2026 Krishna P. Gummadi: 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	77	1235	1194	48	48	225	36441

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Krishna P. Gummadi is a researcher affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Germany. Their work spans multiple areas within computer science and social sciences, focusing on the intersection of technology and society.

The scientist's research contributions include numerous publications in prominent venues. Some of the recent papers include:

Geographic Dissection of the Twitter Network, 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Media Landscape in Twitter: A World of New Conventions and Political Diversity, 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
The Many Shades of Anonymity: Characterizing Anonymous Social Media Content, 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
The Emergence of Conventions in Online Social Networks, 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Blind Justice: Fairness with Encrypted Sensitive Attributes, 2025, PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal)

Gummadi frequently coauthors with several researchers, including:

Abhijnan Chakraborty (20 publications)
Abhisek Dash (14 publications)
Saptarshi Ghosh (13 publications)
Animesh Mukherjee (12 publications)
Vedant Nanda (10 publications)

The scientist has published extensively in various venues, with a notable presence in:

arXiv (Cornell University) - 31 publications
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media - 13 publications
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence - 3 publications
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction - 3 publications
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems - 2 publications

Krishna P. Gummadi's main fields of study are:

Computer Science (65 publications)
Social Sciences (45 publications)

Their research delves into several subfields such as:

Artificial Intelligence (46 publications)
Sociology and Political Science (25 publications)
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (14 publications)
Information Systems (11 publications)
Safety Research (9 publications)

Key topics explored in their work include:

Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning (18 publications)
Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (16 publications)
Social Media and Politics (14 publications)
Complex Network Analysis Techniques (14 publications)
Misinformation and Its Impacts (14 publications)
Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (14 publications)
Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications (12 publications)

Best Publications

Measuring User Influence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy

Meeyoung Cha;Hamed Haddadi;Fabr´ıcio Benevenuto;Krishna P. Gummadi

4597
Citations
Measurement and analysis of online social networks

Alan Mislove;Massimiliano Marcon;Krishna P. Gummadi;Peter Druschel

4293
Citations
On the evolution of user interaction in Facebook

Bimal Viswanath;Alan Mislove;Meeyoung Cha;Krishna P. Gummadi

1907
Citations
Measurement, modeling, and analysis of a peer-to-peer file-sharing workload

Krishna P. Gummadi;Richard J. Dunn;Stefan Saroiu;Steven D. Gribble

1355
Citations
A measurement-driven analysis of information propagation in the flickr social network

Meeyoung Cha;Alan Mislove;Krishna P. Gummadi

1099
Citations
Fairness Beyond Disparate Treatment & Disparate Impact: Learning Classification without Disparate Mistreatment

Muhammad Bilal Zafar;Isabel Valera;Manuel Gomez Rodriguez;Krishna P. Gummadi

1080
Citations
You are who you know: inferring user profiles in online social networks

Alan Mislove;Bimal Viswanath;Krishna P. Gummadi;Peter Druschel

1011
Citations
King: estimating latency between arbitrary internet end hosts

Krishna P. Gummadi;Stefan Saroiu;Steven D. Gribble

968
Citations
An analysis of internet content delivery systems

Stefan Saroiu;Krishna P. Gummadi;Richard J. Dunn;Steven D. Gribble

925
Citations
Fairness Constraints: Mechanisms for Fair Classification.

Muhammad Bilal Zafar;Isabel Valera;Manuel Gomez Rodriguez;Krishna P. Gummadi

921
Citations
Towards trusted cloud computing

Nuno Santos;Krishna P. Gummadi;Rodrigo Rodrigues

916
Citations
The impact of DHT routing geometry on resilience and proximity

K. Gummadi;R. Gummadi;S. Gribble;S. Ratnasamy

853
Citations
Analyzing facebook privacy settings: user expectations vs. reality

Yabing Liu;Krishna P. Gummadi;Balachander Krishnamurthy;Alan Mislove

779
Citations
King: estimating latency between arbitrary internet end hosts

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636
Citations
Growth of the flickr social network

Alan Mislove;Hema Swetha Koppula;Krishna P. Gummadi;Peter Druschel

595
Citations
Measuring and analyzing the characteristics of Napster and Gnutella hosts

Stefan Saroiu;Krishna P. Gummadi;Steven D. Gribble

580
Citations
Understanding and combating link farming in the twitter social network

Saptarshi Ghosh;Bimal Viswanath;Farshad Kooti;Naveen Kumar Sharma

502
Citations
Characterizing residential broadband networks

Marcel Dischinger;Andreas Haeberlen;Krishna P. Gummadi;Stefan Saroiu

477
Citations
An analysis of social network-based Sybil defenses

Bimal Viswanath;Ansley Post;Krishna P. Gummadi;Alan Mislove

460
Citations
Improving the reliability of internet paths with one-hop source routing

Krishna P. Gummadi;Harsha V. Madhyastha;Steven D. Gribble;Henry M. Levy

445
Citations
Equity of Attention: Amortizing Individual Fairness in Rankings

Asia J. Biega;Krishna P. Gummadi;Gerhard Weikum

430
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Mislove Northeastern University

Niloy Ganguly Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Saptarshi Ghosh Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Fabrício Benevenuto Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Meeyoung Cha Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Adrian Weller University of Cambridge

Stefan Saroiu Microsoft (United States)

Steven D. Gribble Google (United States)

Peter Druschel Max Planck Institute for Software Systems

Gerhard Weikum Max Planck Institute for Informatics

External Links

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