2026 David Kotz: 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	76	1333	1292	700	674	348	25566

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - ACM Fellow For contributions to the security, privacy, and usability of mobile systems
2018 - ACM Distinguished Member
2009 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to parallel and distributed systems and wireless networks
2006 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

David Kotz is a researcher affiliated with Dartmouth College in the United States. Their scholarly work spans the fields of Computer Science and Medicine, with a focus on interdisciplinary approaches to health-related technology and behavioral interventions.

The main fields of study for Kotz include:

Computer Science
Medicine

Subfields of study covered in their research are:

General Health Professions
Applied Psychology
Physiology
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

The topics frequently addressed in Kotz's work include:

Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
Digital Mental Health Interventions
Behavioral Health and Interventions
Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
Technology Use by Older Adults
Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring

Notable recent publications by Kotz cover a variety of subjects within these domains:

"Which Components of a Smartphone Walking App Help Users to Reach Personalized Step Goals? Results From an Optimization Trial" (2020), Annals of Behavioral Medicine
"Feasibility and acceptability of a technology-based, rural weight management intervention in older adults with obesity" (2021), BMC Geriatrics
"The application of digital health to the assessment and treatment of substance use disorders: The past, current, and future role of the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network" (2020), Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
"Evaluating the Reproducibility of Physiological Stress Detection Models" (2020), Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
"Continuous Detection of Physiological Stress with Commodity Hardware" (2020), ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare

Kotz collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

John A. Batsis
Varun Mishra
Elgar Fleisch
Tobias Kowatsch
Curtis L. Petersen

Their work is published often in these venues:

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare
Journal of Medical Internet Research
arXiv (Cornell University)
Annals of Behavioral Medicine

David Kotz has received recognition through multiple professional awards including:

ACM Fellow (2020) for contributions to the security, privacy, and usability of mobile systems
ACM Distinguished Member (2018)
IEEE Fellow (2009) for contributions to parallel and distributed systems and wireless networks
ACM Senior Member (2006)

Best Publications

A Survey of Context-Aware Mobile Computing Research

Guanling Chen;David Kotz

3359
Citations
Analysis of a campus-wide wireless network

David Kotz;Kobby Essien

1459
Citations
The changing usage of a mature campus-wide wireless network

Tristan Henderson;David Kotz;Ilya Abyzov

1328
Citations
Development and Usability Assessment of a Connected Resistance Exercise Band Application for Strength-Monitoring.

John A Batsis;George G Boateng;Lillian M Seo;Curtis L Petersen

836
Citations
Extracting a Mobility Model from Real User Traces

M. Kim;D. Kotz;S. Kim

743
Citations
Disk-directed I/O for MIMD multiprocessors

David Kotz

721
Citations
Experimental evaluation of wireless simulation assumptions

David Kotz;Calvin Newport;Robert S. Gray;Jason Liu

715
Citations
Mobile agents and the future of the internet

David Kotz;Robert S. Gray

579
Citations
Anonysense: privacy-aware people-centric sensing

Cory Cornelius;Apu Kapadia;David Kotz;Dan Peebles

545
Citations
The Galley parallel file system

Nils Nieuwejaar;David Kotz

431
Citations
Evaluating location predictors with extensive Wi-Fi mobility data

L. Song;D. Kotz;R. Jain;Xiaoning He

418
Citations
Detecting 802.11 MAC Layer Spoofing Using Received Signal Strength

Yong Sheng;K. Tan;Guanling Chen;D. Kotz

369
Citations
The mistaken axioms of wireless-network research

David Kotz;Calvin Newport;Chip Elliott

357
Citations
Mobile Agents for Distributed Information Retrieval

Brian Brewington;Robert Gray;Katsuhiro Moizumi;David Kotz

325
Citations
Privacy in mobile technology for personal healthcare

Sasikanth Avancha;Amit Baxi;David Kotz

322
Citations
D'Agents: Security in a Multiple-Language, Mobile-Agent System

Robert S. Gray;David Kotz;George Cybenko;Daniela Rus

315
Citations
Agent TCL: targeting the needs of mobile computers

David Kotz;Robert Gray;Saurab Nog;Daniela Rus

300
Citations
Methods and apparatus for personalized content presentation

David Kotz;Daniela Rus;David Marmaros;John Artz

300
Citations
File-access characteristics of parallel scientific workloads

N. Nieuwejaar;D. Kotz;A. Purakayastha;C. Sclatter Ellis

296
Citations
Mobile Agents: Motivations and State-of-the-Art Systems

Robert S. Gray;David Kotz;George Cybenko;Daniela Rus

281
Citations
CRAWDAD: A Community Resource for Archiving Wireless Data at Dartmouth

D. Kotz;T. Henderson

236
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniela Rus MIT

George Cybenko Dartmouth College

Xiaohui Liang University of Massachusetts Boston

Carla Schlatter Ellis Duke University

Apu Kapadia Indiana University

Javed A. Aslam Northeastern University

Andrew T. Campbell Dartmouth College

Elgar Fleisch ETH Zurich

Lisa A. Marsch Dartmouth College

Alok Choudhary Northwestern University

External Links

Personal website of David Kotz Google Scholar page

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