2026 Randy H. Katz: 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	123	124	119	74	71	451	89332

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2002 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2000 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to high-performance input/output systems, engineering education, and government service.
1999 - ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award For outstanding contributions to Computer Science education as teacher, mentor, researcher, and educational innovator.
1996 - ACM Fellow For contributions to computer system design, engineering education, and government service.

Overview

Randy H. Katz is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research contributions primarily span across the field of Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Information Systems, Computer Networks and Communications, Infectious Diseases, Modeling and Simulation, and General Health Professions.

The scientist's work covers topics such as Cloud Computing and Resource Management, Blockchain Technology Applications and Security, Caching and Content Delivery, Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, Public Health Policies and Education, and IoT and Edge/Fog Computing.

Several notable recent papers include:

Core Concepts, Challenges, and Future Directions in Blockchain, 2020, ACM Computing Surveys
Moving academic research forward during COVID-19, 2020, Science
Kernel-as-a-Service: A Serverless Interface to GPUs, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
From Data to Knowledge to Action: Enabling the Smart Grid, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
180: Characteristics of Persons With Positive COVID-19 PCR Tests Later Testing Negative for Antibodies, 2020, Critical Care Medicine

Randy H. Katz has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including John Kolb, Moustafa AbdelBaky, David Culler, N. S. Wigginton, and Rebecca M. Cunningham.

Publications by this scientist appear in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), ACM Computing Surveys, Science, and Critical Care Medicine. The scientist's research has engaged with topics across multiple disciplines including technology for distributed computing systems as well as studies related to public health and epidemiology.

Over their career, Randy H. Katz has received multiple recognitions. These include membership in the National Academy of Engineering awarded in 2000 for contributions to high-performance input/output systems, engineering education, and government service.

Other honors include being named Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011, ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award in 1999 for contributions to education and mentorship, and ACM Fellow in 1996 for work in computer system design, education, and government service.

Best Publications

A view of cloud computing

Michael Armbrust;Armando Fox;Rean Griffith;Anthony D. Joseph

15186
Citations
Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing

Michael Armbrust;Armando Fox;Rean Griffith;Anthony D. Joseph

7690
Citations
A case for redundant arrays of inexpensive disks (RAID)

David A. Patterson;Garth Gibson;Randy H. Katz

4547
Citations
Next century challenges: mobile networking for “Smart Dust”

J. M. Kahn;R. H. Katz;K. S. J. Pister

3052
Citations
A comparison of mechanisms for improving TCP performance over wireless links

Hari Balakrishnan;Venkata N. Padmanabhan;Srinivasan Seshan;Randy H. Katz

2995
Citations
Improving MapReduce performance in heterogeneous environments

Matei Zaharia;Andy Konwinski;Anthony D. Joseph;Randy Katz

2385
Citations
Mesos: a platform for fine-grained resource sharing in the data center

Benjamin Hindman;Andy Konwinski;Matei Zaharia;Ali Ghodsi

2342
Citations
RAID: high-performance, reliable secondary storage

Peter M. Chen;Edward K. Lee;Garth A. Gibson;Randy H. Katz

2031
Citations
Improving TCP/IP performance over wireless networks

Hari Balakrishnan;Srinivasan Seshan;Elan Amir;Randy H. Katz

1300
Citations
Implementation techniques for main memory database systems

David J DeWitt;Randy H Katz;Frank Olken;Leonard D Shapiro

1300
Citations
Heterogeneity and dynamicity of clouds at scale: Google trace analysis

Charles Reiss;Alexey Tumanov;Gregory R. Ganger;Randy H. Katz

1267
Citations
Improving reliable transport and handoff performance in cellular wireless networks

Hari Balakrishnan;Srinivasan Seshan;Randy H. Katz

1225
Citations
Bayeux: an architecture for scalable and fault-tolerant wide-area data dissemination

Shelley Q. Zhuang;Ben Y. Zhao;Anthony D. Joseph;Randy H. Katz

1197
Citations
Measuring and Reducing Energy Consumption of Network Interfaces in Hand-Held Devices

Mark Stemm;Randy H. Katz

1142
Citations
Vertical handoffs in wireless overlay networks

Mark Stemm;Randy H. Katz

1102
Citations
An architecture for a secure service discovery service

Steven E. Czerwinski;Ben Y. Zhao;Todd D. Hodes;Anthony D. Joseph

989
Citations
Characterizing the Internet hierarchy from multiple vantage points

L. Subramanian;S. Agarwal;J. Rexford;R.H. Katz

832
Citations
Fast and memory-efficient regular expression matching for deep packet inspection

Fang Yu;Zhifeng Chen;Yanlei Diao;T. V. Lakshman

800
Citations
Toward a unified framework for version modeling in engineering databases

Randy H. Katz

768
Citations
Policy-enabled handoffs across heterogeneous wireless networks

H.J. Wang;R.H. Katz;J. Giese

730
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Patterson University of California, Berkeley

Ion Stoica University of California, Berkeley

Anthony D. Joseph University of California, Berkeley

Garth A. Gibson Carnegie Mellon University

Srinivasan Seshan Carnegie Mellon University

David E. Culler University of California, Berkeley

Hari Balakrishnan MIT

Lakshminarayanan Subramanian New York University

Ethan L. Miller University of California, Santa Cruz

Peter M. Chen University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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