2026 Chandrajit L. Bajaj: 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	69	2004	1942	1009	971	374	15843

Research.com Recognitions

2016 - SIAM Fellow For fundamental contributions to applied mathematics algorithms in geometric modeling, imaging science, bioinformatics, and data visualization.
2014 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to image processing, scientific visualization, and computational biology
2009 - ACM Fellow For contributions to algorithms for geometric design, scientific visualization, computational biology and bioinformatics.
2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Chandrajit L. Bajaj is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their scholarly work spans multiple disciplines, predominantly within computer science and engineering.

The primary fields of study associated with their research include Computer Science and Engineering. Within these areas, Bajaj's contributions cover several subfields such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Mechanics, Media Technology, and Control and Systems Engineering.

The scientist's research topics focus on advanced techniques and methodologies including:

Advanced Image Processing Techniques
3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
Image and Signal Denoising Methods
Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
Gaussian Processes and Bayesian Inference
Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
Model Reduction and Neural Networks

Bajaj has published extensively, with a notable record in both journal articles and conference proceedings. Frequent publication venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
Machine Learning Science and Technology
Journal of Applied Physics
Electronics

Among recent papers, the following stand out:

"Materials for emergent silicon-integrated optical computing," 2021, Journal of Applied Physics
"Weighted Random Forests to Improve Arrhythmia Classification," 2020, Electronics
"Recipes for when physics fails: recovering robust learning of physics informed neural networks," 2023, Machine Learning Science and Technology
"Scene Synthesis via Uncertainty-Driven Attribute Synchronization," 2021, 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
"E-CIR: Event-Enhanced Continuous Intensity Recovery," 2022, 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Bajaj collaborates regularly with several coauthors, including Qixing Huang, Chen Song, Hepzibah A. Christinal, D. Abraham Chandy, and Minh Tho Nguyen.

The scientist has been recognized by multiple professional organizations. Awards and honors include:

SIAM Fellow (2016) for contributions to applied mathematics algorithms in geometric modeling, imaging science, bioinformatics, and data visualization
IEEE Fellow (2014) for contributions to image processing, scientific visualization, and computational biology
ACM Fellow (2009) for contributions to algorithms for geometric design, scientific visualization, computational biology, and bioinformatics
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2008)

Best Publications

The contour spectrum

Chandrajit L. Bajaj;Valerio Pascucci;Daniel R. Schikore

939
Citations
Patient-Specific Vascular NURBS Modeling for Isogeometric Analysis of Blood Flow

Yongjie Jessica Zhang;Yuri Bazilevs;Samrat Goswami;Chandrajit L Bajaj

565
Citations
Automatic reconstruction of surfaces and scalar fields from 3D scans

Chandrajit L. Bajaj;Fausto Bernardini;Guoliang Xu

546
Citations
Contour trees and small seed sets for isosurface traversal

Marc van Kreveld;René van Oostrum;Chandrajit Bajaj;Valerio Pascucci

468
Citations
The transfer function bake-off

H. Pfister;B. Lorensen;C. Bajaj;G. Kindlmann

454
Citations
Anisotropic diffusion of surfaces and functions on surfaces

Chandrajit L. Bajaj;Guoliang Xu

395
Citations
Tracing surface intersections

C. L. Bajaj;C. M. Hoffman;R. E. Lynch;J. E. H. Hopcroft

394
Citations
Immersed finite element method and its applications to biological systems.

Wing Kam Liu;Yaling Liu;David Farrell;Lucy Zhang

378
Citations
Arbitrary topology shape reconstruction from planar cross sections

Chandrajit L. Bajaj;Edward J. Coyle;Kwun-Nan Lin

314
Citations
Single resolution compression of arbitrary triangular meshes with properties

Chandrajit L. Bajaj;Valerio Pascucci;Guozhong Zhuang

309
Citations
Adaptive and Quality Quadrilateral/Hexahedral Meshing from Volumetric Data

Yongjie Zhang;Chandrajit L Bajaj

297
Citations
Fast isocontouring for improved interactivity

Chandrajit L. Bajaj;Valerio Pascucci;Daniel R. Schikore

294
Citations
Sampling and Reconstructing Manifolds Using Alpha-Shapes

Fausto Bernardini;Chandrajit L. Bajaj

262
Citations
3D Finite Element Meshing from Imaging Data

Yongjie Zhang;Chandrajit L Bajaj;Bong Soo Sohn

255
Citations
AUTOMATIC RECONSTRUCTION OF 3D CAD MODELS FROM DIGITAL SCANS

Fausto Bernardini;Chandrajit L. Bajaj;Jindong Chen;Daniel R. Schikore

210
Citations
Surface Smoothing and Quality Improvement of Quadrilateral/Hexahedral Meshes with Geometric Flow

Yongjie Zhang;Chandrajit Bajaj;Guoliang Xu

200
Citations
Modeling with cubic A-patches

Chandrajit L. Bajaj;Jindon Chen;Guoliang Xu

197
Citations
Automatic parameterization of rational curves and surfaces III: algebraic plane curves

S. S. Abhyankar;C. L. Bajaj

196
Citations
Convex decomposition of polyhedra and robustness

Chanderjit L. Bajaj;Tamal K. Dey

184
Citations
Automatic particle selection: Results of a comparative study

Yuanxin Zhu;Bridget Carragher;Robert M. Glaeser;Denis Fellmann

178
Citations
Auralization i: vortex sound synthesis

Youngin Shin;Chandrajit Bajaj

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Valerio Pascucci University of Utah

Yongjie Zhang Carnegie Mellon University

Terrence J. Sejnowski Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Joachim Frank Columbia University

John D. Owens University of California, Davis

Tamal K. Dey Purdue University West Lafayette

James C. Browne The University of Texas at Austin

Eric Westhof University of Strasbourg

David F. Stowe Medical College of Wisconsin

Kristen M. Harris The University of Texas at Austin

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