2026 David K. Gifford: 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	1948	1886	986	948	189	23444

Research.com Recognitions

2011 - ACM Fellow For contributions to distributed systems, e-commerce and content distribution.
2000 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

David K. Gifford is affiliated with MIT in the United States and specializes in research areas encompassing Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology, Immunology, and Artificial Intelligence. Their work spans fields such as Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The scientist's research topics include vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, immunotherapy and immune responses, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, RNA research and splicing, genomics and chromatin dynamics, CRISPR and genetic engineering, and monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by David K. Gifford include:

Computationally Optimized SARS-CoV-2 MHC Class I and II Vaccine Formulations Predicted to Target Human Haplotype Distributions (2020, Cell Systems)
CAGI, the Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation, establishes progress and prospects for computational genetic variant interpretation methods (2024, Genome biology)
Predicted Cellular Immunity Population Coverage Gaps for SARS-CoV-2 Subunit Vaccines and Their Augmentation by Compact Peptide Sets (2020, Cell Systems)
Transcriptional dynamics of murine motor neuron maturation in vivo and in vitro (2022, Nature Communications)
An expansion of the non-coding genome and its regulatory potential underlies vertebrate neuronal diversity (2021, Neuron)

The venues where they have frequently published research include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), arXiv (Cornell University), Cell Systems, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and Genome biology.

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations are Brandon Carter, Richard I. Sherwood, Jennifer Hammelman, Siddhartha Jain, and Zheng Dai.

David K. Gifford has been recognized with professional distinctions including being named an ACM Fellow in 2011 for contributions to distributed systems, e-commerce, and content distribution, as well as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2000.

Best Publications

Transcriptional Regulatory Networks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Tong Ihn Lee;Nicola J. Rinaldi;François Robert;Duncan T. Odom

3923
Citations
Weighted voting for replicated data

David K. Gifford

2084
Citations
An improved map of conserved regulatory sites for Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Kenzie D MacIsaac;Ting Wang;D Benjamin Gordon;D Benjamin Gordon;David K Gifford

862
Citations
Computational discovery of gene modules and regulatory networks.

Ziv Bar-Joseph;Georg K Gerber;Tong Ihn Lee;Nicola J Rinaldi

826
Citations
Semantic file systems

David K. Gifford;Pierre Jouvelot;Mark A. Sheldon;James W. O'Toole

756
Citations
Polymorphic effect systems

J. M. Lucassen;D. K. Gifford

645
Citations
Fast optimal leaf ordering for hierarchical clustering.

Ziv Bar-Joseph;David K. Gifford;Tommi S. Jaakkola

631
Citations
Predictable and precise template-free CRISPR editing of pathogenic variants

Max W. Shen;Mandana Arbab;Jonathan Y. Hsu;Daniel Worstell

612
Citations
Using graphical models and genomic expression data to statistically validate models of genetic regulatory networks.

Alexander J. Hartemink;David K. Gifford;Tommi S. Jaakkola;Richard A. Young

596
Citations
Convolutional neural network architectures for predicting DNA–protein binding

Haoyang Zeng;Matthew D. Edwards;Ge Liu;David K. Gifford

544
Citations
Discovery of directional and nondirectional pioneer transcription factors by modeling DNase profile magnitude and shape

Richard I Sherwood;Tatsunori Hashimoto;Charles W O'Donnell;Charles W O'Donnell;Sophia Lewis

486
Citations
Rover: a toolkit for mobile information access

A. D. Joseph;A. F. de Lespinasse;J. A. Tauber;D. K. Gifford

467
Citations
Combining location and expression data for principled discovery of genetic regulatory network models.

Alexander J. Hartemink;David K. Gifford;Tommi S. Jaakkola;Richard A. Young

434
Citations
Remote evaluation

James W. Stamos;David K. Gifford

388
Citations
Continuous Representations of Time-Series Gene Expression Data

Ziv Bar-Joseph;Georg K. Gerber;David K. Gifford;Tommi S. Jaakkola

362
Citations
High Resolution Genome Wide Binding Event Finding and Motif Discovery Reveals Transcription Factor Spatial Binding Constraints

Yuchun Guo;Shaun Mahony;David K. Gifford

329
Citations
Integrating functional and imperative programming

David K. Gifford;John M. Lucassen

324
Citations
Mesh-based content routing using XML

Alex C. Snoeren;Kenneth Conley;David K. Gifford

306
Citations
A new approach to analyzing gene expression time series data

Ziv Bar-Joseph;Georg Gerber;David K. Gifford;Tommi S. Jaakkola

289
Citations
High-throughput mapping of regulatory DNA

Nisha Rajagopal;Sharanya Srinivasan;Sharanya Srinivasan;Kameron Kooshesh;Kameron Kooshesh;Yuchun Guo

289
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Tommi S. Jaakkola MIT

Richard A. Young MIT

Hynek Wichterle Columbia University

Gerald R. Fink MIT

Ernest Fraenkel MIT

Ziv Bar-Joseph Carnegie Mellon University

Alexander J. Hartemink Duke University

Julia Zeitlinger Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Douglas A. Melton Harvard University

Duncan T. Odom University of Cambridge

External Links

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