2026 Kevin Lai: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	33	9307	2602	42	15234

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Engineering and Technology

9307

2602

15234

Kevin Lai publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kevin Lai sits on this spectrum.

38 publications 804+

This scientist: 42 publications — 1st percentile

1% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Kevin Lai D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kevin Lai sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

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

5356
Citations
A large-scale hierarchical multi-view RGB-D object dataset

Kevin Lai;Liefeng Bo;Xiaofeng Ren;Dieter Fox

1770
Citations
Robust incentive techniques for peer-to-peer networks

Michal Feldman;Kevin Lai;Ion Stoica;John Chuang

849
Citations
RazorII: In Situ Error Detection and Correction for PVT and SER Tolerance

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

753
Citations
Measuring link bandwidths using a deterministic model of packet delay

Kevin Lai;Mary Baker

708
Citations
Measuring bandwidth

K. Lai;M. Baker

559
Citations
Nettimer: a tool for measuring bottleneck link, bandwidth

Kevin Lai;Mary Baker

538
Citations
Tycoon: An implementation of a distributed, market-based resource allocation system

Kevin Lai;Lars Rasmusson;Eytan Adar;Li Zhang

407
Citations
Unsupervised feature learning for 3D scene labeling

Kevin Lai;Liefeng Bo;Dieter Fox

394
Citations
Object recognition with hierarchical kernel descriptors

Liefeng Bo;Kevin Lai;Xiaofeng Ren;Dieter Fox

327
Citations
Dynamic proportional share scheduling in Hadoop

Thomas Sandholm;Kevin Lai

293
Citations
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

273
Citations
Sparse distance learning for object recognition combining RGB and depth information

Kevin Lai;Liefeng Bo;Xiaofeng Ren;Dieter Fox

266
Citations
MapReduce optimization using regulated dynamic prioritization

Thomas Sandholm;Kevin Lai

254
Citations
Curious George: An attentive semantic robot

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

243
Citations
Detection-based object labeling in 3D scenes

Kevin Lai;Liefeng Bo;Xiaofeng Ren;Dieter Fox

234
Citations
Open Cirrus: A Global Cloud Computing Testbed

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

224
Citations
Object Recognition in 3D Point Clouds Using Web Data and Domain Adaptation

Kevin Lai;Dieter Fox

219
Citations
Tycoon: a Distributed Market-based Resource Allocation System

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

194
Citations
The mobile people architecture

Petros Maniatis;Mema Roussopoulos;Ed Swierk;Kevin Lai

166
Citations
Tycoon: an Implementation of a Distributed, Market-based Resource Allocation System

Kevin Lai;Lars Rasmusson

1
Citations