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47
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7773
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6567
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2903

Peter A. Dinda 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 Peter A. Dinda sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 188 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter A. Dinda 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 Peter A. Dinda sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 47 D-Index — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to virtualization technologies in adaptive and parallel computing

Overview

Peter A. Dinda is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research largely focuses on computer science, with a total of nine publications in the field. The work spans several subfields including computer vision and pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, hardware and architecture, computer networks and communications, and information systems.

The scientist has contributed to multiple topics such as security and verification in computing, network packet processing and optimization, network security and intrusion detection, video surveillance and tracking methods, video analysis and summarization, human pose and action recognition, and cloud data security solutions.

Peter A. Dinda has published research in various venues, notably:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Artifact Digital Object Group
  • ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems

Recent papers include:

  • CAMP: Compiler and Allocator-based Heap Memory Protection, 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Source Kernel for Conference Paper:, 2022, Artifact Digital Object Group
  • Efficient Video Redaction at the Edge: Human Motion Tracking for Privacy Protection, 2025, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems
  • TRUSTCHECKPOINTS: Time Betrays Malware for Unconditional Software Root of Trust, 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)

Co-authorship collaborations have been established primarily with Simone Campanoni, followed by Zhenpeng Lin, Zheng Yu, Ziyi Guo, and Xinyu Xing. Simone Campanoni co-authored two papers with Peter A. Dinda, while the other coauthors have contributed to one paper each.

Among professional recognitions, Peter A. Dinda was named an IEEE Fellow in 2015 for contributions to virtualization technologies in adaptive and parallel computing.

Best Publications

  • A case for grid computing on virtual machines

    R.J. Figueiredo;P.A. Dinda;J.A.B. Fortes

  • Demo: indoor localization without infrastructure using the acoustic background spectrum

    Stephen P. Tarzia;Peter A. Dinda;Robert P. Dick;Gokhan Memik

  • Host load prediction using linear models

    Peter A. Dinda;David R. O'Hallaron

  • Towards virtual networks for virtual machine grid computing

    Ananth I. Sundararaj;Peter A. Dinda

  • Online Prediction of the Running Time of Tasks

    Peter A. Dinda

  • The statistical properties of host load

    Peter A. Dinda

  • Palacios and Kitten: New high performance operating systems for scalable virtualized and native supercomputing

    John Lange;Kevin Pedretti;Trammell Hudson;Peter Dinda

  • Guest Editors' Introduction: Resource Virtualization Renaissance

    R. Figueiredo;P.A. Dinda;J. Fortes

  • An evaluation of linear models for host load prediction

    P.A. Dinda;D.R. O'Hallaron

  • VSched: Mixing Batch And Interactive Virtual Machines Using Periodic Real-time Scheduling

    Bin Lin;Peter A. Dinda

  • Reversible sketches: enabling monitoring and analysis over high-speed data streams

    Robert Schweller;Zhichun Li;Yan Chen;Yan Gao

  • Methods and systems for automatic inference and adaptation of virtualized computing environments

    Peter Dinda;Ananth Sundararaj;John Lange;Ashish Gupta

  • Wayback: a user-level versioning file system for linux

    Brian Cornell;Peter A. Dinda;Fabián E. Bustamante

  • Performance characteristics of mirror servers on the Internet

    A. Myers;P. Dinda;Hui Zhang

  • Modeling and taming parallel TCP on the wide area network

    Dong Lu;Yi Qiao;P.A. Dinda;F.E. Bustamante

  • Sonar-based measurement of user presence and attention

    Stephen P. Tarzia;Robert P. Dick;Peter A. Dinda;Gokhan Memik

  • Design, implementation, and performance of an extensible toolkit for resource prediction in distributed systems

    P.A. Dinda

  • An Extensible Toolkit for Resource Prediction In Distributed Systems

    P. Dinda;D. O'Hallaron

  • Characterizing and modeling user activity on smartphones: summary

    Alex Shye;Benjamin Scholbrock;Gokhan Memik;Peter A. Dinda

  • Minimal-overhead virtualization of a large scale supercomputer

    John R. Lange;Kevin Pedretti;Peter Dinda;Patrick G. Bridges

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert P. Dick
Robert P. Dick University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Gokhan Memik
Gokhan Memik Northwestern University
David R. O'Hallaron
David R. O'Hallaron Carnegie Mellon University
Fabián E. Bustamante
Fabián E. Bustamante Northwestern University
Alok Choudhary
Alok Choudhary Northwestern University
Ron Brightwell
Ron Brightwell Sandia National Laboratories
Ming-Yang Kao
Ming-Yang Kao Northwestern University
Matthew Flatt
Matthew Flatt University of Utah
Beth Plale
Beth Plale Indiana University
Pai H. Chou
Pai H. Chou University of California, Irvine

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