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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Ashish Goel is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields, with a primary focus on Physics and Astronomy. Within this broad domain, Goel's work covers subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Management Science and Operations Research, Economics and Econometrics, and Aerospace Engineering.

The scientist has contributed to various main topics of research, such as Auction Theory and Applications, Planetary Science and Exploration, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Astro and Planetary Science, Game Theory and Voting Systems, Ionosphere and Magnetosphere Dynamics, and Digital Marketing and Social Media.

Goel has published extensively, with frequent appearances in notable venues. The top publication sources include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Planetary Science Journal
  • Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Among Goel's recent papers are the following:

  • The impossibility of low-rank representations for triangle-rich complex networks, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Dynamic PageRank: Algorithms and Lower Bounds, 2024, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • Geophysical Observations of the 2023 September 24 OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Capsule Reentry, 2024, The Planetary Science Journal
  • JUE insights: Does mobility explain why slums were hit harder by COVID-19 in Mumbai, India?, 2021, Journal of Urban Economics
  • Advertising for Demographically Fair Outcomes, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors, these include:

  • Bryan Chan
  • Jonathan Kosh
  • Kevin J. Nelson
  • Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay
  • Tyler Reid

In recognition of their work, Ashish Goel received the Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Approximation Algorithms for Directed Steiner Problems

    Moses Charikar;Chandra Chekuri;To-yat Cheung;Zuo Dai

  • Matching output queueing with a combined input/output-queued switch

    Shang-Tse Chuang;A. Goel;N. McKeown;B. Prabhakar

  • WTF: the who to follow service at Twitter

    Pankaj Gupta;Ashish Goel;Jimmy Lin;Aneesh Sharma

  • Set k-cover algorithms for energy efficient monitoring in wireless sensor networks

    Zoë Abrams;Ashish Goel;Serge Plotkin

  • Simultaneous Optimization for Concave Costs: Single Sink Aggregation or Single Source Buy-at-Bulk

    Ashish Goel;Deborah Estrin

  • Truthful auctions for pricing search keywords

    Gagan Aggarwal;Ashish Goel;Rajeev Motwani

  • Fast incremental and personalized PageRank

    Bahman Bahmani;Abdur Chowdhury;Ashish Goel

  • Delay efficient sleep scheduling in wireless sensor networks

    G. Lu;N. Sadagopan;B. Krishnamachari;A. Goel

  • Biased assimilation, homophily, and the dynamics of polarization

    Pranav Dandekar;Ashish Goel;David Lee

  • Matching output queueing with a combined input output queued switch

    Shang-Tse Chuang;A. Goel;N. McKeown;B. Prabhakar

  • Error free self-assembly using error prone tiles

    Ho-Lin Chen;Ashish Goel

  • Running time and program size for self-assembled squares

    Leonard Adleman;Qi Cheng;Ashish Goel;Ming-Deh Huang

  • Approximating a finite metric by a small number of tree metrics

    M. Charikar;C. Chekuri;A. Goel;S. Guha

  • Part III: routers with very small buffers

    Mihaela Enachescu;Yashar Ganjali;Ashish Goel;Nick McKeown

  • Using the small-world model to improve Freenet performance

    Hui Zhang;A. Goel;R. Govindan

  • Routers with Very Small Buffers

    M. Enachescu;Y. Ganjali;A. Goel;N. McKeown

  • Stochastic load balancing and related problems

    A. Goel;P. Indyk

  • Rounding via trees: deterministic approximation algorithms for group Steiner trees and k-median

    Moses Charikar;Chandra Chekuri;Ashish Goel;Sudipto Guha

  • Combinatorial optimization problems in self-assembly

    Len Adleman;Qi Cheng;Ashish Goel;Ming-Deh Huang

  • Personalized PageRank Estimation and Search: A Bidirectional Approach

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  • Efficient computation of delay-sensitive routes from one source to all destinations

    A. Goel;K.G. Ramakrishnan;D. Kataria;D. Logothetis

Frequent Co-Authors

Kamesh Munagala
Kamesh Munagala Duke University
Ramesh Govindan
Ramesh Govindan University of Southern California
Sanjeev Khanna
Sanjeev Khanna University of Pennsylvania
Serge Plotkin
Serge Plotkin Stanford University
Sudipto Guha
Sudipto Guha University of Pennsylvania
Rajeev Motwani
Rajeev Motwani Stanford University
Chandra Chekuri
Chandra Chekuri University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nick McKeown
Nick McKeown Stanford University
John Heidemann
John Heidemann University of Southern California
Bhaskar Krishnamachari
Bhaskar Krishnamachari University of Southern California

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