2026 Michael Kazhdan: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	37	8220	7928	2257	2094	102	18142

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Engineering and Technology

8220

7928

2257

2094

102

18142

Engineering and Technology

D-Index

Citations

18142

World Ranking

8220

National Ranking

2257

Overview

Michael Kazhdan is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research work spans domains within computer science and engineering, with a particular focus on computer vision and pattern recognition as well as computational mechanics and computer graphics.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

Computer Science
Engineering

Subfields of their research cover:

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computational Mechanics
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Artificial Intelligence
Oncology

Key topics addressed in their work are:

3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation
Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
Human Pose and Action Recognition
AI in cancer detection
Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques
Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction

Michael Kazhdan has contributed to various notable publication venues, including:

arXiv (Cornell University)
ACM Transactions on Graphics
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
Computer Graphics Forum
Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Their recent research outputs include:

"Variational quadratic shape functions for polygons and polyhedra," 2022, ACM Transactions on Graphics
"Volumetric Video - Acquisition, Compression, Interaction and Perception," 2021, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
"ECHO: Extended Convolution Histogram of Orientations for Local Surface Description," 2020, Computer Graphics Forum
"Field Convolutions for Surface CNNs," 2021, 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
"Efficient Spatially Adaptive Convolution and Correlation," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent collaborators have included:

Thomas W. Mitchel
Szymon Rusinkiewicz
Vladimir G. Kim
Noam Aigerman
A. Bunge

Best Publications

Poisson surface reconstruction

Michael Kazhdan;Matthew Bolitho;Hugues Hoppe

3278
Citations
Screened poisson surface reconstruction

Michael Kazhdan;Hugues Hoppe

2955
Citations
The Princeton Shape Benchmark

P. Shilane;P. Min;M. Kazhdan;T. Funkhouser

2049
Citations
Rotation invariant spherical harmonic representation of 3D shape descriptors

Michael Kazhdan;Thomas Funkhouser;Szymon Rusinkiewicz

1855
Citations
A search engine for 3D models

Thomas Funkhouser;Patrick Min;Michael Kazhdan;Joyce Chen

1458
Citations
A Complete Electron Microscopy Volume of the Brain of Adult Drosophila melanogaster.

Zhihao Zheng;J. Scott Lauritzen;Eric Perlman;Camenzind G. Robinson

1110
Citations
Modeling by example

Thomas Funkhouser;Michael Kazhdan;Philip Shilane;Patrick Min

771
Citations
A Reflective Symmetry Descriptor for 3D Models

Michael Kazhdan;Bernard Chazelle;David Dobkin;Thomas Funkhouser

315
Citations
Data-Driven Approach to Generating Achievable Dose–Volume Histogram Objectives in Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy Planning

Binbin Wu;Francesco Ricchetti;Giuseppe Sanguineti;Michael Kazhdan

294
Citations
Reconstruction of solid models from oriented point sets

Michael Kazhdan

257
Citations
Symmetry descriptors and 3D shape matching

Michael Kazhdan;Thomas Funkhouser;Szymon Rusinkiewicz

232
Citations
The Princeton Shape Benchmark (Figures 1 and 2)

P. Shilane;P. Min;M. Kazhdan;T. Funkhouser

217
Citations
A Reflective Symmetry Descriptor

Michael M. Kazhdan;Bernard Chazelle;David P. Dobkin;Adam Finkelstein

189
Citations
Shape-based retrieval and analysis of 3d models

Thomas Funkhouser;Michael Kazhdan;Patrick Min;Philip Shilane

152
Citations
Shape-based retrieval and analysis of 3D models

Thomas Funkhouser;Michael Kazhdan

151
Citations
Streaming multigrid for gradient-domain operations on large images

Michael Kazhdan;Hugues Hoppe

151
Citations
Non-photorealistic virtual environments

Allison W. Klein;Wilmot Li;Michael M. Kazhdan;Wagner T. Corrêa

148
Citations
Shape matching and anisotropy

Michael Kazhdan;Thomas Funkhouser;Szymon Rusinkiewicz

132
Citations
Unconstrained isosurface extraction on arbitrary octrees

Michael Kazhdan;Allison Klein;Ketan Dalal;Hugues Hoppe

130
Citations
Increased organ sparing using shape-based treatment plan optimization for intensity modulated radiation therapy of pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

Steven F. Petit;Binbin Wu;Michael Kazhdan;André Dekker

125
Citations
Multilevel streaming for out-of-core surface reconstruction

Matthew Bolitho;Michael Kazhdan;Randal Burns;Hugues Hoppe

124
Citations
Proceedings of the Symposium on Geometry Processing

Konrad Polthier;Marc Alexa;Michael Kazhdan

23
Citations