2026 Alfred O. Hero: 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	81	995	964	532	513	839	35077

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - SIAM Fellow For contributions to the mathematical foundations of signal processing and data science.
1998 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the theory and practice of statistical signal processing, particularly in estimation, detection, and imaging.

Overview

Alfred O. Hero is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States and has a substantial publication record in the field of computer science, with a focus on several interconnected subfields.

Their research primarily spans the areas of artificial intelligence, molecular biology, computational mechanics, statistics and probability, and signal processing. The scientist's main topical interests include sparse and compressive sensing techniques, adversarial robustness in machine learning, machine learning and algorithms, anomaly detection techniques and applications, stochastic gradient optimization techniques, random matrices and applications, and tensor decomposition and applications.

Alfred O. Hero has collaborated frequently with several co-authors:

Neophytos Charalambides
Mayank Baranwal
Mert Pilancı
Sijia Liu
Dogyoon Song

The scientist has published in a variety of venues, with a concentration in several key journals and repositories:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
IEEE Access
Harvard Data Science Review

Among notable recent publications are the following papers:

A Primer on Zeroth-Order Optimization in Signal Processing and Machine Learning: Principals, Recent Advances, and Applications, 2020, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
Predicting Solar Flares Using CNN and LSTM on Two Solar Cycles of Active Region Data, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal
Struct2Graph: a graph attention network for structure based predictions of protein-protein interactions, 2022, BMC Bioinformatics
Solar Flare Intensity Prediction With Machine Learning Models, 2020, Space Weather
Recurrent neural networks enable design of multifunctional synthetic human gut microbiome dynamics, 2022, eLife

Recognition for their professional contributions includes awards such as:

SIAM Fellow (2020) for contributions to the mathematical foundations of signal processing and data science
IEEE Fellow (1998) for contributions to the theory and practice of statistical signal processing, particularly in estimation, detection, and imaging

Best Publications

Locating the nodes: cooperative localization in wireless sensor networks

N. Patwari;J.N. Ash;S. Kyperountas;A.O. Hero

3979
Citations
Relative location estimation in wireless sensor networks

N. Patwari;A.O. Hero;M. Perkins;N.S. Correal

2403
Citations
Space-alternating generalized expectation-maximization algorithm

J.A. Fessler;A.O. Hero

1472
Citations
Sparse LMS for system identification

Yilun Chen;Yuantao Gu;Alfred O. Hero

855
Citations
Distributed weighted-multidimensional scaling for node localization in sensor networks

Jose A. Costa;Neal Patwari;Alfred O. Hero

834
Citations
Internet tomography

A. Coates;A.O. Hero;R. Nowak;Bin Yu

702
Citations
Nonlinear Unmixing of Hyperspectral Images: Models and Algorithms

Nicolas Dobigeon;Jean-Yves Tourneret;Cedric Richard;Jose Carlos M. Bermudez

635
Citations
Shrinkage Algorithms for MMSE Covariance Estimation

Yilun Chen;Ami Wiesel;Yonina C Eldar;Alfred O Hero

557
Citations
A Fast Spectral Method for Active 3D Shape Reconstruction

Jia Li;Alfred O. Hero

499
Citations
Using proximity and quantized RSS for sensor localization in wireless networks

Neal Patwari;Alfred O. Hero

461
Citations
Joint Bayesian Endmember Extraction and Linear Unmixing for Hyperspectral Imagery

N. Dobigeon;S. Moussaoui;M. Coulon;J.-Y. Tourneret

445
Citations
Lower bounds for parametric estimation with constraints

J.D. Gorman;A.O. Hero

423
Citations
Penalized maximum-likelihood image reconstruction using space-alternating generalized EM algorithms

J.A. Fessler;A.O. Hero

417
Citations
Secure space-time communication

A.O. Hero

383
Citations
Geodesic entropic graphs for dimension and entropy estimation in manifold learning

J.A. Costa;A.O. Hero

374
Citations
Energy-based sensor network source localization via projection onto convex sets

D. Blatt;A.O. Hero

365
Citations
A Convergent Incremental Gradient Method with a Constant Step Size

Doron Blatt;Alfred O. Hero;Hillel Gauchman

359
Citations
Applications of entropic spanning graphs

A.O. Hero;Bing Ma;O.J.J. Michel;J. Gorman

358
Citations
Locating the Nodes

Neal Patwari;Joshua N. Ash;Spyros Kyperountas;Alfred O. Hero

323
Citations
Robust Shrinkage Estimation of High-Dimensional Covariance Matrices

Yilun Chen;A. Wiesel;A. O. Hero

316
Citations
Foundations and Applications of Sensor Management

Alfred Olivier Hero;David Castan;Doug Cochran;Keith Kastella

305
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey A. Fessler University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Pin-Yu Chen IBM (United States)

Sijia Liu Michigan State University

Ami Wiesel Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Nicolas Dobigeon National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse

Christopher W. Woods Duke University

Anand Swaroop National Institutes of Health

Neal Patwari Washington University in St. Louis

Jean-Yves Tourneret National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse

Neal H. Clinthorne University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

External Links

Personal website of Alfred O. Hero Google Scholar page

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