2026 Kostas E. Bekris: 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	46	6801	6602	2991	2877	198	9460

Overview

Kostas E. Bekris is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in the United States. Their research encompasses multiple fields within engineering and computer science, with a primary focus on robotics and automation.

The main fields of study for Kostas E. Bekris include:

Engineering
Computer Science

Within these broad fields, Bekris has contributed significantly to several subfields of study, notably:

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Control and Systems Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
Civil and Structural Engineering

The key research topics addressed include:

Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
Robot Manipulation and Learning
Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
Structural Analysis and Optimization
Human Pose and Action Recognition
Advanced Materials and Mechanics

The scientist has published numerous papers, among which recent notable works are:

"Sim2Real in Robotics and Automation: Applications and Challenges" (2021), published in IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
"se(3)-TrackNet: Data-driven 6D Pose Tracking by Calibrating Image Residuals in Synthetic Domains" (2020), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
"Tensegrity Robotics" (2021), published in Soft Robotics
"BundleTrack: 6D Pose Tracking for Novel Objects without Instance or Category-Level 3D Models" (2021), published in 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
"CaTGrasp: Learning Category-Level Task-Relevant Grasping in Clutter from Simulation" (2022), published in 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Bekris has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

Bowen Wen
Kun Wang
Jingjin Yu
Aravind Sivaramakrishnan
Abdeslam Boularias

Their publications have appeared in various venues, with multiple contributions to:

arXiv (Cornell University)
2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Bekris has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by Springer International Publishing:

"Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics XII" (2020)

Best Publications

Robotics-based location sensing using wireless Ethernet

Andrew M. Ladd;Kostas E. Bekris;Algis Rudys;Lydia E. Kavraki

909
Citations
Robotics-based location sensing using wireless ethernet

Andrew M. Ladd;Kostas E. Bekris;Algis Rudys;Guillaume Marceau

906
Citations
Analysis and Observations From the First Amazon Picking Challenge

Nikolaus Correll;Kostas E. Bekris;Dmitry Berenson;Oliver Brock

569
Citations
Indoor Human Navigation Systems {a Survey

Navid Fallah;Ilias Apostolopoulos;Kostas E. Bekris;Eelke Folmer

374
Citations
On the feasibility of using wireless ethernet for indoor localization

A.M. Ladd;K.E. Bekris;A.P. Rudys;D.S. Wallach

354
Citations
Asymptotically optimal sampling-based kinodynamic planning

Yanbo Li;Zakary Littlefield;Kostas E. Bekris

282
Citations
Sampling-based roadmap of trees for parallel motion planning

E. Plaku;K.E. Bekris;B.Y. Chen;A.M. Ladd

230
Citations
Push and swap: fast cooperative path-finding with completeness guarantees

Ryan Luna;Kostas E. Bekris

218
Citations
A Dataset for Improved RGBD-Based Object Detection and Pose Estimation for Warehouse Pick-and-Place

Colin Rennie;Rahul Shome;Kostas E. Bekris;Alberto F. De Souza

198
Citations
Tensegrity Robotics.

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165
Citations
Efficient and complete centralized multi-robot path planning

Ryan Luna;Kostas E. Bekris

160
Citations
The user as a sensor: navigating users with visual impairments in indoor spaces using tactile landmarks

Navid Fallah;Ilias Apostolopoulos;Kostas Bekris;Eelke Folmer

157
Citations
Sparse roadmap spanners for asymptotically near-optimal motion planning

Andrew Dobson;Kostas E. Bekris

157
Citations
Robot Homing by Exploiting Panoramic Vision

Antonis A. Argyros;Kostas E. Bekris;Stelios C. Orphanoudakis;Lydia E. Kavraki

153
Citations
Greedy but Safe Replanning under Kinodynamic Constraints

K.E. Bekris;L.E. Kavraki

145
Citations
Dealing with difficult instances of object rearrangement

Athanasios Krontiris;Kostas E. Bekris

138
Citations
Sim2Real in Robotics and Automation: Applications and Challenges

Sebastian Hofer;Kostas Bekris;Ankur Handa;Juan Camilo Gamboa

136
Citations
Using wireless Ethernet for localization

A.M. Ladd;K.E. Bekris;G. Marceau;A. Rudys

130
Citations
se(3)-TrackNet: Data-driven 6D Pose Tracking by Calibrating Image Residuals in Synthetic Domains

Bowen Wen;Chaitanya Mitash;Baozhang Ren;Kostas E. Bekris

119
Citations
Asymptotically Near-Optimal Planning With Probabilistic Roadmap Spanners

James D. Marble;Kostas E. Bekris

118
Citations
A self-supervised learning system for object detection using physics simulation and multi-view pose estimation

Chaitanya Mitash;Kostas E. Bekris;Abdeslam Boularias

107
Citations
Multiple query probabilistic roadmap planning using single query planning primitives

K.E. Bekris;B.Y. Chen;A.M. Ladd;E. Plaku

94
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Lydia E. Kavraki Rice University

Dan Halperin Tel Aviv University

Dan S. Wallach Rice University

Antonis A. Argyros University of Crete

Alberto Rodriguez MIT

Nikolaus Correll University of Colorado Boulder

Kei Okada University of Tokyo

Kris Hauser Duke University

Oliver Brock Technical University of Berlin

Shuran Song Stanford University

External Links

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