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Robbert van Renesse

Robbert van Renesse

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
66
Citations
20120
World Ranking
2297
National Ranking
1148

Robbert van Renesse 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 Robbert van Renesse sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 236 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Robbert van Renesse 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 Robbert van Renesse sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 66 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% 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

  • 2009 - ACM Fellow For contributions to fault-tolerant distributed computing.

Overview

Robbert van Renesse is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and specializes in computer science. Their research primarily focuses on distributed systems and fault tolerance, blockchain technology applications and security, caching and content delivery, cloud data security solutions, cloud computing and resource management, advanced data storage technologies, and distributed and parallel computing systems.

The scientist's main field of study is computer science, with contributions distributed across several subfields. These include computer networks and communications, information systems, sociology and political science, hardware and architecture, and molecular biology.

Over their career, van Renesse has published extensively in several venues, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
  • ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization
  • 2022 IEEE 42nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Quorum Systems in Permissionless Networks," 2023, published at Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • "Charlotte: Reformulating Blockchains into a Web of Composable Attested Data Structures for Cross-Domain Applications," 2023, published in ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
  • "CacheInspector," 2021, published in ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization
  • "CedrusDB: Persistent Key-Value Store with Memory-Mapped Lazy-Trie," 2020, published on arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Scaling Membership of Byzantine Consensus," 2020, published in ACM Transactions on Computer Systems

Frequent collaborators include Isaac Sheff, Andrew C. Myers, Xin-Wen Wang, Haobin Ni, and Burcu Canakci. The collaboration with these coauthors has resulted in multiple publications and contributions across van Renesse's research domains.

Robbert van Renesse was recognized as an ACM Fellow in 2009 for contributions to fault-tolerant distributed computing.

Best Publications

  • Bitcoin-NG: a scalable blockchain protocol

    Ittay Eyal;Adem Efe Gencer;Emin Gün Sirer;Robbert Van Renesse

  • Astrolabe: A robust and scalable technology for distributed system monitoring, management, and data mining

    Robbert Van Renesse;Kenneth P. Birman;Werner Vogels

  • Distributed Operating Systems

    Andrew S. Tanenbaum;Robbert Van Renesse

  • Horus: a flexible group communication system

    Robbert van Renesse;Kenneth P. Birman;Silvano Maffeis

  • Reliable Distributed Computing with the Isis Toolkit

    Kenneth P. Birman;Robert V. Renesse;Robbert Van Renesse

  • A gossip-style failure detection service

    Robbert van Renesse;Yaron Minsky;Mark Hayden

  • Experiences with the Amoeba distributed operating system

    Andrew S. Tanenbaum;Robbert van Renesse;Hans van Staveren;Gregory J. Sharp

  • Chain replication for supporting high throughput and availability

    Robbert van Renesse;Fred B. Schneider

  • COCA: A secure distributed online certification authority

    Lidong Zhou;Fred B. Schneider;Robbert Van Renesse

  • Kelips: Building an efficient and stable P2P DHT through increased memory and background overhead

    Indranil Gupta;Kenneth P. Birman;Prakash Linga;Alan J. Demers

  • Decentralization in Bitcoin and Ethereum Networks

    Adem Efe Gencer;Soumya Basu;Ittay Eyal;Robbert van Renesse

  • COCA: A Secure Distributed On-line Certification Authority

    Lidong Zhou;Fred B. Schneider;Robbert Van Renesse

  • JiST: an efficient approach to simulation using virtual machines†

    Rimon Barr;Zygmunt J. Haas;Robbert van Renesse

  • Operating system support for mobile agents

    D. Johansen;R. van Renesse;F.B. Schneider

  • Distributed processing system with replicated management information base

    Robbert Van Renesse

  • Scalable distributed management information database

    Renesse Robert Van

  • Building Adaptive Systems Using Ensemble

    Robbert van Renesse;Ken Birman;Mark Hayden;Alexey Vaysburd

  • Toward a cloud computing research agenda

    Ken Birman;Gregory Chockler;Robbert van Renesse

  • An analysis of Facebook photo caching

    Qi Huang;Ken Birman;Robbert van Renesse;Wyatt Lloyd

  • Multicast protocol with reduced buffering requirements

    Robbert Van Renesse

  • Experiences with the amoeba distributed operating system

    Andrew S. Tanenbaum;Robbert Van Renesse;Hans Van Staveren;Gregory J. Sharp

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth P. Birman
Kenneth P. Birman Cornell University
Fred B. Schneider
Fred B. Schneider Cornell University
Dag Johansen
Dag Johansen University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Hakim Weatherspoon
Hakim Weatherspoon Cornell University
Emin Gün Sirer
Emin Gün Sirer Cornell University
Danny Dolev
Danny Dolev Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Andrew S. Tanenbaum Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Andrew C. Myers
Andrew C. Myers Cornell University
Robert L. Constable
Robert L. Constable Cornell University
Indranil Gupta
Indranil Gupta Dalhousie University

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