2026 Tao Yang: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	35	11529	11199	4736	4532	149	6939

Overview

Tao Yang is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on computer science, with a significant emphasis on artificial intelligence and related subfields.

Their scholarly work encompasses a variety of subfields including:

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Information Systems
Epidemiology
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine

The main topics Tao Yang has contributed to cover:

Topic Modeling
Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Text and Document Classification Technologies
Information Retrieval and Search Behavior
Algorithms and Data Compression
Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment

Tao Yang has published research in multiple venues, including:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Selected recent publications include:

"An explainable machine learning algorithm for risk factor analysis of in-hospital mortality in sepsis survivors with ICU readmission" (2021), Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
"Multiplex Graph Neural Network for Extractive Text Summarization" (2021), Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
"Lightweight Composite Re-Ranking for Efficient Keyword Search with BERT" (2022), Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
"Compact Token Representations with Contextual Quantization for Efficient Document Re-ranking" (2022), Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
"Composite Re-Ranking for Efficient Document Search with BERT" (2021), arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent collaborators in their research work include:

Yifan Qiao
Yingrui Yang
Jinjin Shao
Shanxiu He
Parker Carlson

Best Publications

DSC: scheduling parallel tasks on an unbounded number of processors

Tao Yang;A. Gerasoulis

988
Citations
A Comparison of Clustering Heuristics for Scheduling Directed Acyclic Graphs on Multiprocessors

Apostolos Gerasoulis;Tao Yang

634
Citations
The Panasas ActiveScale Storage Cluster: Delivering Scalable High Bandwidth Storage

Hong Tang;A. Gulbeden;Jingyu Zhou;W. Strathearn

514
Citations
On the granularity and clustering of directed acyclic task graphs

A. Gerasoulis;T. Yang

430
Citations
PYRROS: static task scheduling and code generation for message passing multiprocessors

Tao Yang;Apostolos Gerasoulis

294
Citations
SWEB: towards a scalable World Wide Web server on multicomputers

D. Andresen;Tao Yang;V. Holmedahl;O.H. Ibarra

244
Citations
List scheduling with and without communication delays

Tao Yang;Apostolos Gerasoulis

230
Citations
Integrated resource management for cluster-based internet services

Kai Shen;Hong Tang;Tao Yang;Lingkun Chu

229
Citations
Similarity detection and clustering of images

Antonino Gulli;Antonio Savona;Tao Yang;Xin Liu

225
Citations
Demand-driven service differentiation in cluster-based network servers

Huican Zhu;Hong Tang;Tao Yang

220
Citations
Optimizing threaded MPI execution on SMP clusters

Hong Tang;Tao Yang

133
Citations
A fast static scheduling algorithm for DAGs on an unbounded number of processors

Tao Yang;Apostolos Gerasoulis

130
Citations
Topology-centric resource management for large scale service clusters

Lingkun Chu;Tao Yang;Jingyu Zhou

129
Citations
Cooperative caching of dynamic content on a distributed Web server

V. Holmedahl;B. Smith;Tao Yang

126
Citations
Class-based cache management for dynamic Web content

H. Zhu;T. Yang

124
Citations
Systems and methods for aggregating search results

Tao Yang;Wei Wang

106
Citations
Clustering task graphs for message passing architectures

Apostolos Gerasoulis;Sesh Venugopal;Tao Yang

105
Citations
Exploiting result equivalence in caching dynamic web content

Ben Smith;Anurag Acharya;Tao Yang;Huican Zhu

98
Citations
Relevancy-based database retrieval and display techniques

Tao Yang;Wei Wang;Apostolos Gerasoulis

91
Citations
Toward a Scalable Distributed WWW Server on Workstation Clusters

Daniel Andresen;Tao Yang;Oscar H. Ibarra

88
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kai Shen University of Rochester

Oscar H. Ibarra University of California, Santa Barbara

Xin Jin South China University of Technology

Wei Zhang University of New South Wales

Terence R. Smith University of California, Santa Barbara

Frederic T. Chong University of Chicago

Ricardo Bianchini Microsoft (United States)

Antonio Plaza University of Extremadura

Jon Atli Benediktsson University of Iceland

Yuan-Fang Wang University of California, Santa Barbara

External Links

Personal website of Tao Yang Google Scholar page

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