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Petros Faloutsos

Petros Faloutsos

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
34
Citations
14091
World Ranking
11874
National Ranking
461

Petros Faloutsos 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 Petros Faloutsos sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 128 publications — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Petros Faloutsos 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 Petros Faloutsos sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Petros Faloutsos is affiliated with York University in Canada and has contributed extensively to the interdisciplinary fields intersecting engineering and computational modeling. Their primary research focus lies within evacuation and crowd dynamics, a topic they have explored through multiple publications spanning the past decade.

Their work encompasses various fields of study, prominently including:

  • Engineering

Alongside the main field, Faloutsos has addressed specialized subfields such as:

  • Ocean Engineering
  • Building and Construction
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Automotive Engineering
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

This range outlines a multidisciplinary approach often connecting physical infrastructure, control systems, and safety considerations.

The scientific outputs also focus on specific research topics, with notable frequency in:

  • Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
  • Traffic Control and Management
  • Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
  • Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
  • Traffic and Road Safety
  • Educational Games and Gamification
  • Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing

Petros Faloutsos's recent noteworthy publications include:

  • "Heterogeneous Crowd Simulation Using Parametric Reinforcement Learning," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • "Predicting Crowd Egress and Environment Relationships to Support Building Design Optimization," 2020, Computers & Graphics
  • "Modelling distracted agents in crowd simulations," 2020, The Visual Computer
  • "Gamification of Crowd-Driven Environment Design," 2020, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
  • "Automatic estimation of parametric saliency maps (PSMs) for autonomous pedestrians," 2022, Computers & Graphics

These publications demonstrate Faloutsos's engagement with dynamic modeling of crowds, design optimization, and interactions between autonomous systems and human agents.

The venues publishing Faloutsos's research are predominantly outlets specializing in computer graphics and visualization, reflecting a computational emphasis within their work. Key publication venues include:

  • Computers & Graphics
  • IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
  • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • The Visual Computer
  • Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds

Collaborative research is significant in Faloutsos's career, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Mubbasir Kapadia
  • Brandon Haworth
  • Muhammad Usman
  • Glen Berseth
  • Melissa Kremer

These colleagues have collaborated on multiple projects, jointly contributing to the development of crowd simulation, autonomous pedestrian modeling, and environment design as part of computational engineering research.

Best Publications

  • On power-law relationships of the Internet topology

    Michalis Faloutsos;Petros Faloutsos;Christos Faloutsos

  • On power-law relationships of the Internet topology

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  • Power laws and the AS-level Internet topology

    Georgos Siganos;Michalis Faloutsos;Petros Faloutsos;Christos Faloutsos

  • Composable controllers for physics-based character animation

    Petros Faloutsos;Michiel van de Panne;Demetri Terzopoulos

  • Dynamic free-form deformations for animation synthesis

    P. Faloutsos;M. Van de Panne;D. Terzopoulos

  • Expressive speech-driven facial animation

    Yong Cao;Wen C. Tien;Petros Faloutsos;Frédéric Pighin

  • Egocentric affordance fields in pedestrian steering

    Mubbasir Kapadia;Shawn Singh;William Hewlett;Petros Faloutsos

  • Automatic splicing for hand and body animations

    A. Majkowska;V. B. Zordan;P. Faloutsos

  • Interactive motion correction and object manipulation

    Ari Shapiro;Marcelo Kallmann;Petros Faloutsos

  • Style components

    Ari Shapiro;Yong Cao;Petros Faloutsos

  • SteerBench: a benchmark suite for evaluating steering behaviors

    Shawn Singh;Mubbasir Kapadia;Petros Faloutsos;Glenn Reinman

  • The virtual stuntman: dynamic characters with a repertoire of autonomous motor skills

    Petros Faloutsos;Michiel van de Panne;Demetri Terzopoulos;Demetri Terzopoulos

  • The Art of Deception: Adaptive Precision Reduction for Area Efficient Physics Acceleration

    Thomas Yeh;Petros Faloutsos;Milos Ercegovac;Sanjay Patel

  • Hybrid control for interactive character animation

    A. Shapiro;F. Pighin;P. Faloutsos

  • A modular framework for adaptive agent-based steering

    Shawn Singh;Mubbasir Kapadia;Billy Hewlett;Glenn Reinman

  • Unsupervised learning for speech motion editing

    Yong Cao;Petros Faloutsos;Frédéric Pighin

  • Footstep navigation for dynamic crowds

    Shawn Singh;Mubbasir Kapadia;Glenn Reinman;Petros Faloutsos

  • Real-time speech motion synthesis from recorded motions

    Yong Cao;Petros Faloutsos;Eddie Kohler;Frédéric Pighin

  • Fool me twice: Exploring and exploiting error tolerance in physics-based animation

    Thomas Y. Yeh;Glenn Reinman;Sanjay J. Patel;Petros Faloutsos

  • A Behavior-Authoring Framework for Multiactor Simulations

    M. Kapadia;S. Singh;G. Reinman;P. Faloutsos

  • Scenario space: characterizing coverage, quality, and failure of steering algorithms

    Mubbasir Kapadia;Matt Wang;Shawn Singh;Glenn Reinman

  • Dynamic Animation and Control Environment

    Ari Shapiro;Petros Faloutsos;Victor Ng-Thow-Hing

  • Automatic splicing for hand and body animations

    Anna Majkowska;Victor Zordan;Petros Faloutsos

  • Flipping with physics: motion editing for acrobatics

    Anna Majkowska;Petros Faloutsos

  • Footstep navigation for dynamic crowds

    Shawn Singh;Mubbasir Kapadia;Glenn Reinman;Petros Faloutsos

Frequent Co-Authors

Glenn Reinman
Glenn Reinman University of California, Los Angeles
Demetri Terzopoulos
Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles
Sanjay J. Patel
Sanjay J. Patel University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michalis Faloutsos
Michalis Faloutsos University of California, Riverside
Gregory P. Carman
Gregory P. Carman University of California, Los Angeles
Daniel Thalmann
Daniel Thalmann École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Vladimir Pavlovic
Vladimir Pavlovic Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Michiel van de Panne
Michiel van de Panne University of British Columbia
Christos Faloutsos
Christos Faloutsos Carnegie Mellon University
Milos D. Ercegovac
Milos D. Ercegovac University of California, Los Angeles

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