2026 Thomas Dean: 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	45	7023	6819	3078	2962	137	14191

Research.com Recognitions

2009 - ACM Fellow For the development of dynamic Bayes networks and anytime algorithms.
1994 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For contributions to the fields of automated planning, temporal reasoning, and robotics.

Overview

Thomas Dean is affiliated with Google in the United States. Their primary area of research lies within the field of Medicine, with specific focus on Immunology and Allergy, Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Surgery, and Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

The topics covered by Thomas Dean's research include:

Asthma and respiratory diseases
Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research
Eosinophilic Esophagitis
Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies

The scientist has contributed to a range of peer-reviewed publications over recent years. Notable papers include:

Different Measures of Diet Diversity During Infancy and the Association with Childhood Food Allergy in a UK Birth Cohort Study, 2020, published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice
Dietary diversity during infancy and the association with childhood food allergen sensitization, 2021, Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
Food Allergy Prevalence in Two Population-Based UK Cohorts Born 12 Years Apart, 2025, Clinical & Experimental Allergy
Introduction time of highly allergenic foods to the infant diet in a UK cohort and association with a family history of allergy, 2025, European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Temporal changes in maternal dietary intake during pregnancy and lactation between and within two pregnancy cohorts assembled in the United Kingdom, 2020, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Thomas Dean has frequently published in venues such as:

British Journal of Surgery
The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice
Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
Clinical & Experimental Allergy
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including Carina Venter, Kate Maslin, Syed Hasan Arshad, Arabella Baker, and Natalie Bonsu.

Among accolades, Thomas Dean was named ACM Fellow in 2009 for work on dynamic Bayes networks and anytime algorithms. Additionally, they were recognized as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 1994, acknowledged for contributions to automated planning, temporal reasoning, and robotics.

Best Publications

Decision-theoretic planning: structural assumptions and computational leverage

Craig Boutilier;Thomas Dean;Steve Hanks

1562
Citations
A model for reasoning about persistence and causation

Thomas Dean;Keiji Kanazawa

1457
Citations
An analysis of time-dependent planning

Thomas Dean;Mark Boddy

1365
Citations
Planning and Control

Thomas L. Dean;Michael P. Wellman

787
Citations
Temporal data base management

Thomas L. Dean;Drew McDermott

572
Citations
On the complexity of solving Markov decision problems

Michael L. Littman;Thomas L. Dean;Leslie Pack Kaelbling

559
Citations
Solving time-dependent planning problems

Mark Boddy;Thomas Dean

521
Citations
Bounded-parameter Markov decision process

Robert Givan;Sonia Leach;Thomas Dean

437
Citations
Fast, Accurate Detection of 100,000 Object Classes on a Single Machine

Thomas Dean;Mark A. Ruzon;Mark Segal;Jonathon Shlens

426
Citations
Equivalence notions and model minimization in Markov decision processes

Robert Givan;Thomas Dean;Matthew Greig

416
Citations
Deliberation scheduling for problem solving in time-constrained environments

Mark Boddy;Thomas L. Dean

373
Citations
Planning Under Time Constraints in Stochastic Domains

Thomas Dean;Leslie Pack Kaelbling;Jak Kirman;Ann Nicholson

342
Citations
Hierarchical solution of Markov decision processes using macro-actions

Milos Hauskrecht;Nicolas Meuleau;Leslie Pack Kaelbling;Thomas Dean

326
Citations
Probabilistic temporal reasoning

Thomas Dean;Keiji Kanazawa

314
Citations
Planning with deadlines in stochastic domains

Thomas Dean;Leslie Pack Kaelbling;Jak Kirman;Ann Nicholson

302
Citations
Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Practice

Thomas Dean;James Allen;Yiannis Aloimonos

294
Citations
Model minimization in Markov decision processes

Thomas Dean;Robert Givan

288
Citations
Solving very large weakly coupled Markov decision processes

Nicolas Meuleau;Milos Hauskrecht;Kee-Eung Kim;Leonid Peshkin

274
Citations
Neural networks and neuroscience-inspired computer vision.

David Daniel Cox;Thomas Dean

243
Citations
Contextual LSTM (CLSTM) models for Large scale NLP tasks.

Shalini Ghosh;Oriol Vinyals;Brian Strope;Scott Roy

239
Citations
Decomposition Techniques for Planning in Stochastic Domains

Thomas Dean;Shieu-Hong Lin

229
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Leslie Pack Kaelbling MIT

Craig Boutilier Google (United States)

Oriol Vinyals DeepMind (United Kingdom)

Jonathon Shlens Google (United States)

Larry P. Heck Georgia Institute of Technology

Greg Corrado Google (United States)

Michael L. Littman Brown University

Jeffrey Scott Vitter University of Mississippi

Gary F. Marcus New York University

Loren M. Frank University of California, San Francisco

External Links

Personal website of Thomas Dean Google Scholar page

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