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John Wilkes 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 John Wilkes sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 145 publications — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

John Wilkes 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 John Wilkes sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - ACM Fellow For contributions to the understanding of storage systems and their management.

Overview

John Wilkes is a researcher affiliated with Google in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on computer science, with contributions spanning multiple subfields and topics within the discipline.

The main subfields of study in Wilkes's research include:

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Artificial Intelligence

The researcher's specific topics of interest comprise:

  • Image and Video Quality Assessment
  • Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies
  • Caching and Content Delivery
  • Algorithms and Data Compression

Wilkes has published papers in venues such as ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review and CL Technical Reports. Recent publications include:

  • "Data-driven networking research," 2021, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
  • "A portable BCPL library," 2021, CL Technical Reports

Collaboration features prominently in Wilkes's work, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Jeffrey C. Mogul
  • Priya Mahadevan
  • Christophe Diot
  • Phillipa Gill
  • Amin Vahdat

Wilkes's contributions to the understanding of storage systems and their management were recognized by the ACM Fellow award in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg

    Abhishek Verma;Luis Pedrosa;Madhukar Korupolu;David Oppenheimer

  • An introduction to disk drive modeling

    C. Ruemmler;J. Wilkes

  • The HP AutoRAID hierarchical storage system

    John Wilkes;Richard Golding;Carl Staelin;Tim Sullivan

  • Omega: flexible, scalable schedulers for large compute clusters

    Malte Schwarzkopf;Andy Konwinski;Michael Abd-El-Malek;John Wilkes

  • CloudScale: elastic resource scaling for multi-tenant cloud systems

    Zhiming Shen;Sethuraman Subbiah;Xiaohui Gu;John Wilkes

  • PRESS: PRedictive Elastic ReSource Scaling for cloud systems

    Zhenhuan Gong;Xiaohui Gu;John Wilkes

  • Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes

    Brendan Burns;Brian Grant;David Oppenheimer;Eric Brewer

  • Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes: Lessons learned from three container-management systems over a decade

    Brendan Burns;Brian Grant;David Oppenheimer;Eric Brewer

  • UNIX disk access patterns

    Chris Ruemmler;John Wilkes

  • Hibernator: helping disk arrays sleep through the winter

    Qingbo Zhu;Zhifeng Chen;Lin Tan;Yuanyuan Zhou

  • My Cache or Yours? Making Storage More Exclusive

    Theodore M. Wong;John Wilkes

  • Minerva: An automated resource provisioning tool for large-scale storage systems

    Guillermo A. Alvarez;Elizabeth Borowsky;Susie Go;Theodore H. Romer

  • CPI2: CPU performance isolation for shared compute clusters

    Xiao Zhang;Eric Tune;Robert Hagmann;Rohit Jnagal

  • Idleness is not sloth

    Richard Golding;Peter Bosch;Carl Staelin;Tim Sullivan

  • On-line extraction of SCSI disk drive parameters

    Bruce L. Worthington;Gregory R. Ganger;Yale N. Patt;John Wilkes

  • The TickerTAIP parallel RAID architecture

    Pei Cao;Swee Boon Lin;Shivakumar Venkataraman;John Wilkes

  • AGILE: elastic distributed resource scaling for Infrastructure-as-a-Service

    Hiep Nguyen;Zhiming Shen;Xiaohui Gu;Sethuraman Subbiah

  • Designing for Disasters

    Kimberley Keeton;Cipriano Santos;Dirk Beyer;Jeffrey Chase

  • Borg: the next generation

    Muhammad Tirmazi;Adam Barker;Nan Deng;E. Haque

  • Aqueduct: Online Data Migration with Performance Guarantees

    Chenyang Lu;Guillermo A. Alvarez;John Wilkes

  • The HP lhtoRAID hierarchical storage system

    John Wilkes;Richard Gelding;Carl Staelin;Tim Sullivan

Frequent Co-Authors

Alistair Veitch
Alistair Veitch Google (United States)
Arif Merchant
Arif Merchant Google (United States)
Kimberly Keeton
Kimberly Keeton Google (United States)
Jeffrey S. Chase
Jeffrey S. Chase Duke University
Steven Hand
Steven Hand Google (United States)
Anna R. Karlin
Anna R. Karlin University of Washington
Yale N. Patt
Yale N. Patt The University of Texas at Austin
Gregory R. Ganger
Gregory R. Ganger Carnegie Mellon University
Jason D. Hartline
Jason D. Hartline Northwestern University
Paul Ward
Paul Ward Torrens University Australia

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