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6039
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Randal Burns is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Computer Science, with an emphasis on several subfields, including Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence, Molecular Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics such as Caching and Content Delivery, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Graph Theory and Algorithms, Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs, Scientific Computing and Data Management, Advanced Data Storage Technologies, and Cell Image Analysis Techniques.

Randal Burns has contributed to multiple publication venues, with notable frequent appearances in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Annual Review of Neuroscience
  • 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)
  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their recent papers include:

  • "Toward Community-Driven Big Open Brain Science: Open Big Data and Tools for Structure, Function, and Genetics" (2020, Annual Review of Neuroscience)
  • "Streaming Sparse Graphs using Efficient Dynamic Sets" (2021, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data))
  • "Prospective Learning: Principled Extrapolation to the Future" (2022, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • "Supervised dimensionality reduction for big data" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "A low-resource reliable pipeline to democratize multi-modal connectome estimation and analysis" (2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Randal Burns include Joshua T Vogelstein, Brian Wheatman, Meghana Madhyastha, Carey E. Priebe, and Adam S. Charles.

Randal Burns was recognized as an ACM Senior Member in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Provable Data Possession at Untrusted Stores.

    Giuseppe Ateniese;Randal C. Burns;Reza Curtmola;Joseph Herring

  • A public turbulence database cluster and applications to study Lagrangian evolution of velocity increments in turbulence

    Yi Li;Eric Perlman;Minping Wan;Yunke Yang

  • MR-PDP: Multiple-Replica Provable Data Possession

    R. Curtmola;O. Khan;R. Burns;G. Ateniese

  • Remote data checking using provable data possession

    Giuseppe Ateniese;Randal Burns;Reza Curtmola;Joseph Herring

  • Rethinking erasure codes for cloud file systems: minimizing I/O for recovery and degraded reads

    Osama Khan;Randal Burns;James Plank;William Pierce

  • Whole-brain serial-section electron microscopy in larval zebrafish

    David Grant Colburn Hildebrand;Marcelo Cicconet;Russel M. Iguel Torres;Russel M. Iguel Torres;Woohyuk Choi

  • Continuous availability and efficient backup for externally referenced objects

    Randal Chilton Burns;Inderpal Singh Narang

  • Data exploration of turbulence simulations using a database cluster

    Eric Perlman;Randal Burns;Yi Li;Charles Meneveau

  • Remote data checking for network coding-based distributed storage systems

    Bo Chen;Reza Curtmola;Giuseppe Ateniese;Randal Burns

  • System and method for differential compression of data from a plurality of binary sources

    Miklos Ajtai;Randal Chilton Burns;Ronald Fagin;Larry Joseph Stockmeyer

  • FlashGraph: processing billion-node graphs on an array of commodity SSDs

    Da Zheng;Disa Mhembere;Randal Burns;Joshua Vogelstein

  • A Web services accessible database of turbulent channel flow and its use for testing a new integral wall model for LES

    J. Graham;K. Kanov;X. I. A. Yang;M. Lee

  • Secure array of remotely encrypted storage devices

    Randal Chilton Burns;Edward Gustav Chron;Darrell Long;Benjamin Clay Reed

  • Method for generating and reconstructing in-place delta files

    Randal Chilton Burns;Darrell D. E. Long

  • Ext3cow: a time-shifting file system for regulatory compliance

    Zachary Peterson;Randal Burns

  • Decentralized remotely encrypted file system

    Randal Chilton Burns;Edward Gustav Chron;Darrell Long;Benjamin Clay Reed

  • Robust remote data checking

    Reza Curtmola;Osama Khan;Randal Burns

  • Lease based safety protocol for distributed system with multiple networks

    Randal Chilton Burns;Atul Goel;Darrell D. E. Long;Robert Michael Rees

  • Compactly encoding unstructured inputs with differential compression

    Miklos Ajtai;Randal Burns;Ronald Fagin;Darrell D. E. Long

  • Multilevel streaming for out-of-core surface reconstruction

    Matthew Bolitho;Michael Kazhdan;Randal Burns;Hugues Hoppe

Frequent Co-Authors

Joshua T. Vogelstein
Joshua T. Vogelstein Johns Hopkins University
Alexander S. Szalay
Alexander S. Szalay Johns Hopkins University
Darrell D. E. Long
Darrell D. E. Long University of California, Santa Cruz
Carey E. Priebe
Carey E. Priebe Johns Hopkins University
Charles Meneveau
Charles Meneveau Johns Hopkins University
Michael Kazhdan
Michael Kazhdan Johns Hopkins University
Gregory L. Eyink
Gregory L. Eyink Johns Hopkins University
Andreas Terzis
Andreas Terzis Google (United States)
Jeff W. Lichtman
Jeff W. Lichtman Harvard University
Giuseppe Ateniese
Giuseppe Ateniese George Mason University

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