2026 Hari Sundaram: 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	40	9177	8911	3905	3743	209	8501

Research.com Recognitions

2019 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

Hari Sundaram is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a significant focus on Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science, Communication, and Computer Science Applications.

Their work covers a range of main topics, including:

Topic Modeling
Advanced Graph Neural Networks
Recommender Systems and Techniques
Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
Social Media and Politics
Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
Complex Network Analysis Techniques

Hari Sundaram has contributed to numerous publications, frequently appearing in these venues:

arXiv (Cornell University) - 18 publications
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction - 7 publications
Journal of Advertising
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Journal of Adolescent Health

Some recent papers involving their research include:

"Macro and Exogenous Factors in Computational Advertising: Key Issues and New Research Directions" (2020), Journal of Advertising
"Auditing Race and Gender Discrimination in Online Housing Markets" (2020), Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
"Food-Focused Media Literacy for Remotely Acculturating Adolescents and Mothers: A Randomized Controlled Trial of the "JUS Media? Programme"" (2021), Journal of Adolescent Health
"Measuring User-Moderator Alignment on r/ChangeMyView" (2023), Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
"I can show what I really like." (2021), Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Collaborations have been notable, with the most frequent co-authors being:

Karrie Karahalios (7 joint works)
Adit Krishnan (5 joint works)
Eshwar Chandrasekharan (4 joint works)
Junting Wang (4 joint works)
Vinay Koshy (3 joint works)

Hari Sundaram was recognized as an ACM Distinguished Member in 2019.

Best Publications

Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Multimedia

K. Selçuk Candan;Sethuraman Panchanathan;Balakrishnan Prabhakaran;Hari Sundaram

871
Citations
A fully automated content-based video search engine supporting spatiotemporal queries

Shih-Fu Chang;W. Chen;H.J. Meng;H. Sundaram

621
Citations
VideoQ: an automated content based video search system using visual cues

Shih-Fu Chang;William Chen;Horace J. Meng;Hari Sundaram

577
Citations
Facetnet: a framework for analyzing communities and their evolutions in dynamic networks

Yu-Ru Lin;Yun Chi;Shenghuo Zhu;Hari Sundaram

569
Citations
Analyzing communities and their evolutions in dynamic social networks

Yu-Ru Lin;Yun Chi;Shenghuo Zhu;Hari Sundaram

371
Citations
How Does the Data Sampling Strategy Impact the Discovery of Information Diffusion in Social Media

Munmun De Choudhury;Yu Ru Lin;Hari Sundaram;K. Selçuk Candan

327
Citations
Semantic visual templates: linking visual features to semantics

S.-F. Cheng;W. Chen;H. Sundaram

294
Citations
MetaFac: community discovery via relational hypergraph factorization

Yu-Ru Lin;Jimeng Sun;Paul Castro;Ravi Konuru

288
Citations
Algorithms and system for object-oriented content-based video search

Shih-Fu Chang;William Chen;Horace J. Meng;Hari Sundaram

198
Citations
Can blog communication dynamics be correlated with stock market activity

Munmun De Choudhury;Hari Sundaram;Ajita John;Dorée Duncan Seligmann

178
Citations
Determining computable scenes in films and their structures using audio-visual memory models

Hari Sundaram;Shih-Fu Chang

169
Citations
GroupIM: A Mutual Information Maximization Framework for Neural Group Recommendation

Aravind Sankar;Yanhong Wu;Yuhang Wu;Wei Zhang

160
Citations
Video scene segmentation using video and audio features

H. Sundaram;Shih-Fu Chang

139
Citations
A utility framework for the automatic generation of audio-visual skims

Hari Sundaram;Lexing Xie;Shih-Fu Chang

133
Citations
Event Mining in Multimedia Streams

Lexing Xie;H. Sundaram;M. Campbell

127
Citations
Discovery of Blog Communities based on Mutual Awareness

Yu-Ru Lin;Hari Sundaram;Yun Chi;Jun Tatemura

123
Citations
Social Synchrony: Predicting Mimicry of User Actions in Online Social Media

Munmun De Choudhury;Hari Sundaram;Ajita John;Dorée Duncan Seligmann

120
Citations
Blog Community Discovery and Evolution Based on Mutual Awareness Expansion

Yu-Ru Lin;Hari Sundaram;Yun Chi;Junichi Tatemura

113
Citations
An Adaptive Mixed Reality Training System for Stroke Rehabilitation

Margaret Duff;Yinpeng Chen;Suneth Attygalle;Janice Herman

112
Citations
Splog detection using self-similarity analysis on blog temporal dynamics

Yu-Ru Lin;Hari Sundaram;Yun Chi;Junichi Tatemura

106
Citations
Computable scenes and structures in films

H. Sundaram;Shih-Fu Chang

103
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Yu-Ru Lin University of Pittsburgh

Shih-Fu Chang Columbia University

Munmun De Choudhury Georgia Institute of Technology

Lexing Xie Australian National University

Doree Duncan Seligmann NY Hatchlings LLC

Belle L. Tseng Apple (United States)

K. Selçuk Candan Arizona State University

Yun Chi Robinhood

Jiping He Beijing Institute of Technology

Karrie Karahalios University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

External Links

Personal website of Hari Sundaram Google Scholar page

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