2026 M. Tamer Özsu: 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	61	3038	2949	115	107	379	16750

Research.com Recognitions

2017 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2016 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
2011 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to distributed data management and multimedia database systems
2006 - ACM Fellow For contributions to distributed data management and service to the database community.

Overview

M. Tamer Özsu is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with significant focus areas in several subfields including Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Signal Processing, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

Graph Theory and Algorithms
Advanced Database Systems and Queries
Data Management and Algorithms
Complex Network Analysis Techniques
Caching and Content Delivery
Distributed systems and fault tolerance
Advanced Graph Neural Networks

Their recent papers demonstrate a range of interests within these topics. Selected publications include:

"The future is big graphs" (2021, Communications of the ACM)
"The case for distributed shared-memory databases with RDMA-enabled memory disaggregation" (2022, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment)
"aeSpTV: An Adaptive and Efficient Framework for Sparse Tensor-Vector Product Kernel on a High-Performance Computing Platform" (2020, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems)
"Scalable mining of maximal quasi-cliques" (2020, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment)
"sGrapp: Butterfly Approximation in Streaming Graphs" (2022, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data)

Özsu's frequent co-authors include:

Angela Bonifati
Da Yan
Lei Zou
Walid G. Aref
Aida Sheshbolouki

Frequent venues for publishing their work are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
The VLDB Journal
2022 IEEE 38th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)
Communications of the ACM

Throughout their career, Özsu has received several recognitions including:

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2017
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2016, Academy of Science
IEEE Fellow in 2011, for contributions to distributed data management and multimedia database systems
ACM Fellow in 2006, for contributions to distributed data management and service to the database community

Best Publications

Robust and fast similarity search for moving object trajectories

Lei Chen;M. Tamer Özsu;Vincent Oria

1678
Citations
Issues in data stream management

Lukasz Golab;M. Tamer Özsu

1484
Citations
Distributed and parallel database systems

M. Tamer Özsu;Patrick Valduriez

678
Citations
k-automorphism: a general framework for privacy preserving network publication

Lei Zou;Lei Chen;M. Tamer Özsu

545
Citations
Principles of Distributed Database Systems, third edition

M. Tamer Özsu;Patrick Valduriez

487
Citations
Principles of distributed database systems (2nd ed.)

M. Tamer Özsu;Patrick Valduriez

416
Citations
Processing sliding window multi-joins in continuous queries over data streams

Lukasz Golab;M Tamer Özsu

408
Citations
Diversified Stress Testing of RDF Data Management Systems

Güneş Aluç;Olaf Hartig;M. Tamer Özsu;Khuzaima Daudjee

356
Citations
gStore: answering SPARQL queries via subgraph matching

Lei Zou;Jinghui Mo;Lei Chen;M. Tamer Özsu

331
Citations
Multi-core, main-memory joins: sort vs. hash revisited

Cagri Balkesen;Gustavo Alonso;Jens Teubner;M. Tamer Özsu

328
Citations
Efficient core decomposition in massive networks

James Cheng;Yiping Ke;Shumo Chu;M. Tamer Ozsu

302
Citations
A comprehensive XQuery to SQL translation using dynamic interval encoding

David DeHaan;David Toman;Mariano P. Consens;M. Tamer Özsu

269
Citations
A Web page prediction model based on click-stream tree representation of user behavior

Şule Gündüz;M. Tamer Özsu

257
Citations
Distance-join: pattern match query in a large graph database

Lei Zou;Lei Chen;M. Tamer Özsu

256
Citations
An experimental comparison of pregel-like graph processing systems

Minyang Han;Khuzaima Daudjee;Khaled Ammar;M. Tamer Özsu

253
Citations
Distributed data management using MapReduce

Feng Li;Beng Chin Ooi;M. Tamer Özsu;Sai Wu

230
Citations
Using semantic knowledge of transactions to increase concurrency

Abdel Aziz Farrag;M. Tamer Özsu

228
Citations
Queries and query processing in object-oriented database systems

David D. Straube;M. Tamer Özsu

226
Citations
Distributed database systems: where are we now?

M.T. Ozsu;P. Valduriez

221
Citations
gStore: a graph-based SPARQL query engine

Lei Zou;M. Tamer Özsu;Lei Chen;Xuchuan Shen

220
Citations
Extending DBMSs with satellite databases

Christian Plattner;Gustavo Alonso;M. Tamer Özsu

78
Citations
Top-k Query Evaluation with Probabilistic Guarantees

Martin Theobald;Gerhard Weikum;Ralf Schenkel;Mario A. Nascimento

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Valduriez French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA

Duane Szafron University of Alberta

Lei Chen Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Dongyan Zhao Peking University

Lukasz Golab University of Waterloo

Donald Kossmann Microsoft (United States)

Asuman Dogac SRDC Software Research & Development and Consultancy Corp.

Renée J. Miller University of Toronto

Gustavo Alonso ETH Zurich

John C. S. Lui Chinese University of Hong Kong

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