2026 José Luis Ambite: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	39	9840	9559	4143	3971	155	5732

Overview

José Luis Ambite is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Computer Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these fields, their work focuses on subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Ophthalmology.

The scientist's recent publications reflect a broad engagement with both computational and biomedical topics. Recent papers include:

Toward a fine-scale population health monitoring system, 2021, Cell
Rapid detection of identity-by-descent tracts for mega-scale datasets, 2021, Nature Communications
Semi-Synchronous Federated Learning for Energy-Efficient Training and Accelerated Convergence in Cross-Silo Settings, 2022, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
Minority-centric meta-analyses of blood lipid levels identify novel loci in the Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) study, 2020, PLoS Genetics
Using dynamic time warping self-organizing maps to characterize diurnal patterns in environmental exposures, 2021, Scientific Reports

Their frequent co-authors include Dimitris Stripelis, Paul M. Thompson, Greg Ver Steeg, Loïc Le Marchand, and Lucia A. Hindorff. Collaboration patterns suggest interdisciplinary work spanning computer science, genetics, and medical imaging.

Publications appear regularly in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), UNC Libraries, Alzheimer's & Dementia, and Ophthalmology Science.

Key research topics covered in their work include:

Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques
Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
Cryptography and Data Security
Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Best Publications

Modeling Web sources for information integration

Craig A. Knoblock;Steven Minton;José Luis Ambite;Naveen Ashish

303
Citations
Semi-automatically mapping structured sources into the semantic web

Craig A. Knoblock;Pedro Szekely;José Luis Ambite;Aman Goel

281
Citations
The Ariadne approach to Web- based information integration

Craig A. Knoblock;Steven Minton;Jose Luis Ambite;Naveen Ashish

236
Citations
Web service composition as planning

Mark Carman;Jose Luis Ambite;Luciano Serafini;Craig Knoblock

217
Citations
Phenome-Wide Association Study (PheWAS) for Detection of Pleiotropy within the Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) Network

Sarah A. Pendergrass;Kristin Brown-Gentry;Scott Dudek;Alex Frase

208
Citations
The use of phenome-wide association studies (PheWAS) for exploration of novel genotype-phenotype relationships and pleiotropy discovery.

S.A. Pendergrass;K. Brown-Gentry;S.M. Dudek;E.S. Torstenson

205
Citations
The Next PAGE in Understanding Complex Traits: Design for the Analysis of Population Architecture Using Genetics and Epidemiology (PAGE) Study

Tara C. Matise;Jose Luis Ambite;Steven Buyske;Christopher S. Carlson

193
Citations
Integration of heterogeneous knowledge sources in the CALO query manager

José Luis Ambite;Vinay K. Chaudhri;Richard Fikes;Jessica Jenkins

172
Citations
Dynamically Composing Web Services from On-line Sources

Snehal Thakkar;Craig A. Knoblock;Jose Luis Ambite;Cyrus Shahabi

161
Citations
Design and implementation of the CALO query manager

Jose-Luis Ambite;Vinay K. Chaudhri;Richard Fikes;Jessica Jenkins

152
Citations
A Phenomics-Based Strategy Identifies Loci on APOC1, BRAP, and PLCG1 Associated with Metabolic Syndrome Phenotype Domains

Christy L. Avery;Qianchuan He;Kari E. North;Jose L. Ambite

129
Citations
Exploiting spatiotemporal patterns for accurate air quality forecasting using deep learning

Yijun Lin;Nikhit Mago;Yu Gao;Yaguang Li

128
Citations
Planning by rewriting: efficiently generating high-quality plans

José Luis Ambite;Craig A. Knoblock

120
Citations
Ariadne: a system for constructing mediators for Internet sources

José Luis Ambite;Naveen Ashish;Greg Barish;Craig A. Knoblock

120
Citations
Linking and building ontologies of linked data

Rahul Parundekar;Craig A. Knoblock;José Luis Ambite

120
Citations
SchizConnect: Mediating neuroimaging databases on schizophrenia and related disorders for large-scale integration.

Lei Wang;Kathryn I. Alpert;Vince D. Calhoun;Derin J. Cobia

115
Citations
A View Integration Approach to Dynamic Composition of Web Services

Snehal Thakkar;Craig A. Knoblock;José Luis Ambite

113
Citations
Learning the semantics of structured data sources

Mohsen Taheriyan;Craig A. Knoblock;Pedro Szekely;José Luis Ambite

112
Citations
Planning by rewriting

José Luis Ambite;Craig A. Knoblock

111
Citations
Agents for information gathering

J.L. Ambite;C.A. Knoblock

107
Citations
Mixed-initiative, multi-source information assistants

Craig A. Knoblock;Steven Minton;José Luis Ambite;Maria Muslea

102
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Craig A. Knoblock University of Southern California

Dana C. Crawford Case Western Reserve University

Ulrike Peters University of Washington

Kari E. North University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Steven Minton InferLink Corporation

Pedro Szekely Amazon (United States)

Myriam Fornage The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Tara C. Matise Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Charles Kooperberg Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Kristina Lerman University of Southern California

External Links

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