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2166
National Ranking
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Gul Agha 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 Gul Agha sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 364 publications — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gul Agha 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 Gul Agha sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 67 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% 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

  • 2018 - ACM Fellow For research in concurrent programming and formal methods, specifically the Actor Model
  • 2002 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the theory and practice of concurrent programming.

Overview

Gul Agha is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily lies within the field of Computer Science, with a specific focus on subfields such as Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Hardware and Architecture, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their work encompasses a variety of topics, prominently featuring:

  • Distributed systems and fault tolerance
  • Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
  • Software System Performance and Reliability
  • Cloud Computing and Resource Management
  • Mobile Agent-Based Network Management
  • Formal Methods in Verification
  • Software Testing and Debugging Techniques

Gul Agha has coauthored multiple papers with frequent collaborators including Saswata Paul, Stacy Patterson, Carlos A. Varela, Dan Plyukhin, and Atul Sandur.

Their published papers include:

  • "Formal Verification of Safety-Critical Aerospace Systems," 2023, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine
  • "Jarvis: Large-scale Server Monitoring with Adaptive Near-data Processing," 2022, 2022 IEEE 38th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)
  • "A Scalable Algorithm for Decentralized Actor Termination Detection," 2022, Logical Methods in Computer Science
  • "Eventual consensus in Synod: verification using a failure-aware actor model," 2022, Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering
  • "Scalable Termination Detection for Distributed Actor Systems," 2020, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)

Gul Agha's work has been published in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
  • IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine
  • Logical Methods in Computer Science
  • 2022 IEEE 38th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the ACM in 2018 for research in concurrent programming and formal methods, specifically the Actor Model. Additionally, they were named an IEEE Fellow in 2002 for contributions to the theory and practice of concurrent programming.

Best Publications

  • Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems

    Gul Agha

  • CUTE: a concolic unit testing engine for C

    Koushik Sen;Darko Marinov;Gul Agha

  • A foundation for actor computation

    Gul A. Agha;Ian A. Mason;Scott F. Smith;Carolyn L. Talcott

  • Concurrent object-oriented programming

    Gul Agha

  • CUTE and jCUTE: concolic unit testing and explicit path model-checking tools

    Koushik Sen;Gul Agha

  • Structural health monitoring of a cable-stayed bridge using smart sensor technology: deployment and evaluation

    Shinae Jang;Hongki Jo;Soojin Cho;Kirill Mechitov

  • Statistical model checking of black-box probabilistic systems

    Koushik Sen;Mahesh Viswanathan;Gul Agha

  • Concurrent Programming Using Actors: Exploiting Large-Scale Parallelism

    Gul Agha;Carl Hewitt

  • Programming dynamically reconfigurable open systems with SALSA

    Carlos Varela;Gul Agha

  • On statistical model checking of stochastic systems

    Koushik Sen;Mahesh Viswanathan;Gul Agha

  • A Survey of Statistical Model Checking

    Gul Agha;Karl Palmskog

  • Flexible smart sensor framework for autonomous structural health monitoring

    Jennifer A. Rice;Kirill Mechitov;Sung Han Sim;Tomonori Nagayama

  • Apparatus and method for synchronizing execution of programs in a distributed real-time computing system

    Masahiko Saito;Gul A. Agha

  • Concurrent programming using actors

    Gul Agha;Carl Hewitt

  • SENS: a sensor, environment and network simulator

    Sameer Sundresh;Wooyoung Kim;Gul Agha

  • Actor frameworks for the JVM platform: a comparative analysis

    Rajesh K. Karmani;Amin Shali;Gul Agha

  • Cooperative tracking with binary-detection sensor networks.

    Kirill Mechitov;Sameer Sundresh;YoungMin Kwon;Gul Agha

  • PMaude: Rewrite-based Specification Language for Probabilistic Object Systems

    Gul Agha;José Meseguer;Koushik Sen

  • VESTA: A statistical model-checker and analyzer for probabilistic systems

    K. Sen;M. Viswanathan;G. Agha

  • Research directions in concurrent object-oriented programming

    Gul Agha;Peter Wegner;Akinori Yonezawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Koushik Sen
Koushik Sen University of California, Berkeley
Billie F. Spencer
Billie F. Spencer University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mahesh Viswanathan
Mahesh Viswanathan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Grigore Rosu
Grigore Rosu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Carolyn L. Talcott
Carolyn L. Talcott SRI International
Akinori Yonezawa
Akinori Yonezawa University of Tokyo
Peter Wegner
Peter Wegner Brown University
Darko Marinov
Darko Marinov University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nalini Venkatasubramanian
Nalini Venkatasubramanian University of California, Irvine

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