2026 Ouri Wolfson: 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	56	4005	3892	1909	1842	279	15717

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Research.com Recognitions

2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2001 - ACM Fellow For his pioneering research in moving object databases and for his fundamental contributions to research in distributed systems.

Overview

Ouri Wolfson is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. Their research spans several fields, most notably Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Social Sciences. Within these broad domains, their work focuses on cognitive neuroscience, transportation, computer networks and communications, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and building and construction.

Wolfson's research topics cover a range of area including functional brain connectivity studies, neural dynamics and brain function, human mobility and location-based analysis, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, traffic prediction and management techniques, smart cities and technologies, and geographic information systems studies.

They have published several papers across notable venues, including:

Connectome Signatures of Hyperexcitation in Cognitively Intact Middle-Aged Female APOE-ε4 Carriers, 2020, Cerebral Cortex
The 11th International Workshop on Urban Computing, 2022, Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Grand challenges for the spatial information community, 2020, Journal of Spatial Information Science
Geographic-Region Monitoring by Drones in Adversarial Environments, 2023, ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems
Smart Technologies and Cities, Specialty Grand Challenge, 2020, Frontiers in Sustainable Cities

Frequent co-authors include Igor Fortel, Laura E. Korthauer, Zachery D. Morrissey, Liang Zhan, and Olusola Ajilore.

Wolfson's work has appeared in various publication venues, notably:

Cerebral Cortex
Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Journal of Spatial Information Science
ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems
Frontiers in Sustainable Cities

Their research contributions have been recognized with awards including being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009 and an ACM Fellow in 2001 for pioneering research in moving object databases and contributions to distributed systems.

Best Publications

Urban Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, and Applications

Yu Zheng;Licia Capra;Ouri Wolfson;Hai Yang

1707
Citations
Modeling and querying moving objects

A. Prasad Sistla;O. Wolfson;S. Chamberlain;S. Dao

952
Citations
Moving objects databases: issues and solutions

O. Wolfson;B. Xu;S. Chamberlain;L. Jiang

776
Citations
T-share: A large-scale dynamic taxi ridesharing service

Shuo Ma;Yu Zheng;O. Wolfson

656
Citations
Transportation mode detection using mobile phones and GIS information

Leon Stenneth;Ouri Wolfson;Philip S. Yu;Bo Xu

609
Citations
Updating and Querying Databases that Track Mobile Units

Ouri Wolfson;A. Prasad Sistla;Sam Chamberlain;Yelena Yesha

606
Citations
An adaptive data replication algorithm

Ouri Wolfson;Sushil Jajodia;Yixiu Huang

577
Citations
Managing uncertainty in moving objects databases

Goce Trajcevski;Ouri Wolfson;Klaus Hinrichs;Sam Chamberlain

462
Citations
Real-Time City-Scale Taxi Ridesharing

Shuo Ma;Yu Zheng;Ouri Wolfson

409
Citations
Method and system for querying in a moving object database

Ouri Wolfson

350
Citations
Spatio-temporal data reduction with deterministic error bounds

Hu Cao;Ouri Wolfson;Goce Trajcevski

304
Citations
Electric Vehicle Routing Problem

Jane Lin;Wei Zhou;Ouri Wolfson

304
Citations
A Spatiotemporal Model and Language for Moving Objects on Road Networks

Michalis Vazirgiannis;Ouri Wolfson

277
Citations
A quadtree-based dynamic attribute indexing method

Jamel Tayeb;Özgür Ulusoy;Ouri Wolfson

275
Citations
Opportunistic resource exchange in inter-vehicle ad-hoc networks

Bo Xu;A. Ouksel;O. Wolfson

274
Citations
Data replication for mobile computers

Yixiu Huang;Prasad Sistla;Ouri Wolfson

267
Citations
Cost and imprecision in modeling the position of moving objects

O. Wolfson;S. Chamberlain;Son Dao;Liqin Jiang

256
Citations
Querying the uncertain position of moving objects

A. Prasad Sistla;Ouri Wolfson;Sam Chamberlain;Son Dao

255
Citations
The multicast policy and its relationship to replicated data placement

Ouri Wolfson;Amir Milo

220
Citations
A weight-based map matching method in moving objects databases

Huabei Yin;O. Wolfson

208
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

A. Prasad Sistla University of Illinois at Chicago

Monika Sester University of Hannover

Stephan Winter University of Melbourne

Malek Adjouadi Florida International University

Peter Scheuermann Northwestern University

Yelena Yesha University of Miami

Bhaskar DasGupta University of Illinois at Chicago

Yu Zheng Jingdong (China)

Sushil Jajodia George Mason University

Salvatore J. Stolfo Columbia University

External Links

Personal website of Ouri Wolfson Google Scholar page

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