2026 Nikil Dutt: Electronics and Electrical Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	76	1343	1302	703	677	718	23004
Electronics and Electrical Engineering	72	807	770	345	318	641	20201

Research.com Recognitions

2014 - ACM Fellow For contributions to embedded architecture exploration, and service to electronic design automation and embedded systems.
2007 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

Nikil Dutt is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains, with a significant focus on computer science, medicine, and psychology. Within these main fields, their work covers subfields such as electrical and electronic engineering, experimental and cognitive psychology, computer networks and communications, hardware and architecture, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist's publications address a variety of topics, including digital mental health interventions, heart rate variability and autonomic control, mental health research topics, advanced memory and neural computing, parallel computing and optimization techniques, non-invasive vital sign monitoring, and emotion and mood recognition.

Selected recent papers include:

COVID Symptoms, Symptom Clusters, and Predictors for Becoming a Long-Hauler Looking for Clarity in the Haze of the Pandemic, 2022, Clinical Nursing Research
Sleep Tracking of a Commercially Available Smart Ring and Smartwatch Against Medical-Grade Actigraphy in Everyday Settings: Instrument Validation Study, 2020, JMIR mhealth and uhealth
COVID Symptoms, Symptom Clusters, and Predictors for Becoming a Long-Hauler: Looking for Clarity in the Haze of the Pandemic, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Long-Term IoT-Based Maternal Monitoring: System Design and Evaluation, 2021, Sensors
Objective stress monitoring based on wearable sensors in everyday settings, 2020, Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology

The scientist has collaborated frequently with the following co-authors:

Amir M. Rahmani (collaborations counted 52 and 35)
Sina Labbaf (32 collaborations)
Jessica L. Borelli (21 collaborations)
Iman Azimi (19 collaborations)

Their work appears regularly in notable publication venues, such as:

arXiv (Cornell University) with 34 publications
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems with 11 publications
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 10 publications
JMIR Formative Research with 8 publications
IEEE Embedded Systems Letters with 8 publications

Nikil Dutt has contributed to academic literature beyond articles, with published work in book form by Springer Nature, including "Dependable Embedded Systems" (2020).

Recognition includes the ACM Fellow award in 2014, given for contributions to embedded architecture exploration and service to electronic design automation and embedded systems, as well as the ACM Distinguished Member award in 2007.

Best Publications

High ― Level Synthesis: Introduction to Chip and System Design

Daniel D. Gajski;Nikil D. Dutt;Allen C.-H. Wu;Steve Y.-L. Lin

2038
Citations
High — Level Synthesis

Daniel D. Gajski;Nikil D. Dutt;Allen C-H Wu;Steve Y-L Lin

1010
Citations
EXPRESSION: a language for architecture exploration through compiler/simulator retargetability

Ashok Halambi;Peter Grun;Vijay Ganesh;Asheesh Khare

598
Citations
Data and memory optimization techniques for embedded systems

P. R. Panda;F. Catthoor;N. D. Dutt;K. Danckaert

543
Citations
SPARK: a high-level synthesis framework for applying parallelizing compiler transformations

S. Gupta;N. Dutt;R. Gupta;A. Nicolau

505
Citations
On-Chip Communication Architectures: System on Chip Interconnect

Sudeep Pasricha;Nikil Dutt

454
Citations
Efficient utilization of scratch-pad memory in embedded processor applications

Preeti Ranjan Panda;Nikil D. Dutt;Alexandru Nicolau

400
Citations
Memory Issues in Embedded Systems-on-Chip: Optimizations and Exploration

Preeti Ranjan Panda;Alexandru Nicolau;Nikil Dutt

353
Citations
On-chip vs. off-chip memory: the data partitioning problem in embedded processor-based systems

Preeti Ranjan Panda;Nikil D. Dutt;Alexandru Nicolau

330
Citations
Post-Quantum Lattice-Based Cryptography Implementations: A Survey

Hamid Nejatollahi;Nikil Dutt;Sandip Ray;Francesco Regazzoni

270
Citations
Reliable on-chip systems in the nano-era: lessons learnt and future trends

Jorg Henkel;Lars Bauer;Nikil Dutt;Puneet Gupta

240
Citations
Partitioned register files for VLIWs: a preliminary analysis of tradeoffs

Andrea Capitanio;Nikil Dutt;Alexandru Nicolau

236
Citations
Profile-Based Dynamic Voltage Scheduling Using Program Checkpoints

A. Azevedo;I. Issenin;R. Cornea;R. Gupta

211
Citations
Memory Issues in Embedded Systems-on-Chip

Preeti Ranjan Panda;Nikil Dutt;Alexandru Nicolau

204
Citations
Instruction set compiled simulation: a technique for fast and flexible instruction set simulation

Mehrdad Reshadi;Prabhat Mishra;Nikil Dutt

195
Citations
HiCH: Hierarchical Fog-Assisted Computing Architecture for Healthcare IoT

Iman Azimi;Arman Anzanpour;Amir M. Rahmani;Tapio Pahikkala

187
Citations
Underdesigned and Opportunistic Computing in Presence of Hardware Variability

P. Gupta;Y. Agarwal;L. Dolecek;N. Dutt

186
Citations
Integrated power management for video streaming to mobile handheld devices

Shivajit Mohapatra;Radu Cornea;Nikil Dutt;Alex Nicolau

180
Citations
A configurable simulation environment for the efficient simulation of large-scale spiking neural networks on graphics processors

Jayram Moorkanikara Nageswaran;Nikil Dutt;Jeffrey L. Krichmar;Alex Nicolau

176
Citations
2009 Special Issue: A configurable simulation environment for the efficient simulation of large-scale spiking neural networks on graphics processors

Jayram Moorkanikara Nageswaran;Nikil Dutt;Jeffrey L. Krichmar;Alex Nicolau

169
Citations
SPECTR: Formal Supervisory Control and Coordination for Many-core Systems Resource Management

Amir M. Rahmani;Bryan Donyanavard;Tiago Mück;Kasra Moazzemi

65
Citations
System and architecture-level power reduction of microprocessor-based communication and multi-media applications

Lode Nachtergaele;Vivek Tiwari;Nikil Dutt

6
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexandru Nicolau University of California, Irvine

Sudeep Pasricha Colorado State University

Fadi J. Kurdahi University of California, Irvine

Nalini Venkatasubramanian University of California, Irvine

Prabhat Mishra University of Florida

Jeffrey L. Krichmar University of California, Irvine

Rajesh Gupta University of California, San Diego

Axel Jantsch TU Wien

Pasi Liljeberg University of Turku

Puneet Gupta University of California, Los Angeles

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