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2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
73
Citations
23344
World Ranking
1576
National Ranking
37

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2006 - ACM Fellow For contributions to programming languages, compilers, and computer architecture.

Overview

James R. Larus is affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on computer science, with notable attention to subfields such as information systems, hardware and architecture, computer networks and communications, artificial intelligence, and modeling and simulation.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing
  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • COVID-19 Epidemiological Studies
  • Embedded Systems Design Techniques
  • Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
  • Cloud Computing and Resource Management
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis

Key recent publications by James R. Larus include:

  • Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Early Evidence of Effectiveness of Digital Contact Tracing for SARS-CoV-2 in Switzerland, 2020, Swiss Medical Weekly
  • Deploying Decentralized, Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing, 2022, Communications of the ACM
  • Early Evidence of Effectiveness of Digital Contact Tracing for SARS-CoV-2 in Switzerland, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Precision Global Health: A Roadmap for Augmented Action, 2020, Journal of Public Health and Emergency

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Marcel Salathé
  • Carmela Troncoso
  • Mathias Payer
  • Wouter Lueks
  • Theresa Stadler

Major publication venues featuring James R. Larus' work are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Swiss Medical Weekly
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Public Health and Emergency

James R. Larus was recognized as an ACM Fellow in 2006 for contributions to programming languages, compilers, and computer architecture.

Best Publications

  • A reconfigurable fabric for accelerating large-scale datacenter services

    Andrew Putnam;Adrian M. Caulfield;Eric S. Chung;Derek Chiou

  • Mining specifications

    Glenn Ammons;Rastislav Bodík;James R. Larus

  • Efficient path profiling

    Thomas Ball;James R. Larus

  • Optimally profiling and tracing programs

    Thomas Ball;James R. Larus

  • Software and the Concurrency Revolution: Leveraging the full power of multicore processors demands new tools and new thinking from the software industry.

    Herb Sutter;James Larus

  • Exploiting hardware performance counters with flow and context sensitive profiling

    Glenn Ammons;Thomas Ball;James R. Larus

  • EEL: machine-independent executable editing

    James R. Larus;Eric Schnarr

  • The Wisconsin Wind Tunnel: virtual prototyping of parallel computers

    Steven K. Reinhardt;Mark D. Hill;James R. Larus;Alvin R. Lebeck

  • Tempest and typhoon: user-level shared memory

    Steven K. Reinhardt;James R. Larus;David A. Wood

  • Cache-conscious structure layout

    Trishul M. Chilimbi;Mark D. Hill;James R. Larus

  • Personal data mining

    Raymond E. Ozzie;William H. Gates;Gary W. Flake;Thomas F. Bergstraesser

  • Whole program paths

    James R. Larus

  • Branch prediction for free

    Thomas Ball;James R. Larus

  • Join-Idle-Queue: A novel load balancing algorithm for dynamically scalable web services

    Yi Lu;Qiaomin Xie;Gabriel Kliot;Alan Geller

  • Singularity: rethinking the software stack

    Galen C. Hunt;James R. Larus

  • Fine-grain access control for distributed shared memory

    Ioannis Schoinas;Babak Falsafi;Alvin R. Lebeck;Steven K. Reinhardt

  • Language support for fast and reliable message-based communication in singularity OS

    Manuel Fähndrich;Mark Aiken;Chris Hawblitzel;Orion Hodson

  • The use of program profiling for software maintenance with applications to the year 2000 problem

    Thomas Reps;Thomas Ball;Manuvir Das;James Larus

  • Detecting conflicts between structure accesses

    J. R. Larus;P. N. Hilfinger

  • Hardware architecture for cloud services

    William H. Gates;Gary W. Flake;William J. Bolosky;Nishant V. Dani

  • Optimally Profiling and Tracing

    Thomas Ball;James R. Larus

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark D. Hill
Mark D. Hill University of Wisconsin–Madison
Galen C. Hunt
Galen C. Hunt Microsoft (United States)
Alexander G. Gounares
Alexander G. Gounares Microsoft (United States)
Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer
Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer Microsoft (United States)
Steven K. Reinhardt
Steven K. Reinhardt Advanced Micro Devices (United States)
Gary W. Flake
Gary W. Flake Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Lili Cheng
Lili Cheng Microsoft (United States)
Manuel Fähndrich
Manuel Fähndrich Google (United States)
Thomas Ball
Thomas Ball Microsoft (United States)
Trishul Chilimbi
Trishul Chilimbi Amazon (United States)

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