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Hugh E. Williams

Hugh E. Williams

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
40
Citations
5132
World Ranking
9431
National Ranking
293

Hugh E. Williams 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 Hugh E. Williams sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 118 publications — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Hugh E. Williams 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 Hugh E. Williams sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Overview

Hugh E. Williams is affiliated with RMIT University in Australia, with a research focus primarily in computer science and engineering. Their work spans several main fields of study, including:

  • Computer Science
  • Engineering

Within these domains, their subfields of study include:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Plant Science
  • Computer Networks and Communications

The scientist's main topics of research encompass:

  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices
  • Quantum optics and atomic interactions
  • Advanced Data Storage Technologies
  • Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques
  • Cloud Data Security Solutions
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases

Williams has contributed to several research papers published across a variety of venues. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Synchronous subnanosecond clock and data recovery for optically switched data centres using clock phase caching", 2020, Nature Electronics
  • "Biological Control of the Noxious Weed Angled Onion (Allium triquetrum) Thwarted by Endophytic Bacteria in Victoria, Australia", 2020, Australasian Plant Pathology
  • "Project Silica: Towards Sustainable Cloud Archival Storage in Glass", 2024, ACM Transactions on Storage
  • "A report of Bilharziella polonica cercariae in Knowsley Safari, Prescot, United Kingdom, with notes on other trematodes implicated in human cercarial dermatitis", 2022, Journal of Helminthology
  • "Joint Contextual Modeling for ASR Correction and Language Understanding", 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Daniel Cletheroe
  • Istvan Haller
  • Benn C. Thomsen
  • Patrick Anderson
  • Erika Aranas

These collaborative relationships have resulted in publications in venues such as Nature Electronics, ACM Transactions on Storage, Australasian Plant Pathology, Journal of Helminthology, and arXiv.

Best Publications

  • Compression of inverted indexes For fast query evaluation

    Falk Scholer;Hugh E. Williams;John Yiannis;Justin Zobel

  • Compressing Integers for Fast File Access

    Hugh E. Williams;Justin Zobel

  • Stemming Indonesian: A confix-stripping approach

    Mirna Adriani;Bobby Nazief;S. M.M. Tahaghoghi

  • Burst tries: a fast, efficient data structure for string keys

    Steffen Heinz;Justin Zobel;Hugh E. Williams

  • Fast generation of result snippets in web search

    Andrew Turpin;Yohannes Tsegay;David Hawking;Hugh E. Williams

  • Query expansion using associated queries

    Bodo Billerbeck;Falk Scholer;Hugh E. Williams;Justin Zobel

  • Sirius: A Flat Datacenter Network with Nanosecond Optical Switching

    Hitesh Ballani;Paolo Costa;Raphael Behrendt;Daniel Cletheroe

  • Indexing and retrieval for genomic databases

    H.E. Williams;J. Zobel

  • Fast phrase querying with combined indexes

    Hugh E. Williams;Justin Zobel;Dirk Bahle

  • Improved Gapped Alignment in BLAST

    Michael Cameron;Hugh E. Williams;Adam Cannane

  • Stemming Indonesian

    Hugh E. Williams;S. M. M. Tahaghoghi

  • In-Place versus Re-Build versus Re-Merge: Index Maintenance Strategies for Text Retrieval Systems

    Nicholas Lester;Justin Zobel;Hugh E. Williams

  • In-memory hash tables for accumulating text vocabularies

    Justin Zobel;Steffen Heinz;Hugh E. Williams

  • Efficient phrase querying with an auxiliary index

    Dirk Bahle;Hugh E. Williams;Justin Zobel

  • Object search ui and dragging object results

    Julia H. Farago;Hugh E. Williams;James E. Walsh;Nicholas A. Whyte

  • Query association surrogates for Web search

    Falk Scholer;Hugh E. Williams;Andrew Turpin

  • Determining entity popularity using search queries

    Tabreez Govani;Hugh Williams;Jamie Buckley;Nitin Agrawal

  • Efficient online index maintenance for contiguous inverted lists

    Nicholas Lester;Justin Zobel;Hugh Williams

  • Previewing search results for suggested refinement terms and vertical searches

    Scott Beaudreau;Jamie Buckley;Deana R. Fuller;Mira Lane

  • Related search queries for a webpage and their applications

    Krishna Chaitanya Gade;Srinath Reddy Aaleti;Nicholas Eric Craswell;Amit Prakash

Frequent Co-Authors

Justin Zobel
Justin Zobel University of Melbourne
Benn C. Thomsen
Benn C. Thomsen Microsoft (United States)
Paolo Costa
Paolo Costa Microsoft (United States)
Hitesh Ballani
Hitesh Ballani Microsoft (United States)
Nick Craswell
Nick Craswell Microsoft (United States)
Falk Scholer
Falk Scholer RMIT University
Polina Bayvel
Polina Bayvel University College London
Antony Rowstron
Antony Rowstron Microsoft (United States)
Andrew Turpin
Andrew Turpin University of Melbourne
Domanic Lavery
Domanic Lavery Infinera (UK)

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