2026 Carla P. Gomes: 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	55	4318	4198	2027	1956	269	12035

Research.com Recognitions

2017 - ACM Fellow For establishing the field of computational sustainability, and for foundational contributions to artificial intelligence
2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Carla P. Gomes is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has a substantial record in computer science research with a focus on artificial intelligence and materials chemistry. Their main field of study is computer science, with 83 publications in the area.

The scientist's subfields of study include:

Artificial Intelligence
Materials Chemistry
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Ecology
Computational Theory and Mathematics

Key topics explored in their research encompass:

Machine Learning in Materials Science
X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
Marine and coastal plant biology
Water resources management and optimization
Computational Drug Discovery Methods
Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
Reinforcement Learning in Robotics

Notable recent publications include:

Scientific discovery in the age of artificial intelligence, 2023, Nature
Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning, 2022, OPUS 4 (Zuse Institute Berlin)
Autonomous experimentation systems for materials development: A community perspective, 2021, Matter
Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning, 2022, ACM Computing Surveys
Reducing adverse impacts of Amazon hydropower expansion, 2022, Science

The scientist collaborates frequently with the following co-authors:

John M. Gregoire
Sebastian Ament
Yuanqi Du
Alexander S. Flecker
Kilian Q. Weinberger

The venues where their work commonly appears include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Nature
npj Computational Materials
Nature Machine Intelligence

Carla P. Gomes has been recognized with the following awards:

ACM Fellow, 2017, for establishing the field of computational sustainability and for foundational contributions to artificial intelligence
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2013

Best Publications

The eBird enterprise: An integrated approach to development and application of citizen science

Brian L. Sullivan;Jocelyn L. Aycrigg;Jessie H. Barry;Rick E. Bonney

1164
Citations
Boosting combinatorial search through randomization

Carla P. Gomes;Bart Selman;Henry Kautz

891
Citations
Algorithm portfolios

Carla P. Gomes;Bart Selman

572
Citations
Heavy-Tailed Phenomena in Satisfiability and Constraint Satisfaction Problems

Carla P. Gomes;Bart Selman;Nuno Crato;Henry Kautz

561
Citations
Backdoors to typical case complexity

Ryan Williams;Carla P. Gomes;Bart Selman

447
Citations
Heavy-tailed distributions in combinatorial search

Carla P. Gomes;Bart Selman;Nuno Crato

398
Citations
Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning

David Rolnick;Priya L. Donti;Lynn H. Kaack;Kelly Kochanski

288
Citations
Generating Satisfiable Problem Instances

Dimitris Achlioptas;Carla P. Gomes;Henry A. Kautz;Bart Selman

246
Citations
Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing - SAT 2006

Armin Biere;Carla P. Gomes

237
Citations
Understanding Batch Normalization

Nils Bjorck;Carla P. Gomes;Bart Selman;Kilian Q. Weinberger

231
Citations
Chapter 2 Satisfiability Solvers

Carla P. Gomes;Henry Kautz;Ashish Sabharwal;Bart Selman

207
Citations
Problem structure in the presence of perturbations

Carla P. Gomes;Bart Selman

195
Citations
Dynamic restart policies

Henry Kautz;Eric Horvitz;Yongshao Ruan;Carla Gomes

174
Citations
A Bayesian Approach to Tackling Hard Computational Problems

Eric Horvitz;Yongshao Ruan;Carla P. Gomes;Henry A. Kautz

174
Citations
A Bayesian Approach to Tackling Hard Computational Problems (Preliminary Report)

Eric Horvitz;Yongshao Ruan;Carla Gomes;Henry Kautz

167
Citations
Model counting: a new strategy for obtaining good bounds

Carla P. Gomes;Ashish Sabharwal;Bart Selman

158
Citations
Algorithm portfolio design: theory vs. practice

Carla P. Gomes;Bart Selman

139
Citations
Computational Sustainability: Computational methods for a sustainable environment, economy, and society

Carla P. Gomes

135
Citations
Completing Quasigroups or Latin Squares: A Structured Graph Coloring Problem

Carla P. Gomes;David Shmoys

134
Citations
Near-Uniform Sampling of Combinatorial Spaces Using XOR Constraints

Carla P Gomes;Ashish Sabharwal;Bart Selman

127
Citations
Understanding Batch Normalization

Johan Bjorck;Carla Gomes;Bart Selman;Kilian Q. Weinberger

16
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Bart Selman Cornell University

Ashish Sabharwal Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Stefano Ermon Stanford University

John M. Gregoire California Institute of Technology

Henry Kautz University of Virginia

David B. Shmoys Cornell University

Jörg Hoffmann Saarland University

Eric Horvitz Microsoft (United States)

Kilian Q. Weinberger Cornell University

Bhaskar Krishnamachari University of Southern California

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