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Sameh Elnikety 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 Sameh Elnikety sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 220 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sameh Elnikety 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 Sameh Elnikety sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Sameh Elnikety is a researcher primarily affiliated with Microsoft in the United States. Their work is mainly situated within the field of Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Information Systems, Computer Networks and Communications, Hardware and Architecture, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The core areas of research undertaken by Elnikety center around Cloud Computing and Resource Management, IoT and Edge/Fog Computing, Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques, Software System Performance and Reliability, Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques, Advanced Neural Network Applications, and Data Management and Algorithms.

Elnikety has contributed to a range of scholarly publications, with recent papers encompassing diverse topics and venues. Selected publications include:

  • WISEFUSE, 2022, Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems
  • WISEFUSE, 2022, ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
  • Analytically-Driven Resource Management for Cloud-Native Microservices, 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Parallel Discovery of Trajectory Companion Pattern and System Evaluation, 2020, Journal of Information Processing
  • Junctiond: Extending FaaS Runtimes with Kernel-Bypass, 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)

The frequent publication venues where Elnikety's work appears include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems
  • ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
  • Journal of Information Processing

Collaboration is evident in Elnikety's research, with frequent co-authors being:

  • Ashraf Mahgoub
  • Edgardo Barsallo Yi
  • Karthick Shankar
  • Eshaan Minocha
  • Saurabh Bagchi

The research contributions reflect a multi-disciplinary approach involving cloud infrastructure optimization, microservices resource management, and performance evaluation of software systems, integrating insights from networking, hardware acceleration, and applied artificial intelligence methods.

Best Publications

  • Migrating server storage to SSDs: analysis of tradeoffs

    Dushyanth Narayanan;Eno Thereska;Austin Donnelly;Sameh Elnikety

  • A method for transparent admission control and request scheduling in e-commerce web sites

    Sameh Elnikety;Erich Nahum;John Tracey;Willy Zwaenepoel

  • A cooperative internet backup scheme

    Mark Lillibridge;Sameh Elnikety;Andrew Birrell;Mike Burrows

  • Database replication using generalized snapshot isolation

    S. Elnikety;F. Pedone;W. Zwaenepoel

  • Performance comparison of middleware architectures for generating dynamic web content

    Emmanuel Cecchet;Anupam Chanda;Sameh Elnikety;Julie Marguerite

  • Graph query processing using plurality of engines

    Sameh Elnikety;Yuxiong He;Sherif Sakr

  • Orbe: scalable causal consistency using dependency matrices and physical clocks

    Jiaqing Du;Sameh Elnikety;Amitabha Roy;Willy Zwaenepoel

  • Everest: scaling down peak loads through I/O off-loading

    Dushyanth Narayanan;Austin Donnelly;Eno Thereska;Sameh Elnikety

  • Few-to-Many: Incremental Parallelism for Reducing Tail Latency in Interactive Services

    E. Haque;Yong hun Eom;Yuxiong He;Sameh Elnikety

  • Faster and Cheaper Serverless Computing on Harvested Resources

    Yanqi Zhang;Íñigo Goiri;Gohar Irfan Chaudhry;Rodrigo Fonseca

  • Predictive parallelization: taming tail latencies in web search

    Myeongjae Jeon;Saehoon Kim;Seung-won Hwang;Yuxiong He

  • Tashkent+: memory-aware load balancing and update filtering in replicated databases

    Sameh Elnikety;Steven Dropsho;Willy Zwaenepoel

  • Tashkent: uniting durability with transaction ordering for high-performance scalable database replication

    Sameh Elnikety;Steven Dropsho;Fernando Pedone

  • Swayam: distributed autoscaling to meet SLAs of machine learning inference services with resource efficiency

    Arpan Gujarati;Sameh Elnikety;Yuxiong He;Kathryn S. McKinley

  • Zeta: scheduling interactive services with partial execution

    Yuxiong He;Sameh Elnikety;James Larus;Chenyu Yan

  • Clock-SI: Snapshot Isolation for Partitioned Data Stores Using Loosely Synchronized Clocks

    Jiaqing Du;Sameh Elnikety;Willy Zwaenepoel

  • Storage Systems Using Write Off-Loading

    Dushyanth Narayanan;Austin Donnelly;Anthony Rowstron;Sameh Elnikety

  • PerfIso: performance isolation for commercial latency-sensitive services

    Călin Iorgulescu;Reza Azimi;Youngjin Kwon;Sameh Elnikety

  • Mercury: A memory-constrained spatio-temporal real-time search on microblogs

    Amr Magdy;Mohamed F. Mokbel;Sameh Elnikety;Suman Nath

  • G-SPARQL: a hybrid engine for querying large attributed graphs

    Sherif Sakr;Sameh Elnikety;Yuxiong He

  • Specification and Implementation of Dynamic Web Site Benchmarks

    C. Amza;E. Cecchet;A. Chanda;Alan L. Cox

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuxiong He
Yuxiong He Microsoft (United States)
Willy Zwaenepoel
Willy Zwaenepoel University of Sydney
Alan L. Cox
Alan L. Cox Rice University
Kathryn S. McKinley
Kathryn S. McKinley Google (United States)
Ricardo Bianchini
Ricardo Bianchini Microsoft (United States)
Shaolei Ren
Shaolei Ren University of California, Riverside
Mohamed F. Mokbel
Mohamed F. Mokbel University of Minnesota
Suman Nath
Suman Nath Microsoft (United States)
Scott Rixner
Scott Rixner Rice University
Sherif Sakr
Sherif Sakr University of Tartu

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