2026 Divyakant Agrawal: 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	85	810	781	440	422	502	26292

Research.com Recognitions

2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2012 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to large-scale data management in distributed and networked systems
2011 - ACM Fellow For contributions to distributed data management systems.
2010 - ACM Distinguished Member
2008 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Divyakant Agrawal is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their work spans primarily the field of Computer Science with a focus on subfields such as Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Management Science and Operations Research, and Information Systems and Management.

Their research topics cover areas including Blockchain Technology Applications and Security, Distributed systems and fault tolerance, Data Quality and Management, Advanced Database Systems and Queries, Cloud Data Security Solutions, Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data, and Cloud Computing and Resource Management.

Recent publications by Divyakant Agrawal include:

KLL ^± approximate quantile sketches over dynamic datasets, 2021, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Qanaat, 2022, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
SEPAR: Towards Regulating Future of Work Multi-Platform Crowdworking Environments with Privacy Guarantees, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
Pantheon, 2022, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Napa, 2021, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Agrawal include:

Amr El Abbadi
Mohammad Javad Amiri
Fuheng Zhao
Sujaya Maiyya
Alexandra Meliou

The scientist publishes often in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
ACM SIGMOD Record
South Eastern European Journal of Public Health

Aside from journal and conference papers, Divyakant Agrawal has also contributed to book literature, with a publication titled "Blockchain-Enabled Large-Scale Transaction Management" expected in 2025, published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers.

Awards and recognitions include several fellowships and memberships:

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2016
IEEE Fellow, 2012, for contributions to large-scale data management in distributed and networked systems
ACM Fellow, 2011, for contributions to distributed data management systems
ACM Distinguished Member, 2010
ACM Senior Member, 2008

Best Publications

Limiting the spread of misinformation in social networks

Ceren Budak;Divyakant Agrawal;Amr El Abbadi

1027
Citations
Efficient computation of frequent and top-k elements in data streams

Ahmed Metwally;Divyakant Agrawal;Amr El Abbadi

889
Citations
Big data and cloud computing: current state and future opportunities

Divyakant Agrawal;Sudipto Das;Amr El Abbadi

828
Citations
Medians and beyond: new aggregation techniques for sensor networks

Nisheeth Shrivastava;Chiranjeeb Buragohain;Divyakant Agrawal;Subhash Suri

716
Citations
A game theoretic framework for incentives in P2P systems

C. Buragohain;D. Agrawal;S. Suri

485
Citations
Advanced transaction models in workflow contexts

G. Alonso;D. Agrawal;A. El Abbadi;M. Kamath

478
Citations
Meghdoot: content-based publish/subscribe over P2P networks

Abhishek Gupta;Ozgur D. Sahin;Divyakant Agrawal;Amr El Abbadi

467
Citations
An efficient and fault-tolerant solution for distributed mutual exclusion

Divyakant Agrawal;Amr El Abbadi

444
Citations
Efficient view maintenance at data warehouses

D. Agrawal;A. El Abbadi;A. Singh;T. Yurek

416
Citations
Dimensionality reduction for similarity searching in dynamic databases

K. V. Ravi Kanth;Divyakant Agrawal;Ambuj Singh

415
Citations
Supporting web query expansion efficiently using multi-granularity indexing and query processing

Wen-Syan Li;Divyakant Agrawal

387
Citations
A comparison of DFT and DWT based similarity search in time-series databases

Yi-Leh Wu;Divyakant Agrawal;Amr El Abbadi

362
Citations
G-Store: a scalable data store for transactional multi key access in the cloud

Sudipto Das;Divyakant Agrawal;Amr El Abbadi

353
Citations
Reverse Nearest Neighbor Queries for Dynamic Databases.

Ioana Stanoi;Divyakant Agrawal;Amr El Abbadi

340
Citations
Zephyr: live migration in shared nothing databases for elastic cloud platforms

Aaron J. Elmore;Sudipto Das;Divyakant Agrawal;Amr El Abbadi

323
Citations
Exotica/FMQM: A Persistent Message-Based Architecture for Distributed Workflow Management

G. Alonso;C. Mohan;R. Günthör;D. Agrawal

317
Citations
MD-HBase: A Scalable Multi-dimensional Data Infrastructure for Location Aware Services

Shoji Nishimura;Sudipto Das;Divyakant Agrawal;Amr El Abbadi

310
Citations
Twig2Stack: bottom-up processing of generalized-tree-pattern queries over XML documents

Songting Chen;Hua-Gang Li;Junichi Tatemura;Wang-Pin Hsiung

300
Citations
Database Management as a Service: Challenges and Opportunities

Divyakant Agrawal;Amr El Abbadi;Fatih Emekci;Ahmed Metwally

283
Citations
ElasTraS: an elastic transactional data store in the cloud

Sudipto Das;Divyakant Agrawal;Amr El Abbadi

282
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Amr El Abbadi University of California, Santa Barbara

K. Selçuk Candan Arizona State University

Ambuj K. Singh University of California, Santa Barbara

Gustavo Alonso ETH Zurich

Terence R. Smith University of California, Santa Barbara

Sunil Prabhakar Purdue University West Lafayette

Subhash Suri University of California, Santa Barbara

Beng Chin Ooi National University of Singapore

Chandrasekaran Mohan IBM (United States)

Kian-Lee Tan National University of Singapore

External Links

Personal website of Divyakant Agrawal Google Scholar page

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