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D-Index
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5532
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Sampath Kannan 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 Sampath Kannan sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 174 publications — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sampath Kannan 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 Sampath Kannan sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 50 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% 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

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2013 - ACM Fellow For contributions to algorithmic approaches to program reliability, bioinformatics, and for service to the computer science research community.

Overview

Sampath Kannan is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research contributions span several domains in computer science, with notable focus areas including economics and econometrics, management science and operations research, computational theory and mathematics, molecular biology, and statistics and probability.

Their work covers multiple topics, including:

  • Game Theory and Voting Systems
  • Auction Theory and Applications
  • Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs
  • Advanced Bandit Algorithms Research
  • Topological and Geometric Data Analysis
  • Sports Analytics and Performance
  • Optimization and Search Problems

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Sampath Kannan are:

  • "Best vs. All: Equity and Accuracy of Standardized Test Score Reporting," 2022, published at the 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
  • "Sublinear Algorithms and Lower Bounds for Metric TSP Cost Estimation," 2020, published on arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Best vs. All: Equity and Accuracy of Standardized Test Score Reporting," 2021, published on arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Algorithmic Collusion Without Threats," 2024, published on arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Pipeline Interventions," 2022, published in Mathematics of Operations Research

Sampath Kannan frequently collaborates with other researchers in their field. Their most frequent co-authors include:

  • Aaron Roth
  • Eshwar Ram Arunachaleswaran
  • Juba Ziani
  • Mingzi Niu
  • Rakesh Vohra

The primary venues for their publications are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
  • Mathematics of Operations Research
  • Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
  • Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)

Sampath Kannan has been recognized with awards such as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2019 and ACM Fellow in 2013. The ACM Fellow designation was awarded for contributions to algorithmic approaches to program reliability, bioinformatics, and service to the computer science research community.

Best Publications

  • Secure data interchange

    Frederick S. M. Herz;Walter Paul Labys;David C. Parkes;Sampath Kannan

  • Designing programs that check their work

    Manuel Blum;Sampath Kannan

  • On graph problems in a semi-streaming model

    Joan Feigenbaum;Sampath Kannan;Andrew McGregor;Siddharth Suri

  • Checking the correctness of memories

    M. Blum;W. Evans;P. Gemmell;S. Kannan

  • Checking the correctness of memories

    M. Blum;W. Evans;P. Gemmell;S. Kannan

  • Designing programs that check their work

    M. Blum;S. Kanna

  • An Approximate L 1 -Difference Algorithm for Massive Data Streams

    Joan Feigenbaum;Sampath Kannan;Martin J. Strauss;Mahesh Viswanathan

  • Implicit representation of graphs

    Sampath Kannan;Moni Naor;Steven Rudich

  • Java-MaC: A Run-Time Assurance Approach for Java Programs

    Moonzoo Kim;Mahesh Viswanathan;Sampath Kannan;Insup Lee

  • Java-MaC: A Run-time Assurance Tool for Java Programs

    Moonjoo Kim;Sampath Kannan;Insup Lee;Oleg Sokolsky

  • Randomized pursuit-evasion in a polygonal environment

    V. Isler;S. Kannan;S. Khanna

  • An approximate L/sup 1/-difference algorithm for massive data streams

    J. Feigenbaum;S. Kannan;M. Strauss;M. Viswanathan

  • Oracles and Queries That Are Sufficient for Exact Learning

    Nader H. Bshouty;Richard Cleve;Ricard Gavaldà;Sampath Kannan

  • A robust model for finding optimal evolutionary trees

    Martin Farach;Sampath Kannan;Tandy J. Warnow

  • Runtime Assurance Based On Formal Specifications

    Insup Lee;Sampath Kannan;Moonjoo Kim;Oleg Sokolsky

  • The relationship between public key encryption and oblivious transfer

    Y. Gertner;S. Kannan;T. Malkin;O. Reingold

  • Formally specified monitoring of temporal properties

    Moonjoo Kim;M. Viswanathan;H. Ben-Abdallah;S. Kannan

  • Communicating Hierarchical State Machines

    Rajeev Alur;Sampath Kannan;Mihalis Yannakakis

  • Graph Distances in the Data-Stream Model

    Joan Feigenbaum;Sampath Kannan;Andrew McGregor;Siddharth Suri

  • Reconstructing strings from random traces

    Tuǧkan Batu;Sampath Kannan;Sanjeev Khanna;Andrew McGregor

  • Spot-checkers

    Funda Ergün;Sampath Kannan;S. Ravi Kumar;Ronitt Rubinfeld

Frequent Co-Authors

Insup Lee
Insup Lee University of Pennsylvania
Mahesh Viswanathan
Mahesh Viswanathan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Oleg Sokolsky
Oleg Sokolsky University of Pennsylvania
Tandy Warnow
Tandy Warnow University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sanjeev Khanna
Sanjeev Khanna University of Pennsylvania
Aaron Roth
Aaron Roth University of Pennsylvania
Joan Feigenbaum
Joan Feigenbaum Yale University
Volkan Isler
Volkan Isler University of Minnesota
Andrew McGregor
Andrew McGregor University of Massachusetts Amherst
Martin Farach
Martin Farach New York University

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