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Randy H. Katz 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 Randy H. Katz sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 451 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Randy H. Katz 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 Randy H. Katz sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 123 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing

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

  • A case for redundant arrays of inexpensive disks (RAID)

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

  • Next century challenges: mobile networking for “Smart Dust”

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

  • A comparison of mechanisms for improving TCP performance over wireless links

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

  • Improving MapReduce performance in heterogeneous environments

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

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

    Benjamin Hindman;Andy Konwinski;Matei Zaharia;Ali Ghodsi

  • RAID: high-performance, reliable secondary storage

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

  • Improving TCP/IP performance over wireless networks

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

  • Implementation techniques for main memory database systems

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

  • Heterogeneity and dynamicity of clouds at scale: Google trace analysis

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

  • Improving reliable transport and handoff performance in cellular wireless networks

    Hari Balakrishnan;Srinivasan Seshan;Randy H. Katz

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

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

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

    Mark Stemm;Randy H. Katz

  • Vertical handoffs in wireless overlay networks

    Mark Stemm;Randy H. Katz

  • An architecture for a secure service discovery service

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

  • Characterizing the Internet hierarchy from multiple vantage points

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

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

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

  • Toward a unified framework for version modeling in engineering databases

    Randy H. Katz

  • Policy-enabled handoffs across heterogeneous wireless networks

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

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Patterson
David A. Patterson University of California, Berkeley
Ion Stoica
Ion Stoica University of California, Berkeley
Anthony D. Joseph
Anthony D. Joseph University of California, Berkeley
Garth A. Gibson
Garth A. Gibson Carnegie Mellon University
Srinivasan Seshan
Srinivasan Seshan Carnegie Mellon University
David E. Culler
David E. Culler University of California, Berkeley
Lakshminarayanan Subramanian
Lakshminarayanan Subramanian New York University
Ethan L. Miller
Ethan L. Miller University of California, Santa Cruz
Peter M. Chen
Peter M. Chen University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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