2026 Tolga Soyata: 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	38	10241	9954	4298	4122	93	6093

Research.com Recognitions

2016 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Tolga Soyata is affiliated with the University at Albany, State University of New York in the United States. Their research spans several fields within computer science and neuroscience, focusing on topics related to artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience, and applications of computer science in various domains.

The main fields of study associated with Soyata are:

Computer Science
Neuroscience

Within these fields, their work has addressed subfields such as:

Artificial Intelligence
Cognitive Neuroscience
Computer Science Applications
Transportation
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Tolga Soyata's research topics often involve:

Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
Neural dynamics and brain function
Advanced Neural Network Applications

The scientist has contributed to multiple publication venues, including:

Sensors
IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
arXiv (Cornell University)

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Soyata include:

"Federated Learning in Smart City Sensing: Challenges and Opportunities," 2020, Sensors
"A Voting-Enhanced Dynamic-Window-Length Classifier for SSVEP-Based BCIs," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
"GACER: Granularity-Aware ConcurrEncy Regulation for Multi-Tenant Deep Learning," 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)

Collaborators frequently working with Soyata include:

Ji Chu Jiang
Burak Kantarcı
Sema Oktuğ
Hadi Habibzadeh
James J. S. Norton

In 2016, Soyata was recognized as an ACM Senior Member.

Best Publications

Health Monitoring and Management Using Internet-of-Things (IoT) Sensing with Cloud-Based Processing: Opportunities and Challenges

Moeen Hassanalieragh;Alex Page;Tolga Soyata;Gaurav Sharma

931
Citations
Cloud-Vision: Real-time face recognition using a mobile-cloudlet-cloud acceleration architecture

Tolga Soyata;Rajani Muraleedharan;Colin Funai;Minseok Kwon

521
Citations
A Survey of Healthcare Internet of Things (HIoT): A Clinical Perspective

Hadi Habibzadeh;Karthik Dinesh;Omid Rajabi Shishvan;Andrew Boggio-Dandry

373
Citations
A survey on cybersecurity, data privacy, and policy issues in cyber-physical system deployments in smart cities

Hadi Habibzadeh;Brian H. Nussbaum;Fazel Anjomshoa;Burak Kantarci

304
Citations
Federated Learning in Smart City Sensing: Challenges and Opportunities.

JiChu Jiang;Burak Kantarci;Sema F. Oktug;Tolga Soyata

280
Citations
RF Energy Harvesting for Embedded Systems: A Survey of Tradeoffs and Methodology

Tolga Soyata;Lucian Copeland;Wendi Heinzelman

272
Citations
Resistive computation: avoiding the power wall with low-leakage, STT-MRAM based computing

Xiaochen Guo;Engin Ipek;Tolga Soyata

245
Citations
Towards Emotionally Aware AI Smart Classroom: Current Issues and Directions for Engineering and Education

Yelin Kim;Tolga Soyata;Reza Feyzi Behnagh

219
Citations
Quantifying User Reputation Scores, Data Trustworthiness, and User Incentives in Mobile Crowd-Sensing

Maryam Pouryazdan;Burak Kantarci;Tolga Soyata;Luca Foschini

163
Citations
Emerging security mechanisms for medical cyber physical systems

Ovunc Kocabas;Tolga Soyata;Mehmet K. Aktas

158
Citations
Anchor-Assisted and Vote-Based Trustworthiness Assurance in Smart City Crowdsensing

Maryam Pouryazdan;Burak Kantarci;Tolga Soyata;Houbing Song

139
Citations
Sensing, communication and security planes: A new challenge for a smart city system design

Hadi Habibzadeh;Tolga Soyata;Burak Kantarci;Azzedine Boukerche

131
Citations
Large-Scale Distributed Dedicated- and Non-Dedicated Smart City Sensing Systems

Hadi Habibzadeh;Zhou Qin;Tolga Soyata;Burak Kantarci

121
Citations
Energy awareness for supercapacitors using Kalman filter state-of-charge tracking

Andrew Nadeau;Moeen Hassanalieragh;Gaurav Sharma;Tolga Soyata

101
Citations
COMBAT: mobile-Cloud-based cOmpute/coMmunications infrastructure for BATtlefield applications

Tolga Soyata;Rajani Muraleedharan;Jonathan Langdon;Colin Funai

98
Citations
Cloud‐Based Privacy‐Preserving Remote ECG Monitoring and Surveillance

B S Alex Page;Ovunc Kocabas;Tolga Soyata;Mehmet Aktas

84
Citations
Accelerating Mobile-Cloud Computing: A Survey

Tolga Soyata;He Ba;Wendi Heinzelman;Minseok Kwon

82
Citations
Hybrid Solar-Wind Energy Harvesting for Embedded Applications: Supercapacitor-Based System Architectures and Design Tradeoffs

Mohamadhadi Habibzadeh;Moeen Hassanalieragh;Akihiro Ishikawa;Tolga Soyata

82
Citations
Intelligent Gaming for Mobile Crowd-Sensing Participants to Acquire Trustworthy Big Data in the Internet of Things

Maryam Pouryazdan;Claudio Fiandrino;Burak Kantarci;Tolga Soyata

79
Citations
Smart city in crisis: Technology and policy concerns

Tolga Soyata;Hadi Habibzadeh;Chinwe Ekenna;Brian Nussbaum

72
Citations
Assessment of cloud-based health monitoring using Homomorphic Encryption

Ovunc Kocabas;Tolga Soyata;Jean-Philippe Couderc;Mehmet Aktas

71
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Burak Kantarci University of Ottawa

Gaurav Sharma University of Rochester

Wendi Heinzelman University of Rochester

Eby G. Friedman University of Rochester

Jiye Shi UCB Pharma (Belgium)

Xiuqing Guo Lundquist Institute

Azzedine Boukerche University of Ottawa

Kent D. Taylor David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Pascal Bouvry University of Luxembourg

Houbing Song University of Maryland, Baltimore County

External Links

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