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Stephen Boyd publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stephen Boyd sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 700 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Stephen Boyd D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stephen Boyd sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 59 scientists 31 D-Index: 114 scientists 32 D-Index: 129 scientists 33 D-Index: 189 scientists 34 D-Index: 200 scientists 35 D-Index: 262 scientists 36 D-Index: 311 scientists 37 D-Index: 312 scientists 38 D-Index: 350 scientists 39 D-Index: 385 scientists 40 D-Index: 348 scientists 41 D-Index: 362 scientists 42 D-Index: 426 scientists 43 D-Index: 380 scientists 44 D-Index: 310 scientists 45 D-Index: 341 scientists 46 D-Index: 301 scientists 47 D-Index: 306 scientists 48 D-Index: 271 scientists 49 D-Index: 246 scientists 50 D-Index: 210 scientists 51 D-Index: 253 scientists 52 D-Index: 213 scientists 53 D-Index: 221 scientists 54 D-Index: 195 scientists 55 D-Index: 186 scientists 56 D-Index: 170 scientists 57 D-Index: 167 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 144 scientists 60 D-Index: 152 scientists 61 D-Index: 141 scientists 62 D-Index: 138 scientists 63 D-Index: 131 scientists 64 D-Index: 118 scientists 65 D-Index: 114 scientists 66 D-Index: 119 scientists 67 D-Index: 95 scientists 68 D-Index: 87 scientists 69 D-Index: 77 scientists 70 D-Index: 89 scientists 71 D-Index: 69 scientists 72 D-Index: 54 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 55 scientists 75 D-Index: 54 scientists 76 D-Index: 49 scientists 77 D-Index: 53 scientists 78 D-Index: 46 scientists 79 D-Index: 28 scientists 80 D-Index: 39 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 24 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 36 scientists 85 D-Index: 18 scientists 86 D-Index: 25 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 26 scientists 89 D-Index: 27 scientists 90 D-Index: 23 scientists 91 D-Index: 15 scientists 92 D-Index: 12 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 15 scientists 95 D-Index: 10 scientists 96 D-Index: 13 scientists 97 D-Index: 13 scientists 98 D-Index: 9 scientists 99 D-Index: 7 scientists 100 D-Index: 7 scientists 101 D-Index: 8 scientists 102 D-Index: 7 scientists 103 D-Index: 7 scientists 104 D-Index: 9 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106 D-Index: 9 scientists 107+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 147 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
  • 2015 - SIAM Fellow For fundamental contributions to the development, teaching, and practice of optimization in engineering.
  • 2014 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to engineering design and analysis via convex optimization.
  • 2013 - IEEE Control Systems Award “For contributions to systems design and analysis via convex optimization.”
  • 1999 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the design and analysis of control systems using convex optimization based CAD tools.

Overview

Stephen Boyd is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within computer science and engineering. Over the course of their career, they have contributed extensively to areas such as artificial intelligence, management science and operations research, statistics and probability, computational theory and mathematics, and finance.

Their scholarly output includes more than 100 publications in computer science and over 70 in engineering. Among their work, frequent research topics include risk and portfolio optimization, sparse and compressive sensing techniques, statistical methods and inference, advanced optimization algorithms research, stochastic gradient optimization techniques, advanced bandit algorithms research, and optimization and search problems.

Their publication record features papers in well-known venues. Some of the most frequent outlets include arXiv (Cornell University) with 64 publications, Optimization and Engineering with 14, the SSRN Electronic Journal with 12, the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications with 5, and IEEE Access with 3 publications.

Notable recent papers by Stephen Boyd are:

  • OSQP: an operator splitting solver for quadratic programs (2020), published in Mathematical Programming Computation
  • Model-Based Deep Learning: On the Intersection of Deep Learning and Optimization (2022), published in IEEE Access
  • Globally Convergent Type-I Anderson Acceleration for Nonsmooth Fixed-Point Iterations (2020), published in SIAM Journal on Optimization
  • Sample Efficient Reinforcement Learning with REINFORCE (2021), published in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Anderson Accelerated Douglas--Rachford Splitting (2020), published in SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Stephen Boyd's most common co-authors include Shane Barratt, Mykel J. Kochenderfer, Eric Luxenberg, Akshay Agrawal, and Kasper Johansson.

Throughout their career, Stephen Boyd has received several professional distinctions including:

  • Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in 2016
  • SIAM Fellow in 2015, recognized for contributions to optimization in engineering
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering since 2014, for contributions to engineering design and analysis via convex optimization
  • IEEE Control Systems Award in 2013 for contributions to systems design and analysis using convex optimization
  • IEEE Fellow in 1999 for work on the design and analysis of control systems based on convex optimization CAD tools

Best Publications

  • Convex Optimization

    Stephen Boyd;Lieven Vandenberghe

  • Linear matrix inequalities in system and control theory

    S. Boyd

  • Distributed Optimization and Statistical Learning Via the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers

    Stephen Boyd;Neal Parikh;Eric Chu;Borja Peleato

  • Semidefinite programming

    Lieven Vandenberghe;Stephen Boyd

  • Enhancing Sparsity by Reweighted ℓ 1 Minimization

    Emmanuel J. Candès;Michael B. Wakin;Stephen P. Boyd

  • Proximal Algorithms

    Neal Parikh;Stephen Boyd

  • Fast linear iterations for distributed averaging

    Lin Xiao;Stephen P. Boyd

  • Graph Implementations for Nonsmooth Convex Programs

    Michael C. Grant;Stephen P. Boyd

  • Disciplined Convex Programming

    Michael Grant;Stephen Boyd;Yinyu Ye

  • Applications of second-order cone programming

    Miguel Sousa Lobo;Lieven Vandenberghe;Stephen Boyd;Hervé Lebret

  • An Interior-Point Method for Large-Scale $ll_1$ -Regularized Least Squares

    Seung-Jean Kim;K. Koh;M. Lustig;S. Boyd

  • Enhancing Sparsity by Reweighted L1 Minimization

    Emmanuel J. Candes;Michael B. Wakin;Stephen P. Boyd

  • Randomized gossip algorithms

    Stephen Boyd;Arpita Ghosh;Balaji Prabhakar;Devavrat Shah

  • Simple accurate expressions for planar spiral inductances

    S.S. Mohan;M. del Mar Hershenson;S.P. Boyd;T.H. Lee

  • Linear controller design: limits of performance

    Stephen P. Boyd;Craig H. Barratt

  • Fast Model Predictive Control Using Online Optimization

    Yang Wang;S. Boyd

  • A scheme for robust distributed sensor fusion based on average consensus

    Lin Xiao;Stephen Boyd;Sanjay Lall

  • Iterative water-filling for Gaussian vector multiple-access channels

    Wei Yu;Wonjong Rhee;S. Boyd;J.M. Cioffi

  • A tutorial on geometric programming

    Stephen Boyd;Seung-Jean Kim;Lieven Vandenberghe;Arash Hassibi

  • CVXPY: a python-embedded modeling language for convex optimization

    Steven Diamond;Stephen Boyd

  • Convex Optimization: Convex optimization problems

    Stephen Boyd;Lieven Vandenberghe

Frequent Co-Authors

Venkataramanan Balakrishnan
Venkataramanan Balakrishnan Purdue University West Lafayette
Lieven Vandenberghe
Lieven Vandenberghe University of California, Los Angeles
Lin Xiao
Lin Xiao Facebook (United States)
Eric Feron
Eric Feron King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Lei Xing
Lei Xing Stanford University
Andrea Goldsmith
Andrea Goldsmith Stony Brook University
Mikael Johansson
Mikael Johansson Royal Institute of Technology
Alberto Bemporad
Alberto Bemporad IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
Laurent El Ghaoui
Laurent El Ghaoui VinUniversity
Thomas H. Lee
Thomas H. Lee Stanford University

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