2026 Lui Sha: Electronics and Electrical Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	73	1548	1501	804	774	381	31693
Electronics and Electrical Engineering	66	1115	1062	466	429	321	25717

Research.com Recognitions

2016 - IEEE Simon Ramo Medal “For technical leadership and contributions to fundamental theory, practice, and standardization for engineering real-time systems.”
2005 - ACM Fellow For contributions to real-time systems.
1998 - IEEE Fellow For technical leadership and research contributions which enabled the transformation of real time computing practice from ad hoc process to an engineering process based on analytical methods.

Overview

Lui Sha is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, with a notable focus on Artificial Intelligence, Control and Systems Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Their main research topics include:

Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
Fault Detection and Control Systems
Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems
Advanced Neural Network Applications
Real-Time Systems Scheduling
Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
Advanced Control Systems Optimization

Some of their recent papers include:

"Real-Time Task Scheduling for Machine Perception in In Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems" (2021), published in IEEE Transactions on Computers
"Sℒ₁-Simplex: Safe Velocity Regulation of Self-Driving Vehicles in Dynamic and Unforeseen Environments" (2022), published in ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems
"SchedGuard++: Protecting against Schedule Leaks Using Linux Containers on Multi-Core Processors" (2022), published in ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems
"Optimizing energy efficiency in buildings' cold water systems: A differential pressure control-based global approach" (2024), published in Energy and Buildings
"An Analyzable Inter-core Communication Framework for High-Performance Multicore Embedded Systems" (2021), published in Journal of Systems Architecture

Lui Sha has coauthored works with several researchers, including:

Naira Hovakimyan
Petros G. Voulgaris
Marco Caccamo
Hunmin Kim
Wenbin Wan

Their frequent publication venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems
AIAA AVIATION 2020 FORUM
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Energy and Buildings

Lui Sha's contributions have been recognized with several awards, such as:

IEEE Simon Ramo Medal (2016) for technical leadership and contributions to fundamental theory, practice, and standardization for engineering real-time systems
ACM Fellow (2005) for contributions to real-time systems
IEEE Fellow (1998) for technical leadership and research contributions enabling the transformation of real-time computing practice into an engineering process based on analytical methods

Best Publications

Priority inheritance protocols: an approach to real-time synchronization

L. Sha;R. Rajkumar;J.P. Lehoczky

3622
Citations
The rate monotonic scheduling algorithm: exact characterization and average case behavior

J. Lehoczky;L. Sha;Y. Ding

2434
Citations
Cyber-physical systems: the next computing revolution

Ragunathan (Raj) Rajkumar;Insup Lee;Lui Sha;John Stankovic

2425
Citations
Design and analysis of an MST-based topology control algorithm

Ning Li;J.C. Hou;L. Sha

1289
Citations
Real Time Scheduling Theory: A Historical Perspective

Lui Sha;Tarek Abdelzaher;Karl-Erik Årzén;Anton Cervin

900
Citations
Dynamic clustering for acoustic target tracking in wireless sensor networks

Wei-Peng Chen;J.C. Hou;Lui Sha

856
Citations
Design and analysis of an MST-based topology control algorithm

N. Li;J.C. Hou;L. Sha

829
Citations
ENHANCED APERIODIC RESPONSIVENESS IN HARD REAL-TIME ENVIRONMENTS.

John P. Lehoczky;Lui Sha;Jay K. Strosnider

782
Citations
Real-time communication and coordination in embedded sensor networks

J.A. Stankovic;T.E. Abdelzaher;Chenyang Lu;Lui Sha

695
Citations
On task schedulability in real-time control systems

D. Seto;J.P. Lehoczky;L. Sha;K.G. Shin

660
Citations
Cyber-Physical Systems: A New Frontier

Lui Sha;S. Gopalakrishnan;Xue Liu;Qixin Wang

631
Citations
Asynchronous wakeup for ad hoc networks

Rong Zheng;Jennifer C. Hou;Lui Sha

626
Citations
Aperiodic task scheduling for Hard-Real-Time systems

Unknown

604
Citations
The deferrable server algorithm for enhanced aperiodic responsiveness in hard real-time environments

J.K. Strosnider;J.P. Lehoczky;Lui Sha

591
Citations
Real-time synchronization protocols for multiprocessors

R. Rajkumar;L. Sha;J.P. Lehoczky

580
Citations
Real-time scheduling theory and Ada

Lui Sha;J.B. Goodenough

511
Citations
Using simplicity to control complexity

Lui Sha

461
Citations
SOLUTIONS FOR SOME PRACTICAL PROBLEMS IN PRIORITIZED PREEMPTIVE SCHEDULING.

Lui Sha;John P. Lehoczky;Ragunathan Rajkumar

416
Citations
An implicit prioritized access protocol for wireless sensor networks

M. Caccamo;L.Y. Zhang;Lui Sha;G. Buttazzo

410
Citations
MemGuard: Memory bandwidth reservation system for efficient performance isolation in multi-core platforms

Heechul Yun;Gang Yao;R. Pellizzoni;M. Caccamo

404
Citations
Generalized rate-monotonic scheduling theory: a framework for developing real-time systems

Lui Sha;R. Rajkumar;S.S. Sathaye

362
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Caccamo Technical University of Munich

Ragunathan Rajkumar Carnegie Mellon University

Xue Liu McGill University

John P. Lehoczky Carnegie Mellon University

Rodolfo Pellizzoni University of Waterloo

Tarek Abdelzaher University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Rong Zheng McMaster University

Jennifer C. Hou University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Naira Hovakimyan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Houbing Song University of Maryland, Baltimore County

External Links

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