World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!
Kamesh Munagala

Kamesh Munagala

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
51
Citations
9193
World Ranking
5393
National Ranking
2467

Kamesh Munagala 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 Kamesh Munagala sits on this spectrum.

32–41 publications: 7 scientists 42–51 publications: 22 scientists 52–61 publications: 82 scientists 62–71 publications: 134 scientists 72–81 publications: 249 scientists 82–91 publications: 324 scientists 92–101 publications: 421 scientists 102–111 publications: 420 scientists 112–121 publications: 497 scientists 122–131 publications: 544 scientists 132–141 publications: 555 scientists 142–151 publications: 609 scientists 152–161 publications: 559 scientists 162–171 publications: 534 scientists 172–181 publications: 556 scientists 182–191 publications: 583 scientists 192–201 publications: 519 scientists 202–211 publications: 508 scientists 212–221 publications: 490 scientists 222–231 publications: 437 scientists 232–241 publications: 423 scientists 242–251 publications: 408 scientists 252–261 publications: 377 scientists 262–271 publications: 301 scientists 272–281 publications: 335 scientists 282–291 publications: 320 scientists 292–301 publications: 293 scientists 302–311 publications: 250 scientists 312–321 publications: 238 scientists 322–331 publications: 206 scientists 332–341 publications: 209 scientists 342–351 publications: 208 scientists 352–361 publications: 162 scientists 362–371 publications: 176 scientists 372–381 publications: 127 scientists 382–391 publications: 158 scientists 392–401 publications: 128 scientists 402–411 publications: 104 scientists 412–421 publications: 94 scientists 422–431 publications: 99 scientists 432–441 publications: 83 scientists 442–451 publications: 108 scientists 452–461 publications: 73 scientists 462–471 publications: 77 scientists 472–481 publications: 69 scientists 482–491 publications: 84 scientists 492–501 publications: 62 scientists 502–511 publications: 54 scientists 512–521 publications: 57 scientists 522–531 publications: 51 scientists 532–541 publications: 51 scientists 542–551 publications: 32 scientists 552–561 publications: 38 scientists 562–571 publications: 28 scientists 572–581 publications: 43 scientists 582–591 publications: 33 scientists 592–601 publications: 41 scientists 602–611 publications: 32 scientists 612–621 publications: 28 scientists 622–631 publications: 25 scientists 632–641 publications: 27 scientists 642–651 publications: 17 scientists 652–661 publications: 20 scientists 662–671 publications: 17 scientists 672–681 publications: 15 scientists 682–691 publications: 14 scientists 692–701 publications: 21 scientists 702–711 publications: 13 scientists 712–721 publications: 12 scientists 722–731 publications: 19 scientists 732–741 publications: 14 scientists 742–751 publications: 12 scientists 752–761 publications: 10 scientists 762–771 publications: 10 scientists 772–781 publications: 11 scientists 782–791 publications: 10 scientists 792–801 publications: 11 scientists 802–811 publications: 8 scientists 812–821 publications: 8 scientists 822–831 publications: 7 scientists 832–841 publications: 11 scientists 842–851 publications: 10 scientists 852–861 publications: 5 scientists 862–871 publications: 9 scientists 872–881 publications: 4 scientists 882–891 publications: 6 scientists 892–901 publications: 3 scientists 902–911 publications: 6 scientists 912–921 publications: 3 scientists 922–931 publications: 2 scientists 932–941 publications: 2 scientists 942–951 publications: 2 scientists 952–961 publications: 3 scientists 962–971 publications: 3 scientists 972–981 publications: 3 scientists 982–990 publications: 5 scientists 991+ publications: 100 scientists
32 publications 991+

This scientist: 211 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kamesh Munagala 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 Kamesh Munagala sits on this spectrum.

30–31 D-Index: 879 scientists 32–33 D-Index: 983 scientists 34–35 D-Index: 918 scientists 36–37 D-Index: 990 scientists 38–39 D-Index: 968 scientists 40–41 D-Index: 907 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 821 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 763 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 689 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 543 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 543 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 518 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 500 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 458 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 400 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 337 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 308 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 292 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 249 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 213 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 192 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 189 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 165 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 139 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 119 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 121 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 113 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 88 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 87 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 75 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 69 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 57 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 46 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 38 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 34 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 36 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 27 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 37 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 18 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 31 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 19 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 16 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 20 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 15 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 5 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 20 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 8 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 5 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 7 scientists 130 D-Index: 3 scientists 131+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% 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

  • 2019 - ACM Distinguished Member
  • 2009 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Kamesh Munagala is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within decision sciences and computer science, with a specialization in aspects of economics, operations research, and applied computational methods.

The primary fields of study for Munagala include:

  • Decision Sciences (35 publications)
  • Computer Science (24 publications)

Subfields of specialization highlight a multidisciplinary approach, focusing on:

  • Management Science and Operations Research (32 publications)
  • Economics and Econometrics (15 publications)
  • Computer Networks and Communications (9 publications)
  • Marketing (9 publications)
  • Safety Research (8 publications)

The research topics covered by Munagala emphasize economic mechanisms and game theory, including:

  • Auction Theory and Applications (42 publications)
  • Game Theory and Voting Systems (22 publications)
  • Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing (18 publications)
  • Optimization and Search Problems (16 publications)
  • Game Theory and Applications (14 publications)
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (12 publications)
  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data (8 publications)

Munagala's recent publications include:

  • Group Fairness in Committee Selection, 2020, ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation
  • Advertising for Demographically Fair Outcomes, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Predict and Match, 2020, Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems
  • The Limits of an Information Intermediary in Auction Design, 2022, Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation
  • Optimal Price Discrimination for Randomized Mechanisms, 2022, Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Munagala include:

  • Kangning Wang (18 publications)
  • Yiheng Shen (11 publications)
  • Siddhartha Banerjee (10 publications)
  • Sreenivas Gollapudi (6 publications)
  • Sungjin Im (6 publications)

The venues where Munagala most frequently publishes are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) - 23 publications
  • ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation - 3 publications
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems - 2 publications
  • Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation - 2 publications
  • Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl) - 2 publications

Awards received by Munagala include the ACM Distinguished Member in 2019 and a fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Local Search Heuristics for k -Median and Facility Location Problems

    Vijay Arya;Naveen Garg;Rohit Khandekar;Adam Meyerson

  • Local search heuristic for k-median and facility location problems

    Vijay Arya;Naveen Garg;Rohit Khandekar;Adam Meyerson

  • Adaptive ordering of pipelined stream filters

    Shivnath Babu;Rajeev Motwani;Kamesh Munagala;Itaru Nishizawa

  • Cost-Distance: Two Metric Network Design

    Adam Meyerson;Kamesh Munagala;Serge Plotkin

  • Approximation algorithms for restless bandit problems

    Sudipto Guha;Kamesh Munagala;Peng Shi

  • Operator placement for in-network stream query processing

    Utkarsh Srivastava;Kamesh Munagala;Jennifer Widom

  • A Sampling-Based Approach to Optimizing Top-k Queries in Sensor Networks

    A.S. Silberstein;R. Braynard;C. Ellis;K. Munagala

  • Query optimization over web services

    Utkarsh Srivastava;Kamesh Munagala;Jennifer Widom;Rajeev Motwani

  • Hierarchical placement and network design problems

    S. Guha;A. Meyerson;K. Munagala

  • Modeling opinion dynamics in social networks

    Abhimanyu Das;Sreenivas Gollapudi;Kamesh Munagala

  • Order matters: transmission reordering in wireless networks

    Justin Manweiler;Naveen Santhapuri;Souvik Sen;Romit Roy Choudhury

  • Energy-efficient monitoring of extreme values in sensor networks

    Adam Silberstein;Kamesh Munagala;Jun Yang

  • Adaptive caching for continuous queries

    Shivnath Babu;Kamesh Munagalat;J. Widom;Rajeev Motwani

  • Approximation algorithms for budgeted learning problems

    Sudipto Guha;Kamesh Munagala

  • Optimization of continuous queries with shared expensive filters

    Kamesh Munagala;Utkarsh Srivastava;Jennifer Widom

  • A constant factor approximation for the single sink edge installation problems

    Sudipto Guha;Adam Meyerson;Kamesh Munagala

  • Learning and Approximating the Optimal Strategy to Commit To

    Joshua Letchford;Vincent Conitzer;Kamesh Munagala

  • Budget-Constrained Auctions with Heterogeneous Items

    Sayan Bhattacharya;Gagan Goel;Sreenivas Gollapudi;Kamesh Munagala

  • The pipelined set cover problem

    Kamesh Munagala;Shivnath Babu;Rajeev Motwani;Jennifer Widom

  • Fair Allocation of Indivisible Public Goods

    Brandon Fain;Kamesh Munagala;Nisarg Shah

  • The Core of the Participatory Budgeting Problem

    Brandon Fain;Ashish Goel;Kamesh Munagala

Frequent Co-Authors

Sudipto Guha
Sudipto Guha University of Pennsylvania
Ashish Goel
Ashish Goel Stanford University
Jun Yang
Jun Yang Duke University
Shivnath Babu
Shivnath Babu Duke University
Jennifer Widom
Jennifer Widom Stanford University
Vincent Conitzer
Vincent Conitzer Carnegie Mellon University
Pankaj K. Agarwal
Pankaj K. Agarwal Duke University
Rajeev Motwani
Rajeev Motwani Stanford University
Kirk Pruhs
Kirk Pruhs University of Pittsburgh
Saswati Sarkar
Saswati Sarkar University of Pennsylvania

If you think any of the details on this page are incorrect, let us know.

Report an issue

We appreciate your kind effort to assist us to improve this page, it would be helpful providing us with as much detail as possible in the text box below:

Related Online Degrees & Career Pathways

Exploring online degrees has become a popular and flexible option for students interested in Computer Science. If you're just starting out, an associates degree online can provide a solid foundation in key computing concepts and programming skills. This pathway is a practical entry point for launching your career or transferring to a four-year degree program.

Cost is often a concern for students, but there are many cheap online colleges that offer quality Computer Science programs without high tuition fees. For those worried about admissions requirements, finding a college that accepts low gpa can help you take the next step, even if your academic history isn’t perfect.

Computer Science is not the only field with promising prospects—consider related areas such as environmental science, where there are also high-paying jobs with environmental science degree. Both fields offer diverse career pathways, ranging from tech-focused roles to impactful positions addressing global challenges.

Best Scientists Citing Kamesh Munagala

Trending Scientists

Recently Published Articles