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Lothar Thiele

Lothar Thiele

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Computer Science
Switzerland
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
92
Citations
76364
World Ranking
532
National Ranking
17

Lothar Thiele publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lothar Thiele sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 640 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Lothar Thiele D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lothar Thiele sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 92 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2010 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Lothar Thiele is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple areas within computer science and engineering, with a strong focus on wireless networks, real-time systems, and energy harvesting technologies.

Their recent publications include:

  • Wireless Control for Smart Manufacturing: Recent Approaches and Open Challenges, 2020, Proceedings of the IEEE
  • HiMap: Fast and Scalable High-Quality Mapping on CGRA via Hierarchical Abstraction, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
  • FlockLab 2: Multi-Modal Testing and Validation for Wireless IoT, 2020, Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)
  • Measuring what Really Matters: Optimizing Neural Networks for TinyML, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • In situ observations of the Swiss periglacial environment using GNSS instruments, 2022, Earth system science data

The scientist collaborates regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Andreas Biri
  • Olga Saukh
  • Romain Jacob
  • Reto Da Forno
  • Jan Beutel

The main fields of study covered by their work are computer science and engineering. More specifically, they focus on subfields such as:

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Artificial Intelligence

Their research addresses several specialized topics, including:

  • Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks
  • Real-Time Systems Scheduling
  • Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies
  • Wireless Body Area Networks
  • Network Time Synchronization Technologies

Thiele's work has been published extensively in a variety of venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)
  • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
  • ACM Transactions on Internet of Things

In 2010, they were recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea.

Best Publications

  • Multiobjective evolutionary algorithms: a comparative case study and the strength Pareto approach

    E. Zitzler;L. Thiele

  • SPEA2: Improving the strength pareto evolutionary algorithm

    Eckart Zitzler;Marco Laumanns;Lothar Thiele

  • Comparison of Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms: Empirical Results

    Eckart Zitzler;Kalyanmoy Deb;Lothar Thiele

  • Performance assessment of multiobjective optimizers: an analysis and review

    E. Zitzler;L. Thiele;M. Laumanns;C.M. Fonseca

  • Multiobjective Optimization Using Evolutionary Algorithms - A Comparative Case Study

    Eckart Zitzler;Lothar Thiele

  • Scalable Test Problems for Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization

    Kalyanmoy Deb;Lothar Thiele;Marco Laumanns;Eckart Zitzler

  • Scalable multi-objective optimization test problems

    K. Deb;L. Thiele;M. Laumanns;E. Zitzler

  • Combining convergence and diversity in evolutionary multiobjective optimization

    Marco Laumanns;Lothar Thiele;Kalyanmoy Deb;Eckart Zitzler

  • A Tutorial on the Performance Assessment of Stochastic Multiobjective Optimizers

    Joshua Knowles;Lothar Thiele;Eckart Zitzler

  • SPEA2: Improving the Strength Pareto Evolutionary Algorithm For Multiobjective Optimization

    Eckart Zitzler;Marco Laumanns;Lothar Thiele

  • A comparison of selection schemes used in evolutionary algorithms

    Tobias Blickle;Lothar Thiele

  • A systematic comparison and evaluation of biclustering methods for gene expression data

    Amela Prelić;Stefan Bleuler;Philip Zimmermann;Anja Wille

  • An evolutionary algorithm for multiobjective optimization: the strength Pareto approach

    Eckart Zitzler;Lothar Thiele

  • Real-time calculus for scheduling hard real-time systems

    L. Thiele;S. Chakraborty;M. Naedele

  • The hypervolume indicator revisited: on the design of pareto-compliant indicators via weighted integration

    Eckart Zitzler;Dimo Brockhoff;Lothar Thiele

  • PISA: A platform and programming language independent interface for search algorithms

    Stefan Bleuler;Marco Laumanns;Lothar Thiele;Eckart Zitzler

  • Efficient network flooding and time synchronization with Glossy

    Federico Ferrari;Marco Zimmerling;Lothar Thiele;Olga Saukh

  • A preference-based evolutionary algorithm for multi-objective optimization

    Lothar Thiele;Kaisa Miettinen;Pekka J. Korhonen;Julian Molina

  • Sparse graphical Gaussian modeling of the isoprenoid gene network in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Anja Wille;Anja Wille;Philip Zimmermann;Philip Zimmermann;Eva Vranová;Eva Vranová;Andreas Fürholz;Andreas Fürholz

  • An efficient, adaptive parameter variation scheme for metaheuristics based on the epsilon-constraint method

    Marco Laumanns;Lothar Thiele;Eckart Zitzler

  • Scalable test problems for evolutionary multi-objective optimization

    Kalyanmoy Deb;Lothar Thiele;Marco Laumanns;Eckart Zitzler

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Beutel
Jan Beutel ETH Zurich
Eckart Zitzler
Eckart Zitzler Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Jian-Jia Chen
Jian-Jia Chen TU Dortmund University
Samarjit Chakraborty
Samarjit Chakraborty University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jürgen Teich
Jürgen Teich University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Marco Laumanns
Marco Laumanns ZF Friedrichshafen (Germany)
Luca Benini
Luca Benini ETH Zurich
Rolf Ernst
Rolf Ernst Technische Universität Braunschweig
Luca Mottola
Luca Mottola Polytechnic University of Milan
Zimu Zhou
Zimu Zhou City University of Hong Kong

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