2026 Francine Berman: 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	47	6343	6159	2831	2727	134	13363

Research.com Recognitions

2019 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2009 - ACM - IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award For her influential leadership in the design, development and deployment of national-scale cyberinfrastructure, her inspiring work as a teacher and mentor, and her exemplary service to the high performance community.
2000 - ACM Fellow For pioneering work in application scheduling for parallel distributed computing.
Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration

Overview

Francine Berman is affiliated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the United States. Their research spans decision sciences and computer science, with a focus on subfields such as information systems and management, management science and operations research, computer networks and communications, and electrical and electronic engineering.

Their work addresses a range of topics including research data management practices, scientific computing and data management, data quality and management, opportunistic and delay-tolerant networks, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), and big data technologies and applications.

Frequent co-authors of Francine Berman include:

Mercè Crosas
Emilia Cabrera
Ali Jebari
Wassim Marrakchi
Jill Lepore

Several publication venues appear repeatedly in their profile, with multiple papers published in:

Harvard Data Science Review
Patterns

Recent notable papers authored by Francine Berman include:

"The Research Data Alliance: Benefits and Challenges of Building a Community Organization," 2020, Harvard Data Science Review
"The impact universe-a framework for prioritizing the public interest in the Internet of Things," 2022, Patterns
"The People Machine: The Earliest Machine Learning?," 2021, Harvard Data Science Review

Francine Berman's recognitions comprise several fellowships and awards, including:

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2019
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2014
ACM - IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award, 2009, for leadership in national-scale cyberinfrastructure design, teaching and mentoring, and service to the high performance community
ACM Fellow, 2000, for pioneering work in application scheduling for parallel distributed computing
Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration

Best Publications

Overview of the Book: Grid Computing – Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality

Fran Berman;Geoffrey Fox;Tony Hey;Tony Hey

1953
Citations
Heuristics for scheduling parameter sweep applications in grid environments

H. Casanova;A. Legrand;D. Zagorodnov;F. Berman

910
Citations
Application-Level Scheduling on Distributed Heterogeneous Networks

Francine D. Berman;Rich Wolski;Silvia Figueira;Jennifer Schopf

692
Citations
Adaptive computing on the Grid using AppLeS

F. Berman;R. Wolski;H. Casanova;W. Cirne

669
Citations
The AppLeS Parameter Sweep Template: User-Level Middleware for the Grid

H. Casanova;F. Berman;G. Obertelli;R. Wolski

583
Citations
The GrADS Project: Software Support for High-Level Grid Application Development

Francine Berman;Andrew Chien;Keith Cooper;Jack Dongarra

497
Citations
The AppLeS Parameter Sweep Template: User-Level Middleware for the Grid

Unknown

440
Citations
On mapping parallel algorithms into parallel architectures

Francine Berman;Lawrence Snyder

318
Citations
High-performance schedulers

Francine Berman

239
Citations
The Grid: Past, Present, Future

Fran Berman;Geoffrey Fox;Tony Hey;Tony Hey

232
Citations
TeraGrid: Analysis of organization, system architecture, and middleware enabling new types of applications

Charlie Catlett;William E. Allcock;Phil Andrews;Ruth A. Aydt

230
Citations
A comprehensive model of the supercomputer workload

W. Cirne;F. Berman

218
Citations
Scheduling from the perspective of the application

F. Berman;R. Wolski

212
Citations
New grid scheduling and rescheduling methods in the GrADS project

F. Berman;H. Casanova;A. Chien;K. Cooper

208
Citations
Toward a framework for preparing and executing adaptive grid programs

K. Kennedy;M. Mazina;J. Mellor-Crummey;K. Cooper

183
Citations
Got data?: a guide to data preservation in the information age

Francine Berman

176
Citations
Master/slave computing on the Grid

G. Shao;F. Berman;R. Wolski

173
Citations
A study of deadline scheduling for client-server systems on the Computational Grid

A. Takefusa;H. Casanova;S. Matsuoka;F. Berman

162
Citations
New grid scheduling and rescheduling methods in the GrADS project

K. Cooper;A. Dasgupta;K. Kennedy;C. Koelbel

157
Citations
A model for moldable supercomputer jobs

W. Cirne;F. Berman

153
Citations
From TeraGrid to Knowledge Grid.

Francine Berman

138
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Henri Casanova University of Hawaii at Manoa

Rich Wolski University of California, Santa Barbara

Jack Dongarra University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Daniel A. Reed University of Utah

Ken Kennedy Rice University

Geoffrey C. Fox University of Virginia

Carl Kesselman University of Southern California

Ian Foster University of Chicago

Keith D. Cooper Rice University

Andrew A. Chien University of Chicago

External Links

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