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Hari Balakrishnan

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Computer Science
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2026

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Computer Science

D-Index
132
Citations
153460
World Ranking
95
National Ranking
59

Hari Balakrishnan 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 Hari Balakrishnan sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 309 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Hari Balakrishnan 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 Hari Balakrishnan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 132 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2021 - IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award “For broad contributions to computer networking and mobile and wireless systems.”
  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to wired and wireless networks and distributed systems.
  • 2008 - ACM Fellow For contributions to computer networking and distributed systems.
  • 2002 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Hari Balakrishnan is a researcher affiliated with MIT in the United States, contributing primarily to the fields of Computer Science and Engineering. Their work encompasses a range of subfields including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Ocean Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications, and Nuclear and High Energy Physics.

The main research topics covered by their publications include:

  • Automated Road and Building Extraction
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
  • Oral Health Pathology and Treatment
  • Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
  • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
  • Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena

Among recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Hari Balakrishnan are:

  • Revitalizing the public internet by making it extensible, 2021, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
  • Lane-Level Street Map Extraction from Aerial Imagery, 2022, 2022 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
  • RoadTagger: Robust Road Attribute Inference with Graph Neural Networks, 2020, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Inferring high-resolution traffic accident risk maps based on satellite imagery and GPS trajectories, 2021, 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
  • Sat2Graph: Road Graph Extraction through Graph-Tensor Encoding, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Balakrishnan include Mohammad Reza Alizadeh, Songtao He, Sanjay Chawla, Samuel Madden, and Favyen Bastani.

The main venues where their work is published include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • 2022 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
  • ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

Hari Balakrishnan has been recognized through various awards and honors during their career, such as:

  • IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award in 2021 for broad contributions to computer networking and mobile and wireless systems
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2015 for contributions to wired and wireless networks and distributed systems
  • ACM Fellow in 2008 for contributions to computer networking and distributed systems
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2002

Best Publications

  • Energy-efficient communication protocol for wireless microsensor networks

    W.R. Heinzelman;A. Chandrakasan;H. Balakrishnan

  • Chord: A scalable peer-to-peer lookup service for internet applications

    Ion Stoica;Robert Morris;David Karger;M. Frans Kaashoek

  • An application-specific protocol architecture for wireless microsensor networks

    W.B. Heinzelman;A.P. Chandrakasan;H. Balakrishnan

  • OpenFlow: enabling innovation in campus networks

    Nick McKeown;Tom Anderson;Hari Balakrishnan;Guru Parulkar

  • The Cricket location-support system

    Nissanka B. Priyantha;Anit Chakraborty;Hari Balakrishnan

  • Chord: a scalable peer-to-peer lookup protocol for Internet applications

    Ion Stoica;Robert Morris;David Liben-Nowell;David R. Karger

  • Adaptive protocols for information dissemination in wireless sensor networks

    Wendi Rabiner Heinzelman;Joanna Kulik;Hari Balakrishnan

  • Span: an energy-efficient coordination algorithm for topology maintenance in ad hoc wireless networks

    Benjie Chen;Kyle Jamieson;Hari Balakrishnan;Robert Morris

  • Resilient overlay networks

    David Andersen;Hari Balakrishnan;Frans Kaashoek;Robert Morris

  • A comparison of mechanisms for improving TCP performance over wireless links

    Hari Balakrishnan;Venkata N. Padmanabhan;Srinivasan Seshan;Randy H. Katz

  • Resilient overlay networks

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  • Span: An energy-efficient coordination algorithm for topology maintenance in Ad Hoc wireless networks

    Benjie Chen;Kyle Jamieson;Hari Balakrishnan;Robert Morris

  • Negotiation-based protocols for disseminating information in wireless sensor networks

    Joanna Kulik;Wendi Heinzelman;Hari Balakrishnan

  • Application-specific protocol architectures for wireless networks

    Wendi Beth Heinzelman;Anantha P. Chandrakasan;Hari Balakrishnan

  • CryptDB: protecting confidentiality with encrypted query processing

    Raluca Ada Popa;Catherine M. S. Redfield;Nickolai Zeldovich;Hari Balakrishnan

  • CarTel: a distributed mobile sensor computing system

    Bret Hull;Vladimir Bychkovsky;Yang Zhang;Kevin Chen

  • The pothole patrol: using a mobile sensor network for road surface monitoring

    Jakob Eriksson;Lewis Girod;Bret Hull;Ryan Newton

  • Energy-efficient communication protocols for wireless microsensor networks

    Wendi Rabiner Heinzelman;Anantha Chandrakasan;Hari Balakrishnan

  • Improving TCP/IP performance over wireless networks

    Hari Balakrishnan;Srinivasan Seshan;Elan Amir;Randy H. Katz

  • Improving reliable transport and handoff performance in cellular wireless networks

    Hari Balakrishnan;Srinivasan Seshan;Randy H. Katz

  • Resilient overlay networks

    David Andersen;Hari Balakrishnan;Frans Kaashoek;Robert Morris

Frequent Co-Authors

Nick Feamster
Nick Feamster University of Chicago
Srinivasan Seshan
Srinivasan Seshan Carnegie Mellon University
Randy H. Katz
Randy H. Katz University of California, Berkeley
Scott Shenker
Scott Shenker University of California, Berkeley
David G. Andersen
David G. Andersen Carnegie Mellon University
Raluca Ada Popa
Raluca Ada Popa University of California, Berkeley
Kyle Jamieson
Kyle Jamieson Princeton University

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