS ONE
  • "Dynamic Asset Allocation with Expected Shortfall via Quantum Annealing" (2023) published in Entropy
  • "VWC-BERT: Scaling Vulnerability-Weakness-Exploit Mapping on Modern AI Accelerators" (2022) presented at the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)
  • "A novel statistical methodology for quantifying the spatial arrangements of axons in peripheral nerves" (2023) published in Frontiers in Neuroscience

Alex Pothen has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • S M Ferdous
  • Mahantesh Halappanavar
  • Siddhartha Shankar Das
  • Edoardo Serra
  • Abida Sanjana Shemonti

The scientist has published extensively in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, PLoS ONE, and Entropy.

In recognition of their contributions, Alex Pothen was named an SIAM Fellow in 2018, awarded for advances in combinatorial algorithms for scientific applications and leadership in founding the combinatorial scientific computing community.

Best Publications

  • Partitioning sparse matrices with eigenvectors of graphs

    Alex Pothen;Horst D. Simon;Kan-Pu Liou

  • Computing the block triangular form of a sparse matrix

    Alex Pothen;Chin-Ju Fan

  • What Color Is Your Jacobian? Graph Coloring for Computing Derivatives

    Assefaw Hadish Gebremedhin;Fredrik Manne;Alex Pothen

  • A spectral algorithm for envelope reduction of sparse matrices

    Stephen T. Barnard;Alex Pothen;Horst D. Simon

  • Graph Partitioning Algorithms with Applications to Scientific Computing

    Alex Pothen

  • A Scalable Parallel Algorithm for Incomplete Factor Preconditioning

    David Hysom;Alex Pothen

  • The null space problem I. complexity

    Thomas F Coleman;Alex Pothen

  • Protocols for disease classification from mass spectrometry data.

    Michael Wagner;Dayanand Naik;Alex Pothen

  • The null space problem II. Algorithms

    Thomas F. Coleman;Alex Pothen

  • A fast algorithm for reordering sparse matrices for parallel factorization

    John G. Lewis;Barry W. Peyton;Alex Pothen

  • Computational protein biomarker prediction: a case study for prostate cancer

    Michael Wagner;Dayanand N. Naik;Alex Pothen;Srinivas Kasukurti

  • A mapping algorithm for parallel sparse Cholesky factorization

    Alex Pothen;Chunguang Sun

  • ColPack: Software for graph coloring and related problems in scientific computing

    Assefaw H. Gebremedhin;Duc Nguyen;Md. Mostofa Ali Patwary;Alex Pothen

  • Graph coloring algorithms for multi-core and massively multithreaded architectures

    íMit V. ÇAtalyüRek;John Feo;Assefaw H. Gebremedhin;Mahantesh Halappanavar

  • Two Improved Algorithms for Envelope and Wavefront Reduction

    Gary Kumfert;Alex Pothen;Alex Pothen

  • Towards a fast implementation of spectral nested dissection

    A. Pothen;H. D. Simon;L. Wang;S. T. Barnard

  • A MICROECONOMIC SCHEDULER FOR PARALLEL COMPUTERS

    Ion Stoica;Hussein M. Abdel-Wahab;Alex Pothen;Alex Pothen

  • Efficient Computation of Sparse Hessians Using Coloring and Automatic Differentiation

    Assefaw H. Gebremedhin;Arijit Tarafdar;Alex Pothen;Andrea Walther

  • New Acyclic and Star Coloring Algorithms with Application to Computing Hessians

    Assefaw H. Gebremedhin;Arijit Tarafdar;Fredrik Manne;Alex Pothen

  • The Computational Complexity of the Minimum Degree Algorithm

    P Heggernes;S C Eisenstat;G Kumfert;A Pothen

  • Graph Coloring Algorithms for Multi-core and Massively

    Multithreaded Architectures;John Feo;Assefaw H. Gebremedhin;Mahantesh Halappanavar

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce Hendrickson
Bruce Hendrickson Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Horst D. Simon
Horst D. Simon Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ümit V. Çatalyürek
Ümit V. Çatalyürek Georgia Institute of Technology
Fernando L. Alvarado
Fernando L. Alvarado University of Wisconsin–Madison
Thomas F. Coleman
Thomas F. Coleman University of Waterloo
Zhenyu Huang
Zhenyu Huang Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Ion Stoica
Ion Stoica University of California, Berkeley
Aydin Buluc
Aydin Buluc Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ehab Al-Shaer
Ehab Al-Shaer Carnegie Mellon University
Pradeep Dubey
Pradeep Dubey Intel (United States)

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