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Nikhil Bansal publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nikhil Bansal sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 234 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Nikhil Bansal D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nikhil Bansal sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Overview

Nikhil Bansal is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on computer science, with a particular emphasis on computational theory and mathematics, computer networks and communications, artificial intelligence, industrial and manufacturing engineering, and numerical analysis.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

  • Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs
  • Optimization and Search Problems
  • Mathematical Approximation and Integration
  • Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation
  • Optimization and Packing Problems
  • Artificial Intelligence in Games
  • Advanced Bandit Algorithms Research

Bansal has published extensively, with a notable presence in publication venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • SIAM Journal on Computing
  • ACM Transactions on Algorithms
  • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics eBooks

Recent publications by Bansal include:

  • "Pseudorandom Density Matrices," 2025, PRX Quantum
  • "On-line balancing of random inputs," 2020, Random Structures and Algorithms

Bansal has also collaborated frequently with other researchers, particularly:

  • Raghu Meka
  • Makrand Sinha
  • Jatin Batra
  • William Kuszmaul
  • Christian Coester

Aside from the papers authored solely by Bansal, they have contributed to other notable works such as:

  • "Improving Traditional Stock Market Prediction Algorithms using Covid-19 Analysis," 2021, 2021 International Conference on Emerging Smart Computing and Informatics (ESCI)
  • "Sticky Brownian Rounding and its Applications to Constraint Satisfaction Problems," 2022, ACM Transactions on Algorithms
  • "Decremental APSP in Unweighted Digraphs Versus an Adaptive Adversary," 2021, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)

Best Publications

  • Correlation clustering

    N. Bansal;A. Blum;S. Chawla

  • Capacity, delay and mobility in wireless ad-hoc networks

    N. Bansal;Z. Liu

  • Analysis of SRPT scheduling: investigating unfairness

    Nikhil Bansal;Mor Harchol-Balter

  • Speed scaling to manage energy and temperature

    Nikhil Bansal;Tracy Kimbrel;Kirk Pruhs

  • Size-based scheduling to improve web performance

    Mor Harchol-Balter;Bianca Schroeder;Nikhil Bansal;Mukesh Agrawal

  • A Primal-Dual Randomized Algorithm for Weighted Paging

    Nikhil Bansal;Niv Buchbinder;Joseph (Seffi) Naor

  • Speed Scaling for Weighted Flow Time

    Nikhil Bansal;Kirk Pruhs;Cliff Stein

  • The Santa Claus problem

    Nikhil Bansal;Maxim Sviridenko

  • When LP Is the Cure for Your Matching Woes: Improved Bounds for Stochastic Matchings

    Nikhil Bansal;Anupam Gupta;Jian Li;Julián Mestre

  • Approximation algorithms for deadline-TSP and vehicle routing with time-windows

    Nikhil Bansal;Avrim Blum;Shuchi Chawla;Adam Meyerson

  • Speed Scaling with an Arbitrary Power Function

    Nikhil Bansal;Ho-Leung Chan;Kirk Pruhs

  • A Polylogarithmic-Competitive Algorithm for the k-Server Problem

    Nikhil Bansal;Niv Buchbinder;Aleksander Madry;Joseph (Seffi) Naor

  • Dynamic speed scaling to manage energy and temperature

    N. Bansal;T. Kimbrel;K. Pruhs

  • The geometry of scheduling

    N Nikhil Bansal;KR Pruhs

  • SODA: an optimizing scheduler for large-scale stream-based distributed computer systems

    Joel Wolf;Nikhil Bansal;Kirsten Hildrum;Sujay Parekh

  • Constructive Algorithms for Discrepancy Minimization

    Nikhil Bansal

  • SODA: An Optimizing Scheduler for Large-Scale Stream-Based Distributed Computer Systems

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  • Bin Packing in Multiple Dimensions: Inapproximability Results and Approximation Schemes

    Nikhil Bansal;Jos R. Correa;Claire Kenyon;Maxim Sviridenko

  • Min-Max Graph Partitioning and Small Set Expansion

    Nikhil Bansal;Uriel Feige;Robert Krauthgamer;Konstantin Makarychev

  • Optimal Long Code Test with One Free Bit

    Nikhil Bansal;Subhash Khot

  • Improved Bounds for Speed Scaling in Devices Obeying the Cube-Root Rule

    Nikhil Bansal;Ho-Leung Chan;Kirk Pruhs;Dmitriy Katz

Frequent Co-Authors

Kirk Pruhs
Kirk Pruhs University of Pittsburgh
Maxim Sviridenko
Maxim Sviridenko Yahoo (United States)
Anupam Gupta
Anupam Gupta Carnegie Mellon University
Joseph (Seffi) Naor
Joseph (Seffi) Naor Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Niv Buchbinder
Niv Buchbinder Tel Aviv University
Atri Rudra
Atri Rudra University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Joel L. Wolf
Joel L. Wolf IBM (United States)
Mor Harchol-Balter
Mor Harchol-Balter Carnegie Mellon University
Aravind Srinivasan
Aravind Srinivasan University of Maryland, College Park
Avrim Blum
Avrim Blum Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

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