2026 Kimberly Keeton: 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	36	11078	10765	4602	4408	115	7355

Research.com Recognitions

2021 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to storage and memory systems
2018 - ACM Fellow For contributions improving the dependability, manageability, and usability of storage and novel memory systems
2012 - ACM Distinguished Member
2010 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Kimberly Keeton is affiliated with Google in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a concentration on specific subfields including Computer Networks and Communications, Hardware and Architecture, Information Systems, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their work addresses several advanced topics such as:

Advanced Data Storage Technologies
Caching and Content Delivery
Cloud Computing and Resource Management
Network Packet Processing and Optimization
Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
Distributed Systems and Fault Tolerance

Keeton's recent papers include:

"DINOMO," 2022, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
"Succinct Range Filters," 2020, ACM Transactions on Database Systems
"WiscSort: External Sorting for Byte-Addressable Storage," 2023, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
"Farview: Disaggregated Memory with Operator Off-loading for Database Engines," 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
"Farview: Disaggregated Memory with Operator Off-loading for Database Engines," 2021, Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)

Publication venues where Keeton has frequently contributed include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
ACM Transactions on Database Systems
Communications of the ACM
Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)

Regular collaborators with whom Keeton has coauthored multiple works are:

Huanchen Zhang
David G. Andersen
Michael Kaminsky
Andrew Pavlo
Sekwon Lee

Keeton's recognitions include:

IEEE Fellow (2021) for contributions to storage and memory systems
ACM Fellow (2018) for contributions improving the dependability, manageability, and usability of storage and novel memory systems
ACM Distinguished Member (2012)
ACM Senior Member (2010)

Best Publications

A case for intelligent RAM

D. Patterson;T. Anderson;N. Cardwell;R. Fromm

1128
Citations
A case for intelligent disks (IDISKs)

Kimberly Keeton;David A. Patterson;Joseph M. Hellerstein

454
Citations
Hibernator: helping disk arrays sleep through the winter

Qingbo Zhu;Zhifeng Chen;Lin Tan;Yuanyuan Zhou

446
Citations
Responding to a query in a data processing system

Kimberly Keeton;Charles B. Morrey;Craig A. Soules

422
Citations
Hippodrome: running circles around storage administration

Eric Anderson;Michael Hobbs;Kimberly Keeton;Susan Spence

379
Citations
Performance characterization of a Quad Pentium Pro SMP using OLTP workloads

Kimberly Keeton;David A. Patterson;Yong Qiang He;Roger C. Raphael

361
Citations
Scalable processors in the billion-transistor era: IRAM

C.E. Kozyrakis;S. Perissakis;D. Patterson;T. Anderson

287
Citations
Providing connection-oriented network services to mobile hosts

Kimberly Keeton;Bruce A. Mah;Srinivasan Seshan;Randy H. Katz

254
Citations
An Analysis of Persistent Memory Use with WHISPER

Sanketh Nalli;Swapnil Haria;Mark D. Hill;Michael M. Swift

209
Citations
A Case for Intelligent RAM: IRAM

David Patterson;Thomas Anderson;Neal Cardwell;Richard Fromm

207
Citations
Proceedings of the 12th USENIX conference on Operating Systems Design and Implementation

Kimberly Keeton;Timothy Roscoe

205
Citations
Intelligent RAM (IRAM): chips that remember and compute

D. Patterson;T. Anderson;N. Cardwell;R. Fromm

168
Citations
SuRF: Practical Range Query Filtering with Fast Succinct Tries

Huanchen Zhang;Hyeontaek Lim;Viktor Leis;David G. Andersen

168
Citations
Solving the straggler problem with bounded staleness

James Cipar;Qirong Ho;Jin Kyu Kim;Seunghak Lee

127
Citations
A framework for evaluating storage system dependability

K. Keeton;A. Merchant

106
Citations
NVthreads: Practical Persistence for Multi-threaded Applications

Terry Ching-Hsiang Hsu;Helge Brügner;Indrajit Roy;Kimberly Keeton

105
Citations
Method of designing storage system

Kimberly Keeton;John Wilkes;Cipriano A. Santos;Dirk Beyer

101
Citations
System and method for interposition-based selective simulation of faults for access requests to a data storage system

Kimberly Keeton;Arif Merchant;John Wilkes

101
Citations
Beyond processor-centric operating systems

Paolo Faraboschi;Kimberly Keeton;Tim Marsland;Dejan Milojicic

96
Citations
LazyBase: trading freshness for performance in a scalable database

James Cipar;Greg Ganger;Kimberly Keeton;Charles B. Morrey

95
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Arif Merchant Google (United States)

Alistair Veitch Google (United States)

John Wilkes Google (United States)

David A. Patterson University of California, Berkeley

Marcos K. Aguilera VMware

David G. Andersen Carnegie Mellon University

Katherine Yelick University of California, Berkeley

Andrew Pavlo Carnegie Mellon University

Thomas Anderson University of Washington

Christos Kozyrakis Stanford University

External Links

Wikipedia of Kimberly Keeton Personal website of Kimberly Keeton Google Scholar page

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