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Francis Y. L. Chin

Francis Y. L. Chin

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
47
Citations
12628
World Ranking
6354
National Ranking
844

Francis Y. L. Chin 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 Francis Y. L. Chin sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 230 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Francis Y. L. Chin 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 Francis Y. L. Chin sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 56th percentile

56% 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

  • 1996 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to developments in parallel and distributed computing and to computer science education.

Overview

Francis Y. L. Chin is affiliated with the University of Hong Kong in China. Their research specializes in the fields of Computer Science, with a particular focus on Computational Theory and Mathematics.

Their work spans several main topics including:

  • Advanced Graph Theory Research
  • Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs
  • Graph Labeling and Dimension Problems

Chin has contributed to the academic community through publications primarily in the journal Discrete Applied Mathematics. A recent paper titled A linear-time certifying algorithm for recognizing generalized series-parallel graphs was published in 2022 in this journal.

Frequent collaborators of Chin include:

  • Hing-Fung Ting
  • Yung H. Tsin
  • Yong Zhang

Throughout their career, Chin has been recognized with awards such as the IEEE Fellow in 1996, acknowledging contributions to parallel and distributed computing as well as computer science education.

Best Publications

  • IDBA-UD

    Yu Peng;Henry C. M. Leung;S. M. Yiu;Francis Y. L. Chin

  • Improved On-Line Broadcast Scheduling with Deadlines

    Feifeng Zheng;Stanley P. Y. Fung;Wun-Tat Chan;Francis Y. L. Chin

  • Meta-IDBA

    Yu Peng;Henry C. M. Leung;S. M. Yiu;Francis Y. L. Chin

  • IDBA: a practical iterative de bruijn graph de novo assembler

    Yu Peng;Henry C. M. Leung;S. M. Yiu;Francis Y. L. Chin

  • Finding the Medial Axis of a Simple Polygon in Linear Time

    Francis Y. L. Chin;Jack Snoeyink;Cao An Wang

  • Cellular adhesiveness and cellulolytic capacity in Anaerolineae revealed by omics-based genome interpretation.

    Yu Xia;Yubo Wang;Yi Wang;Francis Y. L. Chin;Francis Y. L. Chin

  • Efficient parallel algorithms for some graph problems

    Francis Y. Chin;John Lam;I-Ngo Chen

  • Auditing and Inference Control in Statistical Databases

    F.Y. Chin;G. Ozsoyoglu

  • Predicting protein complexes from PPI data: a core-attachment approach.

    Henry C. M. Leung;Qian Xiang;Siu-Ming Yiu;Francis Y. L. Chin

  • IDBA-tran: a more robust de novo de Bruijn graph assembler for transcriptomes with uneven expression levels.

    Yu Peng;Henry C. M. Leung;Siu-Ming Yiu;Ming-Ju Lv

  • Packing squares into a square

    Joseph Y.-T. Leung;Tommy W. Tam;C. S. Wong;Gilbert H. Young

  • APPROXIMATION OF POLYGONAL CURVES WITH MINIMUM NUMBER OF LINE SEGMENTS OR MINIMUM ERROR

    W.S. Chan;F. Chin

  • MetaCluster 5.0

    Yi Wang;Henry C.M. Leung;S.M. Yiu;Francis Y.L. Chin

  • Algorithms for updating minimal spanning trees

    Francis Y. L. Chin;David Houck

  • General schedulers for the pinwheel problem based on double-integer reduction

    M.Y. Chan;F.Y.L. Chin

  • Schedulers for larger classes of pinwheel instances

    Mee Yee Chan;Francis Y. L. Chin

  • A simple algorithm for the constrained sequence problems

    Francis Y. L. Chin;Alfredo De Santis;Anna Lisa Ferrara;N. L. Ho

  • Voting algorithms for discovering long motifs.

    Francis Y. L. Chin;Henry C. M. Leung

  • Statistical database design

    Francis Y. Chin;Gultekin Ozsoyoglu

  • Scheduling the Open Shop to Minimize Mean Flow Time

    James O. Achugbue;Francis Y. L. Chin

Frequent Co-Authors

Siu-Ming Yiu
Siu-Ming Yiu University of Hong Kong
Hong Shen
Hong Shen Sun Yat-sen University
Keqiu Li
Keqiu Li Tianjin University
Marek Chrobak
Marek Chrobak University of California, Riverside
Ming-Yang Kao
Ming-Yang Kao Northwestern University
Tak-Wah Lam
Tak-Wah Lam University of Hong Kong
Jack Snoeyink
Jack Snoeyink University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Danny Z. Chen
Danny Z. Chen University of Notre Dame
Chris Chu
Chris Chu Iowa State University
Tong Zhang
Tong Zhang University of Hong Kong

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