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Dan Gusfield publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dan Gusfield sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 182 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Dan Gusfield D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dan Gusfield sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - ACM Fellow For contributions to combinatorial optimization and to algorithmic computational biology
  • 2016 - Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology
  • 2015 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to combinatorial optimization and computational biology

Overview

Dan Gusfield is affiliated with the University of California, Davis, in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a primary focus on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and computer science.

The researcher has contributed to various subfields, including:

  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics

The main topics in their work cover a range of computational and biological themes such as:

  • Genome Rearrangement Algorithms
  • DNA and Biological Computing
  • Algorithms and Data Compression
  • Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation
  • Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs
  • Optimization and Search Problems
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

One of Dan Gusfield's recent papers is titled Matrix Chain Multiplication and Polygon Triangulation Revisited and Generalized, published in 2021 in arXiv (Cornell University).

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Hannah Brown
  • Lei Zuo
  • Thong Le

Dan Gusfield has a book publication with Cambridge University Press:

  • Proven Impossible, published in 2024

The researcher has been recognized with several awards:

  • ACM Fellow (2017) for contributions to combinatorial optimization and to algorithmic computational biology
  • Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (2016)
  • IEEE Fellow (2015) for contributions to combinatorial optimization and computational biology

Best Publications

  • Algorithms on Strings, Trees and Sequences: Computer Science and Computational Biology

    Dan Gusfield

  • Algorithms on strings, trees, and sequences

    Dan Gusfield

  • The Stable Marriage Problem: Structure and Algorithms

    Dan Gusfield;Robert W. Irving

  • Efficient algorithms for inferring evolutionary trees

    Dan Gusfield

  • An efficient algorithm for the “optimal” stable marriage

    Robert W. Irving;Paul Leather;Dan Gusfield

  • Efficient methods for multiple sequence alignment with guaranteed error bounds

    Dan Gusfield

  • Haplotyping as perfect phylogeny: conceptual framework and efficient solutions

    Dan Gusfield

  • A Fast Algorithm for Optimally Increasing the Edge Connectivity

    Dalit Naor;Dan Gusfield;Charles Martel

  • Very simple methods for all pairs network flow analysis

    Dan Gusfield

  • Haplotype inference by pure Parsimony

    Dan Gusfield

  • Inference of haplotypes from samples of diploid populations: complexity and algorithms.

    Dan Gusfield

  • Algorithms on Strings, Trees, and Sequences: Computer Science and Computational Biology

    Susan P. Holmes;Dan Gusfield

  • Efficient methods for multiple sequence alignment with guaranteed error bounds

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  • OPTIMAL, EFFICIENT RECONSTRUCTION OF PHYLOGENETIC NETWORKS WITH CONSTRAINED RECOMBINATION

    Dan Gusfield;Satish Eddhu;Charles H. Langley

  • Three fast algorithms for four problems in stable marriage

    Dan Gusfield

  • Partition-distance: A problem and class of perfect graphs arising in clustering

    Dan Gusfield

  • Haplotyping as Perfect Phylogeny: A Direct Approach

    Vineet Bafna;Dan Gusfield;Giuseppe Lancia;Shibu Yooseph

  • Connectivity and edge-disjoint spanning trees

    Dan Gusfield

  • Linear time algorithms for finding and representing all the tandem repeats in a string

    Dan Gusfield;Jens Stoye

  • Parametric optimization of sequence alignment

    D. Gusfield;K. Balasubramanian;D. Naor

  • Algorithms in Bioinformatics

    Roderic Guigó;Dan Gusfield

  • Algorithms in bioinformatics : Second International Workshop, WABI 2002, Rome, Italy, September 17-21, 2002 : proceedings

    Roderic Guigó;Dan Gusfield

Frequent Co-Authors

Lusheng Wang
Lusheng Wang City University of Hong Kong
Charles U. Martel
Charles U. Martel University of California, Davis
Yun S. Song
Yun S. Song University of California, Berkeley
Charles H. Langley
Charles H. Langley University of California, Davis
Robert W. Irving
Robert W. Irving University of Glasgow
Jens Stoye
Jens Stoye Bielefeld University
Vineet Bafna
Vineet Bafna University of California, San Diego
Shibu Yooseph
Shibu Yooseph University of Central Florida
Roderic Guigó
Roderic Guigó Pompeu Fabra University
Maxime Crochemore
Maxime Crochemore King's College London

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