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Seth Pettie 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 Seth Pettie sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 184 publications — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Seth Pettie 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 Seth Pettie sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Seth Pettie is a researcher affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their academic contributions primarily lie within the field of Computer Science, encompassing 78 publications.

Their work covers several subfields, including:

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Signal Processing

Main research topics addressed by Pettie are diverse, featuring:

  • Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs
  • Distributed systems and fault tolerance
  • Optimization and Search Problems
  • Cryptography and Data Security
  • Interconnection Networks and Systems
  • Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  • Advanced Graph Theory Research

Recent notable papers authored by Pettie include:

  • "Near-optimal Distributed Triangle Enumeration via Expander Decompositions," 2021, Journal of the ACM
  • "Distributed (Δ+1)-Coloring via Ultrafast Graph Shattering," 2020, SIAM Journal on Computing
  • "Wake up and join me! An energy-efficient algorithm for maximal matching in radio networks," 2022, Distributed Computing
  • "Lower Bounds on Sparse Spanners, Emulators, and Diameter-Reducing Shortcuts," 2021, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
  • "Connectivity Oracles for Graphs Subject to Vertex Failures," 2020, SIAM Journal on Computing

Pettie frequently publishes in several venues with multiple contributions, most notably:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of the ACM
  • SIAM Journal on Computing
  • Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • Distributed Computing

Collaborations form a significant part of their research activity. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Shang-En Huang
  • Gábor Tardos
  • Thatchaphol Saranurak
  • Varsha Dani
  • Thomas P. Hayes

Best Publications

  • An optimal minimum spanning tree algorithm

    Seth Pettie;Vijaya Ramachandran

  • Linear-Time Approximation for Maximum Weight Matching

    Ran Duan;Seth Pettie

  • A new approach to all-pairs shortest paths on real-weighted graphs

    Seth Pettie

  • The Locality of Distributed Symmetry Breaking

    Leonid Barenboim;Michael Elkin;Seth Pettie;Johannes Schneider

  • Additive spanners and (α, β)-spanners

    Surender Baswana;Telikepalli Kavitha;Kurt Mehlhorn;Seth Pettie

  • Higher lower bounds from the 3SUM conjecture

    Tsvi Kopelowitz;Seth Pettie;Ely Porat

  • A simpler linear time 2/3 - ε approximation for maximum weight matching

    Seth Pettie;Peter Sanders

  • Low distortion spanners

    Seth Pettie

  • Improved distributed approximate matching

    Zvi Lotker;Boaz Patt-Shamir;Seth Pettie

  • New constructions of (α, β)-spanners and purely additive spanners

    Surender Baswana;Telikepalli Kavitha;Kurt Mehlhorn;Seth Pettie

  • The Locality of Distributed Symmetry Breaking

    Leonid Barenboim;Michael Elkin;Seth Pettie;Johannes Schneider

  • Dual-failure distance and connectivity oracles

    Ran Duan;Seth Pettie

  • A Randomized Time-Work Optimal Parallel Algorithm for Finding a Minimum Spanning Forest

    Seth Pettie;Vijaya Ramachandran

  • Distributed algorithms for the Lovász local lemma and graph coloring

    Kai-Min Chung;Seth Pettie;Hsin-Hao Su

  • A Shortest Path Algorithm for Real-Weighted Undirected Graphs

    Seth Pettie;Vijaya Ramachandran

  • Fast algorithms for (max, min)-matrix multiplication and bottleneck shortest paths

    Ran Duan;Seth Pettie

  • An Exponential Separation between Randomized and Deterministic Complexity in the LOCAL Model

    Yi-Jun Chang;Tsvi Kopelowitz;Seth Pettie

  • Distributed algorithms for ultrasparse spanners and linear size skeletons

    Seth Pettie

  • A Hierarchy of Lower Bounds for Sublinear Additive Spanners

    Amir Abboud;Greg Bodwin;Seth Pettie

  • An optimal distributed (Δ+1)-coloring algorithm?

    Yi-Jun Chang;Wenzheng Li;Seth Pettie

  • Improved Distributed Approximate Matching

    Zvi Lotker;Boaz Patt-Shamir;Seth Pettie

  • Threesomes, Degenerates, and Love Triangles

    Allan Grønlund;Seth Pettie

Frequent Co-Authors

Vijaya Ramachandran
Vijaya Ramachandran The University of Texas at Austin
Ely Porat
Ely Porat Bar-Ilan University
Michael Elkin
Michael Elkin Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Michael A. Bender
Michael A. Bender Stony Brook University
Kurt Mehlhorn
Kurt Mehlhorn Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Amihood Amir
Amihood Amir Bar-Ilan University
Harold N. Gabow
Harold N. Gabow University of Colorado Boulder
Mikkel Thorup
Mikkel Thorup University of Copenhagen
Uri Zwick
Uri Zwick Tel Aviv University
Boaz Patt-Shamir
Boaz Patt-Shamir Tel Aviv University

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