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Hamsa Balakrishnan

Hamsa Balakrishnan

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
31
Citations
4299
World Ranking
9672
National Ranking
2759

Hamsa Balakrishnan publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hamsa Balakrishnan sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 145 publications — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Hamsa Balakrishnan D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hamsa Balakrishnan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 31 D-Index — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Hamsa Balakrishnan is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has an extensive publication record in engineering and computer science, with a strong focus on aerospace engineering and related subfields. Their work primarily addresses issues in air traffic management, optimization, and transportation systems.

The scientist's recent papers cover a variety of topics within transportation and air traffic control, including:

  • Efficiency and Fairness in Unmanned Air Traffic Flow Management, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Automatic Speech Recognition for Air Traffic Control Communications, 2021, Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Control and Optimization of Air Traffic Networks, 2021, Annual Review of Control Robotics and Autonomous Systems
  • Impact of Off-Block Time Uncertainty on the Control of Airport Surface Operations, 2020, Transportation Science
  • Graph Signal Processing Techniques for Analyzing Aviation Disruptions, 2021, Transportation Science

Frequent co-authors in Hamsa Balakrishnan's research include:

  • Karthik Gopalakrishnan
  • Christopher Chin
  • Max Z. Li
  • Sandeep Badrinath
  • Siddharth Nayak

Publication venues where this researcher has contributed most frequently are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Air Transportation
  • CEAS Aeronautical Journal
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

The main fields of study for Hamsa Balakrishnan are identified as engineering and computer science. Their subfields of focus include:

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Transportation
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

The primary research topics explored involve:

  • Air Traffic Management and Optimization
  • Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends
  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods
  • Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
  • Reinforcement Learning in Robotics

Overall, the research portfolio of Hamsa Balakrishnan reveals a multidisciplinary approach combining engineering principles, data science methods, and optimization techniques to address challenges in modern air traffic and transportation systems.

Best Publications

  • Characterization and prediction of air traffic delays

    Juan Jose Rebollo;Hamsa Balakrishnan

  • Algorithms for Scheduling Runway Operations Under Constrained Position Shifting

    Hamsa Balakrishnan;Bala G. Chandran

  • Scheduling Aircraft Landings under Constrained Position Shifting

    Hamsa Balakrishnan Balakrishnan;Bala Chandran Chandran

  • DEMONSTRATION OF REDUCED AIRPORT CONGESTION THROUGH PUSHBACK RATE CONTROL

    Ioannis Simaiakis;Harshad Khadilkar;Hamsa Balakrishnan;Tom G. Reynolds

  • Queuing Models of Airport Departure Processes for Emissions Reduction

    Ioannis Simaiakis;Hamsa Balakrishnan

  • The impact of high-speed rail and low-cost carriers on European air passenger traffic

    Regina R. Clewlow Clewlow;Joseph M. Sussman Sussman;Hamsa Balakrishnan Balakrishnan

  • Estimation of aircraft taxi fuel burn using flight data recorder archives

    Harshad Dilip Khadilkar;Hamsa Balakrishnan

  • A Framework for Coordinated Surface Operations Planning at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport

    Hamsa Balakrishnan;Yoon Jung

  • State estimation for hybrid systems: applications to aircraft tracking

    I. Hwang;H. Balakrishnan;C. Tomlin

  • A Queuing Model of the Airport Departure Process

    Ioannis Simaiakis;Hamsa Balakrishnan

  • A Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Robust Runway Scheduling

    B. Chandran;H. Balakrishnan

  • Stability Analysis of Explicit Congestion Control Protocols

    H. Balakrishnan;N. Dukkipati;N. McKeown;C.J. Tomlin

  • A Study of Tradeoffs in Scheduling Terminal-Area Operations

    Hanbong Lee;H. Balakrishnan

  • Observability criteria and estimator design for stochastic linear hybrid systems

    Inseok Hwang;Hamsa Balakrishnan;Claire Tomlin

  • Interaction of High-Speed Rail and Aviation: Exploring Air–Rail Connectivity

    Regina R. L. Clewlow;Joseph M. Sussman;Hamsa Balakrishnan

  • Efficiency and Fairness in Unmanned Air Traffic Flow Management

    Christopher Chin;Karthik Gopalakrishnan;Maxim Egorov;Antony Evans

  • Trajectory Clustering and Classification for Characterization of Air Traffic Flows

    Mayara Conde Rocha Murca;Richard DeLaura;R John Hansman;Richard Jordan

  • Network Congestion Control of Airport Surface Operations

    Harshad Dilip Khadilkar;Hamsa Balakrishnan

  • Impact of Congestion on Taxi Times, Fuel Burn, and Emissions at Major Airports:

    Ioannis Simaiakis;Hamsa Balakrishnan

  • Estimation of arrival-departure capacity tradeoffs in multi-airport systems

    Varun Ramanujam;Hamsa Balakrishnan

  • Evaluation of strategies for reducing taxi-out emissions at airports

    Indira Deonandan;Hamsa Balakrishnan

  • A comparative analysis of models for predicting delays in air traffic networks

    Karthik Kavassery Gopalakrishnan;Hamsa Balakrishnan

Frequent Co-Authors

Claire J. Tomlin
Claire J. Tomlin University of California, Berkeley
Inseok Hwang
Inseok Hwang Purdue University West Lafayette
John-Paul Clarke
John-Paul Clarke The University of Texas at Austin
Eric Feron
Eric Feron King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Marco Pavone
Marco Pavone Stanford University
Richard C. Miake-Lye
Richard C. Miake-Lye California Institute of Technology

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