2026 Gustavo Alonso: 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	84	860	829	21	21	426	26039

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Computer Science

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Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Gustavo Alonso is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and specializes in computer science. Their research spans a variety of subfields, including computer networks and communications, information systems, computer vision and pattern recognition, hardware and architecture, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, among which are:

Cloud Computing and Resource Management
Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
Advanced Data Storage Technologies
Advanced Database Systems and Queries
Graph Theory and Algorithms
Distributed Systems and Fault Tolerance
Data Management and Algorithms

Gustavo Alonso has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in these venues:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)
ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems
Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data

Recent published papers include:

Demystifying Graph Databases: Analysis and Taxonomy of Data Organization, System Designs, and Graph Queries, 2023, ACM Computing Surveys
Shuhai: A Tool for Benchmarking High Bandwidth Memory on FPGAs, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Computers
Tensors, 2021, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
SKT, 2021, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Hardware acceleration of compression and encryption in SAP HANA, 2022, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

Coauthor collaborations with Gustavo Alonso are frequent, including:

Ingo Müller
Dimitrios Koutsoukos
Wenqi Jiang
Torsten Hoefler
Ana Klimovic

Best Publications

Web Services: Concepts, Architectures and Applications

Gustavo Alonso;Fabio Casati;Harumi Kuno;Vijay Machiraju

2828
Citations
Understanding replication in databases and distributed systems

M. Wiesmann;F. Pedone;A. Schiper;B. Kemme

615
Citations
Exception handling in workflow management systems

C. Hagen;G. Alonso

497
Citations
Advanced transaction models in workflow contexts

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

478
Citations
Don't Be Lazy, Be Consistent: Postgres-R, A New Way to Implement Database Replication

Bettina Kemme;Gustavo Alonso

448
Citations
Calling the cloud: enabling mobile phones as interfaces to cloud applications

Ioana Giurgiu;Oriana Riva;Dejan Juric;Ivan Krivulev

428
Citations
Dynamic weaving for aspect-oriented programming

Andrei Popovici;Thomas Gross;Gustavo Alonso

418
Citations
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

Gustavo Alonso;Juliana Freire;Ahmet Saçan;Nesime Tatbul

384
Citations
A new approach to developing and implementing eager database replication protocols

Bettina Kemme;Gustavo Alonso

378
Citations
Main-memory hash joins on multi-core CPUs: Tuning to the underlying hardware

C. Balkesen;J. Teubner;G. Alonso;M. T. Ozsu

371
Citations
Declarative support for sensor data cleaning

Shawn R. Jeffery;Gustavo Alonso;Michael J. Franklin;Wei Hong

366
Citations
Consistency rationing in the cloud: pay only when it matters

Tim Kraska;Martin Hentschel;Gustavo Alonso;Donald Kossmann

357
Citations
R-OSGi: distributed applications through software modularization

Jan S. Rellermeyer;Gustavo Alonso;Timothy Roscoe

349
Citations
Database replication techniques: a three parameter classification

M. Wiesmann;F. Pedone;A. Schiper;B. Kemme

335
Citations
Ganymed: scalable replication for transactional web applications

Christian Plattner;Gustavo Alonso

334
Citations
Multi-core, main-memory joins: sort vs. hash revisited

Cagri Balkesen;Gustavo Alonso;Jens Teubner;M. Tamer Özsu

328
Citations
A Pipelined Framework for Online Cleaning of Sensor Data Streams

S.R. Jeffery;G. Alonso;M.J. Franklin;Wei Hong

322
Citations
Exotica/FMQM: A Persistent Message-Based Architecture for Distributed Workflow Management

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

317
Citations
Just-in-time aspects: efficient dynamic weaving for Java

Andrei Popovici;Gustavo Alonso;Thomas Gross

292
Citations
Functionality and Limitations of Current Workflow Management Systems.

Gustavo Alonso;Divyakant Agrawal;Amr El Abbadi;C. Mohan

277
Citations
Web Services

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172
Citations
Proceedings of the 32nd international conference on Very large data bases

Umeshwar Dayal;Khu-Yong Whang;David Lomet;Gustavo Alonso

95
Citations
Extending DBMSs with satellite databases

Christian Plattner;Gustavo Alonso;M. Tamer Özsu

78
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald Kossmann Microsoft (United States)

Cesare Pautasso Universita della Svizzera Italiana

Jens Teubner TU Dortmund University

Divyakant Agrawal University of California, Santa Barbara

Bettina Kemme McGill University

Chandrasekaran Mohan IBM (United States)

Hans-Jörg Schek ETH Zurich

Amr El Abbadi University of California, Santa Barbara

Timothy Roscoe ETH Zurich

Torsten Hoefler ETH Zurich

External Links

Personal website of Gustavo Alonso Google Scholar page

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