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31
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3287
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Robert Connelly publication distribution in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mathematics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robert Connelly sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 537+

This scientist: 122 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 537 publications or more.

Robert Connelly D-index placement in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mathematics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robert Connelly sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 31 D-Index — 9th percentile

9% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 86 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

Overview

Robert Connelly is a researcher affiliated with Cornell University in the United States, specializing in fields related to Engineering and Computer Science. Their research extensively covers subfields such as Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Geometry and Topology, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Their academic output involves main topics including Structural Analysis and Optimization, Advanced Materials and Mechanics, Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation, Mathematics and Applications, Digital Image Processing Techniques, Cellular Mechanics and Interactions, and Architecture and Computational Design.

Among recent publications authored by Robert Connelly are:

  • Generically Globally Rigid Graphs Have Generic Universally Rigid Frameworks, 2020, COMBINATORICA
  • Global rigidity of complete bipartite graphs, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Rigidity of Circle Packings with Flexible Radii, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Robert Connelly include:

  • Simon D. Guest
  • Steven J. Gortler
  • Louis Theran
  • Zhen Zhang
  • Anthony Nixon

The primary venues where Robert Connelly has published work include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • COMBINATORICA
  • Discrete & Computational Geometry
  • Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
  • physica status solidi (b)

Robert Connelly also contributed to academic literature through book publications. One notable book is Frameworks, Tensegrities, and Symmetry, published in 2022 by Cambridge University Press.

In recognition of contributions to mathematics, Robert Connelly was named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Improving the Density of Jammed Disordered Packings Using Ellipsoids

    Aleksandar Donev;Ibrahim Cisse;Ibrahim Cisse;David Sachs;Evan A. Variano;Evan A. Variano

  • Generic Global Rigidity

    Robert Connelly

  • Second-Order Rigidity and Prestress Stability for TensegrityFrameworks

    Robert Connelly;Walter Whiteley

  • Rigidity and Energy

    Robert Connelly

  • Underconstrained jammed packings of nonspherical hard particles: ellipses and ellipsoids.

    Aleksandar Donev;Robert Connelly;Frank H. Stillinger;Salvatore Torquato

  • Straightening polygonal arcs and convexifying polygonal cycles

    R. Connelly;E.D. Demaine;G. Rote

  • A counterexample to the rigidity conjecture for polyhedra

    Robert Connelly

  • Mathematics and Tensegrity

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  • The Bellows conjecture.

    R. Connelly;I. Sabitov;A. Walz

  • A linear programming algorithm to test for jamming in hard-sphere packings

    Aleksandar Donev;Salvatore Torquato;Frank H. Stillinger;Robert Connelly

  • Sudoku, Gerechte Designs, Resolutions, Affine Space, Spreads, Reguli, and Hamming Codes

    R. A. Bailey;Peter J. Cameron;Robert Connelly

  • The rigidity of certain cabled frameworks and the second-order rigidity of arbitrarily triangulated convex surfaces

    Robert Connelly

  • Global Rigidity: The Effect of Coning

    R. Connelly;W. J. Whiteley

  • On monotone paths among obstacles with applications to planning assemblies

    E. M. Arkin;R. Connelly;J. S. Mitchell

  • Pushing disks apart - The Kneser-Poulsen conjecture in the plane

    Károly Bezdek;Robert Connelly

  • On Generic Global Rigidity.

    Robert Connelly

  • The Rigidity of Polyhedral Surfaces

    Robert Connelly

  • Higher-order rigidity--What is the proper definition?

    Robert Connelly;Herman Servatius

  • Blowing Up Polygonal Linkages

    Robert Connelly;Erik D. Demaine;Günter Rote

  • When is a symmetric pin-jointed framework isostatic?

    Robert Connelly;Patrick Fowler;Simon Guest;Bernd Schulze

  • Realizability of Graphs

    Maria Belk;Robert Connelly

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven J. Gortler
Steven J. Gortler Harvard University
Walter Whiteley
Walter Whiteley York University
Frank H. Stillinger
Frank H. Stillinger Princeton University
Salvatore Torquato
Salvatore Torquato Princeton University
Günter Rote
Günter Rote Freie Universität Berlin
Simon D. Guest
Simon D. Guest University of Cambridge
Joseph S. B. Mitchell
Joseph S. B. Mitchell Stony Brook University
Steven J. Ostro
Steven J. Ostro Jet Propulsion Lab
Paul Chaikin
Paul Chaikin New York University

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