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33
Citations
15234
World Ranking
9307
National Ranking
2602

Overview

Kevin Lai is affiliated with Samsara in the United States and has contributed to multiple research areas within computer science and related interdisciplinary fields. Their work spans topics such as advanced database systems, data management, cloud computing, and global financial policies.

Their research has been published across notable venues including the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Journal of International Money and Finance, The Journal of Experimental Education, and Haemophilia.

Key papers by Kevin Lai include:

  • Capital controls and international trade: An industry financial vulnerability perspective, 2021, Journal of International Money and Finance
  • Napa, 2021, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • Impact of Lesson Study and Fractions Resources on Instruction and Student Learning, 2023, The Journal of Experimental Education
  • Late breaking Abstracts, 2020, Haemophilia
  • Progressive Partitioning for Parallelized Query Execution in Google's Napa, 2023, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

The scientist's primary fields of study include:

  • Computer Science

Within computer science, they focus on subfields such as:

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Education
  • Signal Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Finance

The research topics Kevin Lai works on cover the following areas:

  • Advanced Database Systems and Queries
  • Data Management and Algorithms
  • Cloud Computing and Resource Management
  • Global Financial Crisis and Policies
  • Global trade and economics
  • International Business and FDI
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills

Frequent collaborators in Kevin Lai's research include:

  • Gokul Nath Babu Manoharan
  • Indrajit Roy
  • Jagan Sankaranarayanan
  • Hao Zhang
  • Tao Zou

The range of publications and coauthorships demonstrates involvement in multidisciplinary projects intersecting technology, finance, education, and cloud systems.

Best Publications

  • Mitigating routing misbehavior in mobile ad hoc networks

    Sergio Marti;T. J. Giuli;Kevin Lai;Mary Baker

  • A large-scale hierarchical multi-view RGB-D object dataset

    Kevin Lai;Liefeng Bo;Xiaofeng Ren;Dieter Fox

  • Robust incentive techniques for peer-to-peer networks

    Michal Feldman;Kevin Lai;Ion Stoica;John Chuang

  • RazorII: In Situ Error Detection and Correction for PVT and SER Tolerance

    S. Das;C. Tokunaga;S. Pant;W.-H. Ma

  • Measuring link bandwidths using a deterministic model of packet delay

    Kevin Lai;Mary Baker

  • Measuring bandwidth

    K. Lai;M. Baker

  • Nettimer: a tool for measuring bottleneck link, bandwidth

    Kevin Lai;Mary Baker

  • Tycoon: An implementation of a distributed, market-based resource allocation system

    Kevin Lai;Lars Rasmusson;Eytan Adar;Li Zhang

  • Unsupervised feature learning for 3D scene labeling

    Kevin Lai;Liefeng Bo;Dieter Fox

  • Object recognition with hierarchical kernel descriptors

    Liefeng Bo;Kevin Lai;Xiaofeng Ren;Dieter Fox

  • Dynamic proportional share scheduling in Hadoop

    Thomas Sandholm;Kevin Lai

  • A multiwavelength view of the TeV blazar markarian 421: Correlated variability, flaring, and spectral evolution

    M. Błazejowski;G. Blaylock;I. H. Bond;S. M. Bradbury

  • Sparse distance learning for object recognition combining RGB and depth information

    Kevin Lai;Liefeng Bo;Xiaofeng Ren;Dieter Fox

  • MapReduce optimization using regulated dynamic prioritization

    Thomas Sandholm;Kevin Lai

  • Curious George: An attentive semantic robot

    David Meger;Per-Erik Forssén;Kevin Lai;Scott Helmer

  • Detection-based object labeling in 3D scenes

    Kevin Lai;Liefeng Bo;Xiaofeng Ren;Dieter Fox

  • Open Cirrus: A Global Cloud Computing Testbed

    Arutyun I Avetisyan;Roy Campbell;Indranil Gupta;Michael T Heath

  • Object Recognition in 3D Point Clouds Using Web Data and Domain Adaptation

    Kevin Lai;Dieter Fox

  • Tycoon: a Distributed Market-based Resource Allocation System

    Kevin Lai;Bernardo A. Huberman;Leslie R. Fine

  • The mobile people architecture

    Petros Maniatis;Mema Roussopoulos;Ed Swierk;Kevin Lai

  • Tycoon: an Implementation of a Distributed, Market-based Resource Allocation System

    Kevin Lai;Lars Rasmusson

Frequent Co-Authors

Dieter Fox
Dieter Fox University of Washington
Mary Baker
Mary Baker Hewlett-Packard (United States)
Liefeng Bo
Liefeng Bo Alibaba Group (United States)
Xiaofeng Ren
Xiaofeng Ren Alibaba Group (China)
Li Zhang
Li Zhang Google (United States)
Michal Feldman
Michal Feldman Tel Aviv University
James J. Little
James J. Little University of British Columbia
Michael Kozuch
Michael Kozuch Intel (United States)
Yeng Chai Soh
Yeng Chai Soh Nanyang Technological University

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