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2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
73
Citations
47750
World Ranking
1534
National Ranking
59

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2008 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Informatics
  • 2008 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2000 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Peter Druschel is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Germany. Their research spans various topics within computer science and its applications particularly in health and security domains.

Their research contributions include work published in notable venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Research Square, Scientific Reports, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). Frequently, their papers appear in preprint and open access platforms, reflecting a focus on timely dissemination of findings.

Recent selected publications by Peter Druschel include:

  • Listening to Bluetooth Beacons for Epidemic Risk Mitigation, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • SeCloak: ARM Trustzone-based Mobile Peripheral Control, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Listening to Bluetooth Beacons for Epidemic Risk Mitigation, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Listening to Bluetooth Beacons for Epidemic Risk Mitigation, 2021, Research Square (Research Square)

Their frequent co-authors in scientific publications include:

  • Deepak Garg
  • Roberta De Viti
  • Pierfrancesco Ingo
  • Matthew Lentz
  • Gilles Barthe

Peter Druschel's research fields are primarily situated within computer science, with significant work in the following subfields:

  • Information Systems
  • Epidemiology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • General Health Professions
  • Artificial Intelligence

Their work covers a number of scientific topics, most prominently:

  • COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing
  • Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
  • Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Security and Verification in Computing
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis

Awards and honors received by Peter Druschel include:

  • Member of Academia Europaea, 2008
  • German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften (Informatics), 2008
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2000

Best Publications

  • Pastry: Scalable, Decentralized Object Location, and Routing for Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems

    Antony I. T. Rowstron;Peter Druschel

  • Measurement and analysis of online social networks

    Alan Mislove;Massimiliano Marcon;Krishna P. Gummadi;Peter Druschel

  • Storage management and caching in PAST, a large-scale, persistent peer-to-peer storage utility

    Antony Rowstron;Peter Druschel

  • Scribe: a large-scale and decentralized application-level multicast infrastructure

    M. Castro;P. Druschel;A.-M. Kermarrec;A.I.T. Rowstron

  • SplitStream: high-bandwidth multicast in cooperative environments

    Miguel Castro;Peter Druschel;Anne-Marie Kermarrec;Animesh Nandi

  • Secure routing for structured peer-to-peer overlay networks

    Miguel Castro;Peter Druschel;Ayalvadi Ganesh;Antony Rowstron

  • Resource containers: a new facility for resource management in server systems

    Gaurav Banga;Peter Druschel;Jeffrey C. Mogul

  • You are who you know: inferring user profiles in online social networks

    Alan Mislove;Bimal Viswanath;Krishna P. Gummadi;Peter Druschel

  • PAST: a large-scale, persistent peer-to-peer storage utility

    P. Druschel;A. Rowstron

  • SCRIBE: The Design of a Large-Scale Event Notification Infrastructure

    Antony I. T. Rowstron;Anne-Marie Kermarrec;Miguel Castro;Peter Druschel

  • Locality-aware request distribution in cluster-based network servers

    Vivek S. Pai;Mohit Aron;Gaurov Banga;Michael Svendsen

  • Towards a Common API for Structured Peer-to-Peer Overlays

    Frank Dabek;Ben Y. Zhao;Peter Druschel;John Kubiatowicz

  • IO-Lite: a unified I/O buffering and caching system

    Vivek S. Pai;Peter Druschel;Willy Zwaenepoel

  • Fbufs: a high-bandwidth cross-domain transfer facility

    Peter Druschel;Larry L. Peterson

  • Growth of the flickr social network

    Alan Mislove;Hema Swetha Koppula;Krishna P. Gummadi;Peter Druschel

  • Flash: an efficient and portable web server

    Vivek S. Pai;Peter Druschel;Willy Zwaenepoel

  • Squirrel: a decentralized peer-to-peer web cache

    Sitaram Iyer;Antony Rowstron;Peter Druschel

  • Peer-to-peer systems

    Rodrigo Rodrigues;Peter Druschel

  • PeerReview: practical accountability for distributed systems

    Andreas Haeberlen;Petr Kouznetsov;Peter Druschel

  • Scalable content-aware request distribution in cluster-based networks servers

    Mohit Aron;Darren Sanders;Peter Druschel;Willy Zwaenepoel

Frequent Co-Authors

Bobby Bhattacharjee
Bobby Bhattacharjee University of Maryland, College Park
Antony Rowstron
Antony Rowstron Microsoft (United States)
Alan Mislove
Alan Mislove Northeastern University
Andreas Haeberlen
Andreas Haeberlen University of Pennsylvania
Miguel Castro
Miguel Castro Microsoft (United States)
Larry L. Peterson
Larry L. Peterson Princeton University
Krishna P. Gummadi
Krishna P. Gummadi Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
Willy Zwaenepoel
Willy Zwaenepoel University of Sydney
Anne-Marie Kermarrec
Anne-Marie Kermarrec École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Dan S. Wallach
Dan S. Wallach Rice University

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