2026 Ali Ghodsi: 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	63	2698	2618	100	93	230	22393

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Ali Ghodsi is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence and its applications. Their research encompasses multiple subfields, including computer vision and pattern recognition, molecular biology, statistical and nonlinear physics, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's work spans several key topics in machine learning and artificial intelligence. These include:

Face and Expression Recognition
Topic Modeling
Neural Networks and Applications
Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Advanced Neural Network Applications

Ali Ghodsi has published research in a range of venues, with frequent contributions appearing in:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Medical Image Analysis
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Nature Machine Intelligence
Mathematics and Computers in Simulation

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Ali Ghodsi are:

"Fine-Tuning and training of densenet for histopathology image representation using TCGA diagnostic slides" (2021) in Medical Image Analysis
"Delta lake" (2020) in Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
"Computationally instrument-resolution-independent de novo peptide sequencing for high-resolution devices" (2021) in Nature Machine Intelligence
"A new approach to the numerical solution of Fredholm integral equations using least squares-support vector regression" (2020) in Mathematics and Computers in Simulation
"SymbolicGPT: A Generative Transformer Model for Symbolic Regression" (2021) in arXiv (Cornell University)

Their collaborative network includes frequent co-authors such as:

Benyamin Ghojogh
Mark Crowley
Mehdi Rezagholizadeh
Fakhri Karray
Aref Jafari

Ali Ghodsi's publications reflect a sustained focus on advancing computational techniques and applying neural networks across various scientific and engineering disciplines. Their extensive body of work in computer science totals around 140 publications, with a strong concentration on artificial intelligence and related areas.

Best Publications

Apache Spark: a unified engine for big data processing

Matei Zaharia;Reynold S. Xin;Patrick Wendell;Tathagata Das

2883
Citations
Mesos: a platform for fine-grained resource sharing in the data center

Benjamin Hindman;Andy Konwinski;Matei Zaharia;Ali Ghodsi

2342
Citations
Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark

Michael Armbrust;Reynold S. Xin;Cheng Lian;Yin Huai

1705
Citations
Dominant resource fairness: fair allocation of multiple resource types

Ali Ghodsi;Matei Zaharia;Benjamin Hindman;Andy Konwinski

1481
Citations
Information-centric networking: seeing the forest for the trees

Ali Ghodsi;Scott Shenker;Teemu Koponen;Ankit Singla

645
Citations
Less pain, most of the gain: incrementally deployable ICN

Seyed Kaveh Fayazbakhsh;Yin Lin;Amin Tootoonchian;Ali Ghodsi

600
Citations
Effective straggler mitigation: attack of the clones

Ganesh Ananthanarayanan;Ali Ghodsi;Scott Shenker;Ion Stoica

587
Citations
Naming in content-oriented architectures

Ali Ghodsi;Teemu Koponen;Jarno Rajahalme;Pasi Sarolahti

458
Citations
Automatic dimensionality selection from the scree plot via the use of profile likelihood

Mu Zhu;Ali Ghodsi

455
Citations
Tachyon: Reliable, Memory Speed Storage for Cluster Computing Frameworks

Haoyuan Li;Ali Ghodsi;Matei Zaharia;Scott Shenker

455
Citations
PACMan: coordinated memory caching for parallel jobs

Ganesh Ananthanarayanan;Ali Ghodsi;Andrew Wang;Dhruba Borthakur

405
Citations
Supervised principal component analysis: Visualization, classification and regression on subspaces and submanifolds

Elnaz Barshan;Ali Ghodsi;Zohreh Azimifar;Mansoor Zolghadri Jahromi

393
Citations
Deep learning enables de novo peptide sequencing from data-independent-acquisition mass spectrometry.

Ngoc Hieu Tran;Rui Qiao;Lei Xin;Xin Chen

352
Citations
Sentiment analysis based on improved pre-trained word embeddings

Seyed Mahdi Rezaeinia;Rouhollah Rahmani;Ali Ghodsi;Hadi Veisi

339
Citations
Bolt-on causal consistency

Peter Bailis;Ali Ghodsi;Joseph M. Hellerstein;Ion Stoica

303
Citations
Highly available transactions: virtues and limitations

Peter Bailis;Aaron Davidson;Alan Fekete;Ali Ghodsi

286
Citations
Software-defined internet architecture: decoupling architecture from infrastructure

Barath Raghavan;Martín Casado;Teemu Koponen;Sylvia Ratnasamy

264
Citations
Dimensionality Reduction A Short Tutorial

Ali Ghodsi

253
Citations
Eventual consistency today: limitations, extensions, and beyond

Peter Bailis;Ali Ghodsi

251
Citations
Multi-resource fair queueing for packet processing

Ali Ghodsi;Vyas Sekar;Matei Zaharia;Ion Stoica

248
Citations
HTTP as the narrow waist of the future internet

Lucian Popa;Ali Ghodsi;Ion Stoica

246
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ion Stoica University of California, Berkeley

Seif Haridi Royal Institute of Technology

Scott Shenker University of California, Berkeley

Matei Zaharia University of California, Berkeley

Peter Bailis Stanford University

Mohamed S. Kamel University of Waterloo

Joseph M. Hellerstein University of California, Berkeley

Alan Fekete University of Sydney

Michael J. Franklin University of Chicago

Fakhri Karray Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

External Links

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