2026 Mahesh Balakrishnan: 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	39	9662	9385	103	102	265	7499

Overview

Mahesh Balakrishnan is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in India. Their research spans fields including Engineering and Computer Science, with a focus on multiple subfields and specialized topics.

The main fields of study for Mahesh Balakrishnan include:

Engineering
Computer Science

Within these broad fields, their work covers several subfields of study such as:

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Management Information Systems
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Artificial Intelligence
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

The scientist's main research topics involve:

Quality and Supply Management
Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
Online Learning and Analytics
Tactile and Sensory Interactions
Surgical Simulation and Training
Augmented Reality Applications
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security

Mahesh Balakrishnan has published multiple papers across different venues, some of the notable recent publications include:

The role of digital technologies in supply chain resilience for emerging markets' automotive sector, 2021, Nottingham Trent University's Institutional Repository (Nottingham Trent Repository)
Towards development of a tele-mentoring framework for minimally invasive surgeries, 2021, International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery
Preliminary design and evaluation of a remote tele-mentoring system for minimally invasive surgery, 2022, Surgical Endoscopy
Phytoplankton biodiversity in the two perennial lakes of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, 2020, Acta Ecologica Sinica
Design Space Exploration of FPGA-Based System With Multiple DNN Accelerators, 2020, IEEE Embedded Systems Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mahesh Balakrishnan include:

Mus'ab Sahrim
Irneza Ismail
Juliza Jamaludin
Jayshree Suresh
Wan Zakiah Wan Ismail

The primary publication venues where Mahesh Balakrishnan's work appears most often are:

International Journal of Enterprise Network Management
International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery
AIP conference proceedings
IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering
International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management

Best Publications

Scratchpad memory: a design alternative for cache on-chip memory in embedded systems

Rajeshwari Banakar;Stefan Steinke;Bo-Sik Lee;M. Balakrishnan

990
Citations
Technical change, competition and vertical integration

Srinivasan Balakrishnan;Birger Wernerfelt

898
Citations
Extending SSD lifetimes with disk-based write caches

Gokul Soundararajan;Vijayan Prabhakaran;Mahesh Balakrishnan;Ted Wobber

378
Citations
Consistency-based service level agreements for cloud storage

Douglas B. Terry;Vijayan Prabhakaran;Ramakrishna Kotla;Mahesh Balakrishnan

331
Citations
Differential RAID: rethinking RAID for SSD reliability

Mahesh Balakrishnan;Asim Kadav;Vijayan Prabhakaran;Dahlia Malkhi

291
Citations
ASIP design methodologies: survey and issues

M.K. Jain;M. Balakrishnan;A. Kumar

227
Citations
Communicating using a cloud infrastructure

Patrick Stuedi;Mahesh Balakrishnan;Iqbal Mohomed;Venugopalan Ramasubramanian

226
Citations
Tango: distributed data structures over a shared log

Mahesh Balakrishnan;Dahlia Malkhi;Ted Wobber;Ming Wu

198
Citations
Seamless splicing of MPEG-2 multimedia data streams

Hayder Radha;Mahesh Balakrishnan;Kavitha Parthasarathy

193
Citations
CORFU: a shared log design for flash clusters

Mahesh Balakrishnan;Dahlia Malkhi;Vijayan Prabhakaran;Ted Wobber

185
Citations
Strategy Content and the Research Process: A Critique and Commentary

Cynthia A. Montgomery;Birger Wernerfelt;Srinivasan Balakrishnan

183
Citations
Reducing energy consumption by dynamic copying of instructions onto onchip memory

Stefan Steinke;Nils Grunwald;Lars Wehmeyer;Rajeshwari Banakar

174
Citations
MISTRAL: efficient flooding in mobile ad-hoc networks

Stefan Pleisch;Mahesh Balakrishnan;Ken Birman;Robbert van Renesse

142
Citations
Method for seamless splicing in a video encoder

Mahesh Balakrishnan;Cedric Caron

139
Citations
Dr. multicast: Rx for data center communication scalability

Ymir Vigfusson;Hussam Abu-Libdeh;Mahesh Balakrishnan;Ken Birman

137
Citations
Where's that phone?: geolocating IP addresses on 3G networks

Mahesh Balakrishnan;Iqbal Mohomed;Venugopalan Ramasubramanian

135
Citations
On the treeness of internet latency and bandwidth

Venugopalan Ramasubramanian;Dahlia Malkhi;Fabian Kuhn;Mahesh Balakrishnan

117
Citations
Method and apparatus for dynamically controlling encoding parameters of multiple encoders in a multiplexed system

Mahesh Balakrishnan

105
Citations
A Framework for Energy-Consumption-Based Design Space Exploration for Wireless Sensor Nodes

S. Chouhan;R. Bose;M. Balakrishnan

90
Citations
Method and system for implementing interactive broadcast and commercial advertisement

Vaidya M Balakrishnan P

90
Citations
Dr. Multicast: Rx for data center communication scalability

Ymir Vigfusson;Hussam Abu-Libdeh;Mahesh Balakrishnan;Ken Birman

23
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth P. Birman Cornell University

Dahlia Malkhi Diem Association

Hakim Weatherspoon Cornell University

Marcos K. Aguilera VMware

Hayder Radha Michigan State University

Peter Marwedel TU Dortmund University

Douglas B. Terry Amazon Web Services

Kiran Challapali Philips (Finland)

Fabian Kuhn University of Freiburg

Ittai Abraham VMware

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