2026 Dharmendra S. Modha: 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	65	2397	2323	1197	1153	201	27448

Dharmendra S. Modha 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 Dharmendra S. Modha sits on this spectrum.

32 publications 991+

This scientist: 201 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Dharmendra S. Modha 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 Dharmendra S. Modha sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% 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

2009 - ACM Gordon Bell Prize The Cat is Out of the Bag: Cortical Simulations with 109 Neurons, 1013 Synapses

Overview

Dharmendra S. Modha is affiliated with IBM in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Computer Science and Engineering. Their work spans multiple subfields, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The areas of research and topics that Dharmendra S. Modha has been involved with include:

Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors
Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
Neural Networks and Applications
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Topic Modeling

Modha's recent publications reflect a concentration on neural networks, energy-efficient computation, and language model quantization. Notable papers include:

Neural inference at the frontier of energy, space, and time, 2023, published in Science
Efficient and Effective Methods for Mixed Precision Neural Network Quantization for Faster, Energy-efficient Inference, 2023, published on arXiv (Cornell University)
SiLQ: Simple Large Language Model Quantization-Aware Training, 2025, published on arXiv (Cornell University)

The venues where Modha has frequently published are arXiv (Cornell University), with two publications, and Science, with one publication.

Dharmendra S. Modha has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, including:

Steven K. Esser
Rathinakumar Appuswamy
Deepika Bablani
Jeffrey L. McKinstry
Filipp Akopyan

In 2009, Modha was awarded the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for work titled "The Cat is Out of the Bag: Cortical Simulations with 10^9 Neurons, 10^13 Synapses."

Best Publications

A million spiking-neuron integrated circuit with a scalable communication network and interface

Paul A. Merolla;John V. Arthur;Rodrigo Alvarez-Icaza;Andrew S. Cassidy

4322
Citations
Concept Decompositions for Large Sparse Text Data Using Clustering

Inderjit S. Dhillon;Dharmendra S. Modha

1975
Citations
Information-theoretic co-clustering

Inderjit S. Dhillon;Subramanyam Mallela;Dharmendra S. Modha

1725
Citations
TrueNorth: Design and Tool Flow of a 65 mW 1 Million Neuron Programmable Neurosynaptic Chip

Filipp Akopyan;Jun Sawada;Andrew Cassidy;Rodrigo Alvarez-Icaza

1659
Citations
ARC: a self-tuning, low overhead replacement cache

Nimrod Megiddo;Dharmendra S. Modha

1278
Citations
A Generalized Maximum Entropy Approach to Bregman Co-clustering and Matrix Approximation

Arindam Banerjee;Inderjit Dhillon;Joydeep Ghosh;Srujana Merugu

1102
Citations
Convolutional networks for fast, energy-efficient neuromorphic computing

Steven K. Esser;Paul A. Merolla;John V. Arthur;Andrew S. Cassidy

907
Citations
A Low Power, Fully Event-Based Gesture Recognition System

Arnon Amir;Brian Taba;David Berg;Timothy Melano

897
Citations
Backpropagation for energy-efficient neuromorphic computing

Steve K. Esser;Rathinakumar Appuswamy;Paul A. Merolla;John V. Arthur

693
Citations
A Data-Clustering Algorithm on Distributed Memory Multiprocessors

Inderjit S. Dhillon;Dharmendra S. Modha

620
Citations
A digital neurosynaptic core using embedded crossbar memory with 45pJ per spike in 45nm

Paul Merolla;John Arthur;Filipp Akopyan;Nabil Imam

575
Citations
Feature Weighting in k -Means Clustering

Dharmendra S. Modha;W. Scott Spangler

551
Citations
Cognitive computing

Dharmendra S. Modha;Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan;Steven K. Esser;Anthony Ndirango

482
Citations
A 45nm CMOS neuromorphic chip with a scalable architecture for learning in networks of spiking neurons

Jae-sun Seo;Bernard Brezzo;Yong Liu;Benjamin D. Parker

449
Citations
Fully automatic cross-associations

Deepayan Chakrabarti;Spiros Papadimitriou;Dharmendra S. Modha;Christos Faloutsos

389
Citations
The cat is out of the bag: cortical simulations with 109 neurons, 1013 synapses

Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan;Steven K. Esser;Horst D. Simon;Dharmendra S. Modha

388
Citations
CAR: Clock with Adaptive Replacement

Sorav Bansal;Dharmendra S. Modha

368
Citations
LEARNED STEP SIZE QUANTIZATION

Steven K. Esser;Jeffrey L. McKinstry;Deepika Bablani;Rathinakumar Appuswamy

367
Citations
System and method for adaptively managing pages in a memory

Nimrod Megiddo;Dharmendra Shantilal Modha

362
Citations
Network architecture of the long-distance pathways in the macaque brain

Dharmendra S. Modha;Raghavendra Singh

336
Citations
Outperforming LRU with an adaptive replacement cache algorithm

N. Megiddo;D.S. Modha

334
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Myron D. Flickner IBM (United States)

Arnon Amir IBM (United States)

Bipin Rajendran King's College London

Matthew J. Breitwisch IBM (United States)

Inderjit S. Dhillon Google (United States)

Rajit Manohar Yale University

Nimrod Megiddo IBM (United States)

Daniel J. Friedman IBM (United States)

Leland Chang IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center

Subramanian S. Iyer University of California, Los Angeles

External Links

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