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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - SIAM Fellow For contributions to the development and analysis of algorithms for sparse matrix problems.
  • 1938 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

John R. Gilbert is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Physics and Astronomy. The subfields they have contributed to include Molecular Biology, Radiation, Cell Biology, Immunology, and Cancer Research.

Their recent scholarly outputs cover diverse topics such as Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ, interferon and immune responses, and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics.

Notable recent publications include:

  • A comprehensive clinically informed map of dependencies in cancer cells and framework for target prioritization (2024, Cancer Cell)
  • Genome-wide CRISPR screens of oral squamous cell carcinoma reveal fitness genes in the Hippo pathway (2020, eLife)
  • Stability of electron ptychography at low electron dose (2025, Journal of Microscopy)
  • Ptychography at finite dose in SrTiO3 (2024, BIO Web of Conferences)

Frequent coauthors with whom they have published multiple times include Emanuel Gonçalves, Fiona M. Behan, Mathew J. Garnett, Malcolm Dearg, and Nick Michaelides.

Common venues for their research publications are Cancer Cell, eLife, Journal of Microscopy, and BIO Web of Conferences.

John R. Gilbert has been recognized with awards such as the SIAM Fellow in 2010, acknowledging contributions to algorithms for sparse matrix problems, and was designated a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1938.

Best Publications

  • A Supernodal Approach to Sparse Partial Pivoting

    James W. Demmel;Stanley C. Eisenstat;John R. Gilbert;Xiaoye S. Li

  • Sparse matrices in matlab: design and implementation

    John R. Gilbert;Cleve Moler;Robert Schreiber

  • Provably good mesh generation

    M. Bern;D. Eppstein;J. Gilbert

  • Parallel sparse matrix-vector and matrix-transpose-vector multiplication using compressed sparse blocks

    Aydin Buluç;Jeremy T. Fineman;Matteo Frigo;John R. Gilbert

  • The Combinatorial BLAS: design, implementation, and applications

    Aydın Buluç;John R Gilbert

  • Graph Algorithms in the Language of Linear Algebra

    Jeremy Kepner;John Gilbert

  • Approximating treewidth, pathwidth, frontsize, and shortest elimination tree

    Hans L. Bodlaender;John R. Gilbert;Hjálmtýr Hafsteinsson;Ton Kloks

  • An Asynchronous Parallel Supernodal Algorithm for Sparse Gaussian Elimination

    James W. Demmel;John R. Gilbert;Xiaoye S. Li

  • A Separator Theorem for Graphs of Bounded Genus

    John R. Gilbert;Joan P. Hutchinson;Robert Endre Tarjan

  • Geometric Mesh Partitioning: Implementation and Experiments

    John R. Gilbert;Gary L. Miller;Shang-Hua Teng

  • A column approximate minimum degree ordering algorithm

    Timothy A. Davis;John R. Gilbert;Stefan I. Larimore;Esmond G. Ng

  • Sparse Partial Pivoting in Time Proportional to Arithmetic Operations

    John R. Gilbert;Timothy Peierls

  • Generating local addresses and communication sets for data-parallel programs

    Siddhartha Chatterjee;John R. Gilbert;Fred J. E. Long;Robert Schreiber

  • Generating Local Addresses and Communication Sets for Data-Parallel Programs

    Siddhartha Chatterjee;John R. Gilbert;Fred J. E. Long;Robert Schreiber

  • On the representation and multiplication of hypersparse matrices

    A. Buluc;J.R. Gilbert

  • Mathematical foundations of the GraphBLAS

    Jeremy Kepner;Peter Aaltonen;David Bader;Aydin Buluc

  • SuperLU Users'' Guide

    James W. Demmel;John Gilbert;Xiaoye S. Li

  • Parallel Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication and Indexing: Implementation and Experiments

    Aydin Buluç;John R. Gilbert

  • Automatic array alignment in data-parallel programs

    Siddhartha Chatterjee;John R. Gilbert;Robert Schreiber;Shang-Hua Teng

  • Graph theory and sparse matrix computation

    Alan George;J. R. Gilbert;Joseph W. H. Liu

  • Mathematical Foundations of the GraphBLAS

    Jeremy Kepner;Peter Aaltonen;David Bader;Aydın Buluc

  • An Asynchronous Parallel Supernodal Algorithm for Sparse Gaussian

    James W. Demmel;John Gilbert;Xiaoye S. Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Aydin Buluc
Aydin Buluc Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Robert Schreiber
Robert Schreiber Cerebras Systems
Leonid Oliker
Leonid Oliker Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Shang-Hua Teng
Shang-Hua Teng University of Southern California
David A. Bader
David A. Bader New Jersey Institute of Technology
Robert E. Tarjan
Robert E. Tarjan Princeton University
Gary L. Miller
Gary L. Miller Carnegie Mellon University
Joseph E. Gonzalez
Joseph E. Gonzalez University of California, Berkeley
Sivan Toledo
Sivan Toledo Tel Aviv University

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