2026 Scott Shenker: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Scientists	166	985	905	584	525	469	176861
Computer Science	165	20	19	11	10	458	170584

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Best Scientists 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
2019 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2017 - ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award For pioneering contributions to fair queueing in packet-switching networks, which had a major impact on modern practice in computer communication.
2016 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2012 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to Internet design and architecture.
2003 - ACM Fellow For contributions to Internet architecture and protocols.

Overview

Scott Shenker is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, with a strong focus on computer networks and communications.

The scientist's recent publications cover a range of topics within the domain of internet architecture and network communication. Notable papers include:

"Revitalizing the public internet by making it extensible" (2021), published in ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
"Extracting the Essential Simplicity of the Internet" (2023), published in Communications of the ACM
"Can We Save the Public Internet?" (2023), published in ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
"Blockaid: Data Access Policy Enforcement for Web Applications" (2022), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
"Rethinking SIGCOMM's Conferences" (2022), published in ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review

Frequent co-authors that have collaborated with Scott Shenker include:

Aurojit Panda (9 publications)
Ion Stoica (5 publications)
Sylvia Ratnasamy (4 publications)
Arvind Krishnamurthy (3 publications)
Wen Zhang (3 publications)

Scott Shenker's work appears regularly in several publication venues, with the most frequent venues being:

arXiv (Cornell University) with 12 publications
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review with 4 publications
Communications of the ACM with 1 publication
SSRN Electronic Journal with 1 publication

The scientist's main field of study is computer science, with significant contributions in the following subfields:

Computer Networks and Communications
Artificial Intelligence
Sociology and Political Science
Information Systems
General Health Professions

Scott Shenker's research covers several main topics, including:

Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
Caching and Content Delivery
Access Control and Trust
Security and Verification in Computing
Cloud Computing and Resource Management
Software-Defined Networks and 5G
Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques

Throughout their career, Scott Shenker has received several recognitions and distinctions, such as:

Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2019)
ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award (2017) for pioneering contributions to fair queueing in packet-switching networks
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016)
Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2012) for contributions to Internet design and architecture
ACM Fellow (2003) for contributions to Internet architecture and protocols

Best Publications

OpenFlow: enabling innovation in campus networks

Nick McKeown;Tom Anderson;Hari Balakrishnan;Guru Parulkar

12664
Citations
A scalable content-addressable network

Sylvia Ratnasamy;Paul Francis;Mark Handley;Richard Karp

10985
Citations
Spark: cluster computing with working sets

Matei Zaharia;Mosharaf Chowdhury;Michael J. Franklin;Scott Shenker

6741
Citations
Resilient distributed datasets: a fault-tolerant abstraction for in-memory cluster computing

Matei Zaharia;Mosharaf Chowdhury;Tathagata Das;Ankur Dave

5747
Citations
RSVP: a new resource reservation protocol

Lixia Zhang;S. Deering;D. Estrin;S. Shenker

5617
Citations
Integrated Services in the Internet Architecture: an Overview

R. Braden;D. Clark;S. Shenker

5430
Citations
Web caching and Zipf-like distributions: evidence and implications

L. Breslau;Pei Cao;Li Fan;G. Phillips

4683
Citations
MACAW: a media access protocol for wireless LAN's

Vaduvur Bharghavan;Alan Demers;Scott Shenker;Lixia Zhang

3327
Citations
Apache Spark: a unified engine for big data processing

Matei Zaharia;Reynold S. Xin;Patrick Wendell;Tathagata Das

2883
Citations
Search and replication in unstructured peer-to-peer networks

Qin Lv;Pei Cao;Edith Cohen;Kai Li

2781
Citations
Epidemic algorithms for replicated database maintenance

Alan Demers;Dan Greene;Carl Hauser;Wes Irish

2775
Citations
NOX: towards an operating system for networks

Natasha Gude;Teemu Koponen;Justin Pettit;Ben Pfaff

2479
Citations
A data-oriented (and beyond) network architecture

Teemu Koponen;Mohit Chawla;Byung-Gon Chun;Andrey Ermolinskiy

2363
Citations
Highly Resilient, Energy Efficient Multipath Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks

Deepak Ganesan;Ramesh Govindan;Scott Shenker;Deborah Estrin

2359
Citations
Mesos: a platform for fine-grained resource sharing in the data center

Benjamin Hindman;Andy Konwinski;Matei Zaharia;Ali Ghodsi

2342
Citations
Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet

B. Braden;D. Clark;J. Crowcroft;B. Davie

2263
Citations
Analysis and simulation of a fair queueing algorithm

A. Demers;S. Keshav;S. Shenker

2248
Citations
Onix: a distributed control platform for large-scale production networks

Teemu Koponen;Martin Casado;Natasha Gude;Jeremy Stribling

2006
Citations
Delay scheduling: a simple technique for achieving locality and fairness in cluster scheduling

Matei Zaharia;Dhruba Borthakur;Joydeep Sen Sarma;Khaled Elmeleegy

1990
Citations
Specification of Guaranteed Quality of Service

S. Shenker;C. Partridge;R. Guerin

1976
Citations
Epidemic algorithms for replicated database maintenance

Alan Demers;Dan Greene;Carl Houser;Wes Irish

337
Citations
A new approach to interdomain routing based on secure multi-party computation

Debayan Gupta;Aaron Segal;Aurojit Panda;Gil Segev

78
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ion Stoica University of California, Berkeley

Sylvia Ratnasamy University of California, Berkeley

Aurojit Panda New York University

Ramesh Govindan University of Southern California

Deborah Estrin Cornell University

Teemu Koponen DELL (United States)

Ali Ghodsi University of Waterloo

Matei Zaharia University of California, Berkeley

Martin Casado DELL (United States)

Joan Feigenbaum Yale University

External Links

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