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Gopal Pandurangan 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 Gopal Pandurangan sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 175 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gopal Pandurangan 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 Gopal Pandurangan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% 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 Senior Member

Overview

Gopal Pandurangan is affiliated with the University of Houston in the United States. Their research spans primarily the field of Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence, and Computational Theory and Mathematics. Their work also touches on Statistics and Probability as well as Modeling and Simulation.

Their main research topics include distributed systems and fault tolerance, complexity and algorithms in graphs, privacy-preserving technologies in data, cryptography and data security, caching and content delivery, optimization and search problems, and cooperative communication and network coding.

Frequent coauthors of Pandurangan are Fabien Dufoulon, William K. Moses, Peter Robinson, John Augustine, and Anisur Rahaman Molla.

The scientist has contributed to various publication venues, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • Padua Research Archive (University of Padua)
  • 2022 IEEE 42nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
  • PLoS ONE

Sample recent papers authored or coauthored by Gopal Pandurangan include:

  • "On the distributed complexity of large-scale graph computations," 2021, Padua Research Archive (University of Padua)
  • "Scalable and Secure Computation Among Strangers: Message-Competitive Byzantine Protocols," 2020, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • "Awake-Efficient Distributed Algorithms for Maximal Independent Set," 2022, 2022 IEEE 42nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
  • "A time- and message-optimal distributed algorithm for minimum spanning trees," 2020, Padua Research Archive (University of Padua)
  • "The Message Complexity of Distributed Graph Optimization," 2023, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)

Gopal Pandurangan was awarded the ACM Senior Member designation in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Building low-diameter peer-to-peer networks

    G. Pandurangan;P. Raghavan;E. Upfal

  • Building low-diameter P2P networks

    G. Pandurangan;P. Raghavan;E. Upfal

  • Using PageRank to Characterize Web Structure

    Gopal Pandurangan;Prabhakar Raghavan;Eli Upfal

  • Robust Computation of Aggregates in Wireless Sensor Networks: Distributed Randomized Algorithms and Analysis

    J.-Y. Chen;G. Pandurangan;D. Xu

  • Distributed Verification and Hardness of Distributed Approximation

    Atish Das Sarma;Stephan Holzer;Liah Kor;Amos Korman

  • Fast Distributed PageRank Computation

    Atish Das Sarma;Anisur Rahaman Molla;Gopal Pandurangan;Gopal Pandurangan;Eli Upfal

  • Distributed Algorithms for Constructing Approximate Minimum Spanning Trees in Wireless Sensor Networks

    M. Khan;G. Pandurangan;V.S. Anil Kumar

  • Fast Distributed PageRank Computation

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  • The bin-covering technique for thresholding random geometric graph properties

    S. Muthukrishnan;Gopal Pandurangan

  • Toward Optimal Bounds in the Congested Clique: Graph Connectivity and MST

    James W. Hegeman;Gopal Pandurangan;Sriram V. Pemmaraju;Vivek B. Sardeshmukh

  • Robust computation of aggregates in wireless sensor networks: distributed randomized algorithms and analysis

    Jen-Yeu Chen;Gopal Pandurangan;Dongyan Xu

  • Distance Matrix Reconstruction from Incomplete Distance Information for Sensor Network Localization

    P. Drineas;A. Javed;M. Magdon-Ismail;G. Pandurangan

  • A fast distributed approximation algorithm for minimum spanning trees

    Maleq Khan;Gopal Pandurangan

  • On the Complexity of Universal Leader Election

    Shay Kutten;Gopal Pandurangan;David Peleg;Peter Robinson

  • Towards robust and efficient computation in dynamic peer-to-peer networks

    John Augustine;Gopal Pandurangan;Peter Robinson;Eli Upfal

  • Distributed computation of large-scale graph problems

    Hartmut Klauck;Danupon Nanongkai;Gopal Pandurangan;Peter Robinson

  • Distributed verification and hardness of distributed approximation

    Atish Das Sarma;Stephan Holzer;Liah Kor;Amos Korman

  • Distributed quantum computing: a new frontier in distributed systems or science fiction?

    Vasil S. Denchev;Gopal Pandurangan

  • Efficient distributed approximation algorithms via probabilistic tree embeddings

    Maleq Khan;Fabian Kuhn;Dahlia Malkhi;Gopal Pandurangan

  • Using PageRank to Characterize Web Structure

    Gopal Pandurangan;Prabhakar Raghavan;Eli Upfal

  • On the complexity of information spreading in dynamic networks

    Chinmoy Dutta;Gopal Pandurangan;Rajmohan Rajaraman;Zhifeng Sun

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Robinson
Peter Robinson University of Cambridge
Danupon Nanongkai
Danupon Nanongkai Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Eli Upfal
Eli Upfal Brown University
David Peleg
David Peleg Weizmann Institute of Science
Shay Kutten
Shay Kutten Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Rajmohan Rajaraman
Rajmohan Rajaraman Northeastern University
Prasad Tetali
Prasad Tetali Carnegie Mellon University
Prabhakar Raghavan
Prabhakar Raghavan Google (United States)
Michael Elkin
Michael Elkin Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Fabian Kuhn
Fabian Kuhn University of Freiburg

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