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Overview

Matei Ripeanu is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research spans several main fields of study including Computer Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these fields, their subfields of focus include Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing, Molecular Biology, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their work has involved a variety of scientific topics, with notable emphasis on Graph Theory and Algorithms, Advanced Database Systems and Queries, Data Management and Algorithms, as well as Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Machine Learning in Bioinformatics, Chemical Synthesis and Analysis, and Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks.

Among their recent publications are:

  • "The future is big graphs", 2021, Communications of the ACM
  • "The Future is Big Graphs! A Community View on Graph Processing Systems", 2020, Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)
  • "Scalable Pattern Matching in Metadata Graphs via Constraint Checking", 2021, ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing
  • "Maximum Flow on Highly Dynamic Graphs", 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "SSSP-Del: Fully Dynamic Distributed Algorithm for Single-Source Shortest Path", 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ripeanu include Sherif Sakr, Angela Bonifati, Hannes Voigt, Alexandru Iosup, and Khaled Ammar.

Their research has been published in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Communications of the ACM, Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich), and ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing.

Best Publications

  • Mapping the Gnutella network

    R. Matei;A. Iamnitchi;P. Foster

  • Peer-to-peer architecture case study: Gnutella network

    M. Ripeanu

  • Mapping the Gnutella Network: Properties of Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems and Implications for System Design

    Matei Ripeanu;Ian T. Foster;Adriana Iamnitchi

  • The socialbot network: when bots socialize for fame and money

    Yazan Boshmaf;Ildar Muslukhov;Konstantin Beznosov;Matei Ripeanu

  • Amazon S3 for science grids: a viable solution?

    Mayur R. Palankar;Adriana Iamnitchi;Matei Ripeanu;Simson Garfinkel

  • Giggle: A Framework for Constructing Scalable Replica Location Services

    Ann Chervenak;Ewa Deelman;Ian Foster;Leanne Guy

  • Mapping the Gnutella Network: Macroscopic Properties of Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems

    Matei Ripeanu;Ian T. Foster

  • Deconstructing the Kazaa network

    N. Leibowitz;M. Ripeanu;A. Wierzbicki

  • Design and analysis of a social botnet

    Yazan Boshmaf;Ildar Muslukhov;Konstantin Beznosov;Matei Ripeanu

  • Small-world file-sharing communities

    A. Iamnitchi;M. Ripeanu;I. Foster

  • Supporting Efficient Execution in Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Environments with Cactus and Globus

    Gabrielle Allen;Thomas Dramlitsch;Ian Foster;Nicholas T. Karonis

  • Influences on cooperation in BitTorrent communities

    Nazareno Andrade;Miranda Mowbray;Aliandro Lima;Gustavo Wagner

  • Locating Data in (Small-World?) Peer-to-Peer Scientific Collaborations

    Adriana Iamnitchi;Matei Ripeanu;Ian T. Foster

  • VMFlock: virtual machine co-migration for the cloud

    Samer Al-Kiswany;Dinesh Subhraveti;Prasenjit Sarkar;Matei Ripeanu

  • ‘To Share or not to Share’ An Analysis of Incentives to Contribute in Collaborative File Sharing Environments

    Kavitha Ranganathan;Matei Ripeanu;Ankur Sarin;Ian Foster

  • GPU-Qin: A methodology for evaluating the error resilience of GPGPU applications

    Bo Fang;Karthik Pattabiraman;Matei Ripeanu;Sudhanva Gurumurthi

  • Íntegro: Leveraging Victim Prediction for Robust Fake Account Detection in OSNs

    Yazan Boshmaf;Dionysios Logothetis;Georgos Siganos;Jorge Lería

  • The future is big graphs: a community view on graph processing systems

    Sherif Sakr;Angela Bonifati;Hannes Voigt;Alexandru Iosup

  • Cache replacement policies revisited: the case of P2P traffic

    A. Wierzbicki;N. Leibowitz;M. Ripeanu;R. Wozniak

  • A yoke of oxen and a thousand chickens for heavy lifting graph processing

    Abdullah Gharaibeh;Lauro Beltrao Costa;Elizeu Santos-Neto;Matei Ripeanu

  • A decentralized, adaptive replica location mechanism

    M. Ripeanu;I. Foster

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian Foster
Ian Foster University of Chicago
Adriana Iamnitchi
Adriana Iamnitchi Maastricht University
Konstantin Beznosov
Konstantin Beznosov University of British Columbia
Karthik Pattabiraman
Karthik Pattabiraman University of British Columbia
Daniel S. Katz
Daniel S. Katz University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michael Wilde
Michael Wilde Argonne National Laboratory
Ioan Raicu
Ioan Raicu Illinois Institute of Technology
Jussara M. Almeida
Jussara M. Almeida Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Alexandru Iosup
Alexandru Iosup Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Sudhanva Gurumurthi
Sudhanva Gurumurthi Advanced Micro Devices (United States)

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