2026 Alex Sprintson: 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	41	8902	8651	3789	3639	211	6498

Overview

Alex Sprintson is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States and has contributed extensively to computer science research, particularly within the areas of cryptography, privacy, and communication technologies.

Their research primarily focuses on the following topics:

Cryptography and Data Security
Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
Cooperative Communication and Network Coding
SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
Caching and Content Delivery
Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
Advanced Data Storage Technologies

The main field of study for Sprintson is Computer Science, with significant publications across several subfields including:

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Networks and Communications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Infectious Diseases
Molecular Biology

Sprintson has published frequently in a range of venues, notably:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
IEEE Transactions on Communications
2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Some recent papers by Alex Sprintson include:

"Single-Server Private Linear Transformation: The Joint Privacy Case" (2022), IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
"Single-Server Private Information Retrieval Schemes are Equivalent to Locally Recoverable Coding Schemes" (2021), IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory
"The Linear Capacity of Single-Server Individually-Private Information Retrieval With Side Information" (2022), 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
"The Role of Reusable and Single-Use Side Information in Private Information Retrieval" (2022), 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
"Group Testing on General Set-Systems" (2022), 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Sprintson include:

Anoosheh Heidarzadeh
Mira Gonen
Michael Langberg
Swanand Kadhe
Ningze Wang

Best Publications

Joint Physical Layer Coding and Network Coding for Bidirectional Relaying

Makesh Pravin Wilson;Krishna Narayanan;Henry D Pfister;Alex Sprintson

443
Citations
On the Index Coding Problem and Its Relation to Network Coding and Matroid Theory

Salim El Rouayheb;Alex Sprintson;Costas Georghiades

344
Citations
Joint Physical Layer Coding and Network Coding for Bi-Directional Relaying

Makesh Pravin Wilson;Krishna Narayanan;Henry Pfister;Alex Sprintson

237
Citations
The encoding complexity of network coding

M. Langberg;A. Sprintson;J. Bruck

206
Citations
The encoding complexity of network coding

Michael Langberg;Alexander Sprintson;Jehoshua Bruck

184
Citations
On the Minimum Number of Transmissions in Single-Hop Wireless Coding Networks

S.Y. El Rouayheb;M.A.R. Chaudhry;A. Sprintson

177
Citations
Network coding : fundamentals and applications

Muriel Médard;Alex Sprintson

177
Citations
On coding for cooperative data exchange

Salim El Rouayheb;Alex Sprintson;Parastoo Sadeghi

168
Citations
Efficient algorithms for Index Coding

M.A.R. Chaudhry;A. Sprintson

161
Citations
Simulation and Estimation of Reliability in a Wind Farm Considering the Wake Effect

Hagkwen Kim;C. Singh;A. Sprintson

151
Citations
Secure Network Coding for Wiretap Networks of Type II

S. El Rouayheb;E. Soljanin;A. Sprintson

148
Citations
Precomputation schemes for QoS routing

Ariel Orda;Alexander Sprintson

144
Citations
On the Hardness of Approximating the Network Coding Capacity

Michael Langberg;Alex Sprintson

142
Citations
Algorithms for computing QoS paths with restoration

Yigal Bejerano;Yuri Breitbart;Ariel Orda;Rajeev Rastogi

138
Citations
Algorithms for computing QoS paths with restoration

Y. Bejerano;Y. Breitbart;A. Orda;Rajeev Rastogi

135
Citations
Reliability Modeling and Analysis of IEC 61850 Based Substation Protection Systems

Hangtian Lei;Chanan Singh;Alex Sprintson

134
Citations
Private Information Retrieval With Side Information

Swanand Kadhe;Brenden Garcia;Anoosheh Heidarzadeh;Salim El Rouayheb

125
Citations
On the Minimum Number of Transmissions in Single-Hop Wireless Coding Networks

Salim Y. El Rouayheb;Mohammad Asad R. Chaudhry;Alex Sprintson

121
Citations
Efficient algorithms for computing disjoint QoS paths

A. Orda;A. Sprintson

117
Citations
QoS routing: the precomputation perspective

A. Orda;A. Sprintson

111
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Salim El Rouayheb Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Michael Langberg University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Chanan Singh Texas A&M University

Emina Soljanin Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Jehoshua Bruck California Institute of Technology

Costas N. Georghiades Texas A&M University

Ariel Orda Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Krishna R. Narayanan Texas A&M University

Seth D. Guikema University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

David J. Love Purdue University West Lafayette

External Links

Personal website of Alex Sprintson Google Scholar page

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