2026 Philip A. Bernstein: 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	85	787	758	426	408	306	42511

Research.com Recognitions

2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2003 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to transaction-processing and database systems.
2001 - ACM Fellow For pioneering work in distributed query optimization, distributed databases, distributed transaction processing, metadata management, and schema integration.

Overview

Philip A. Bernstein is affiliated with Microsoft in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Computer Science, with notable contributions across several subfields including Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Signal Processing, and Information Systems and Management.

The scientist's main topics of work cover a range of areas related to data and computing. These include:

Cloud Computing and Resource Management
Advanced Data Storage Technologies
Advanced Database Systems and Queries
Data Stream Mining Techniques
Data Management and Algorithms
Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
Distributed systems and fault tolerance

Philip A. Bernstein has contributed to numerous publications. Some of the recent papers include:

"The Seattle Report on Database Research," 2020, ACM SIGMOD Record
"The Seattle report on database research," 2022, Communications of the ACM
"Budget-aware Index Tuning with Reinforcement Learning," 2022, Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Management of Data
"Redy," 2021, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
"Cornus," 2022, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

Frequently appearing publication venues for this researcher include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
ACM SIGMOD Record
Communications of the ACM
Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Management of Data

Philip A. Bernstein has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including:

Qizhen Zhang
Badrish Chandramouli
Surajit Chaudhuri
Daniel J. Abadi
Magdalena Bałazińska

The scientist has received multiple awards recognizing contributions to the fields of database systems and computer science. These honors include:

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2016
Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2003, for contributions to transaction-processing and database systems
ACM Fellow, 2001, for pioneering work in distributed query optimization, distributed databases, distributed transaction processing, metadata management, and schema integration

Best Publications

Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems

Philip A. Bernstein;Vassco Hadzilacos;Nathan Goodman

6914
Citations
A survey of approaches to automatic schema matching

Erhard Rahm;Philip A. Bernstein

4810
Citations
Generic Schema Matching with Cupid

Jayant Madhavan;Philip A. Bernstein;Erhard Rahm

2194
Citations
Concurrency control in distributed database systems

P A Bernstein;N Goodman

1773
Citations
Middleware: a model for distributed system services

Philip A. Bernstein

1163
Citations
Principles of Transaction Processing

Philip A. Bernstein;Eric Newcomer

888
Citations
Methods and systems for model matching

Philip A. Bernstein;Jayant Madhavan

777
Citations
Applying Model Management to Classical Meta Data Problems

Philip A. Bernstein

734
Citations
Synthesizing third normal form relations from functional dependencies

Philip A. Bernstein

693
Citations
Query processing in a system for distributed databases (SDD-1)

Philip A. Bernstein;Nathan Goodman;Eugene Wong;Christopher L. Reeve

692
Citations
Multiversion concurrency control—theory and algorithms

Philip A. Bernstein;Nathan Goodman

691
Citations
Using Semi-Joins to Solve Relational Queries

Philip A. Bernstein;Dah-Ming W. Chiu

666
Citations
A language facility for designing database-intensive applications

John Mylopoulos;Philip A. Bernstein;Harry K. T. Wong

654
Citations
Computational problems related to the design of normal form relational schemas

Catriel Beeri;Philip A. Bernstein

646
Citations
Data Management for Peer-to-Peer Computing: A Vision

Philip A. Bernstein;Fausto Giunchiglia;Anastasios Kementsietsidis;John Mylopoulos

562
Citations
Corpus-based schema matching

J. Madhavan;P.A. Bernstein;A. Doan;A. Halevy

555
Citations
The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems

Jim Gray;Mamdouh Refaat;Jim Melton;Stephen Buxton

549
Citations
An algorithm for concurrency control and recovery in replicated distributed databases

Philip A. Bernstein;Nathan Goodman

499
Citations
Model management 2.0: manipulating richer mappings

Philip A. Bernstein;Sergey Melnik

493
Citations
On the correct translation of update operations on relational views

Umeshwar Dayal;Philip A. Bernstein

474
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Nathan Goodman George Mason University

Alon Halevy Facebook (United States)

Erhard Rahm Leipzig University

Michael Stonebraker MIT

Raghu Ramakrishnan Microsoft (United States)

Laura M. Haas University of Massachusetts Amherst

Michael J. Franklin University of Chicago

Michael J. Carey University of California, Irvine

Jennifer Widom Stanford University

Umeshwar Dayal Hitachi (Japan)

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