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D-Index
130
Citations
69506
World Ranking
100
National Ranking
62

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
  • 1996 - ACM Fellow For research, leadership and service in real-time computing.

Overview

John A. Stankovic is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States. Their research spans the field of Computer Science, with a focus on key subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing, General Health Professions, and Computer Networks and Communications.

The research topics frequently addressed by John A. Stankovic include:

  • Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
  • Transportation and Mobility Innovations
  • Emotion and Mood Recognition
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • AI in Service Interactions
  • Data Management and Algorithms

Their scholarly output includes numerous publications predominantly in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
  • Smart Health
  • ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems
  • Journal of Advanced Nursing

Examples of recent published papers from John A. Stankovic include:

  • "Automatic, wearable-based, in-field eating detection approaches for public health research: a scoping review" (2020) in npj Digital Medicine
  • "A Review of Cognitive Assistants for Healthcare" (2021) in ACM Computing Surveys
  • "A Novel Spatial-Temporal Specification-Based Monitoring System for Smart Cities" (2021) in IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • "iWash: A Smartwatch Handwashing Quality Assessment and Reminder System with Real-time Feedback in the Context of Infectious Disease" (2020) in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "SenseCollect" (2021) in Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies

Frequent co-authors of John A. Stankovic include:

  • Meiyi Ma
  • Sarah Masud Preum
  • Karen Rose
  • Kristina Coop Gordon
  • Lahiru Wijayasingha

John A. Stankovic was awarded the ACM Fellow distinction in 1996 for research, leadership, and service in real-time computing.

Best Publications

  • Range-free localization schemes for large scale sensor networks

    Tian He;Chengdu Huang;Brian M. Blum;John A. Stankovic

  • Denial of service in sensor networks

    A.D. Wood;J.A. Stankovic

  • Research Directions for the Internet of Things

    John A. Stankovic

  • Cyber-physical systems: the next computing revolution

    Ragunathan (Raj) Rajkumar;Insup Lee;Lui Sha;John Stankovic

  • Security in wireless sensor networks

    Adrian Perrig;John Stankovic;David Wagner

  • SPEED: a stateless protocol for real-time communication in sensor networks

    Tian He;J.A. Stankovic;Chenyang Lu;T. Abdelzaher

  • Misconceptions about real-time computing: a serious problem for next-generation systems

    J.A. Stankovic

  • Impact of radio irregularity on wireless sensor networks

    Gang Zhou;Tian He;Sudha Krishnamurthy;John A. Stankovic

  • Energy-efficient surveillance system using wireless sensor networks

    Tian He;Sudha Krishnamurthy;John A. Stankovic;Tarek Abdelzaher

  • Context-aware wireless sensor networks for assisted living and residential monitoring

    A. Wood;J. Stankovic;G. Virone;L. Selavo

  • Wireless Sensor Networks for Healthcare

    JeongGil Ko;Chenyang Lu;Mani B Srivastava;John A Stankovic

  • Deadline Scheduling for Real-Time Systems: EDF and Related Algorithms

    John A. Stankovic;Marco Spuri;Krithi Ramamritham;Giorgio C. Buttazzo

  • Feedback Control Real-Time Scheduling: Framework, Modeling, and Algorithms*

    Chenyang Lu;John A. Stankovic;Gang Tao;Sang H. Son

  • ATPC: Adaptive Transmission Power Control for Wireless Sensor Networks

    Shan Lin;Fei Miao;Jingbin Zhang;Gang Zhou

  • ATPC: adaptive transmission power control for wireless sensor networks

    Shan Lin;Jingbin Zhang;Gang Zhou;Lin Gu

  • RAP: a real-time communication architecture for large-scale wireless sensor networks

    Chenyang Lu;B.M. Blum;T.F. Abdelzaher;J.A. Stankovic

  • Accurate, Fast Fall Detection Using Gyroscopes and Accelerometer-Derived Posture Information

    Qiang Li;John A. Stankovic;Mark A. Hanson;Adam T. Barth

  • Differentiated surveillance for sensor networks

    Ting Yan;Tian He;John A. Stankovic

  • VigilNet: An integrated sensor network system for energy-efficient surveillance

    Tian He;Sudha Krishnamurthy;Liqian Luo;Ting Yan

  • Scheduling algorithms and operating systems support for real-time systems

    K. Ramamritham;J.A. Stankovic

  • An Energy-Efficient Surveillance System Using Wireless Sensor Networks

    Tian He;Sudha Krishnamurthy;John A. Stankovic;Tarek F. Abdelzaher

Frequent Co-Authors

Krithi Ramamritham
Krithi Ramamritham Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Tian He
Tian He University of Minnesota
Sang H. Son
Sang H. Son University of Virginia
Tarek Abdelzaher
Tarek Abdelzaher University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gang Zhou
Gang Zhou William & Mary
Chenyang Lu
Chenyang Lu Washington University in St. Louis
Kamin Whitehouse
Kamin Whitehouse University of Virginia
Don Towsley
Don Towsley University of Massachusetts Amherst
Qing Cao
Qing Cao University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Giorgio Buttazzo
Giorgio Buttazzo Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies

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