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Tom Minka 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 Tom Minka sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 117 publications — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Tom Minka 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 Tom Minka sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Tom Minka is affiliated with Microsoft in the United States and has contributed to the fields of Computer Science, with specific focus on Artificial Intelligence, Management Science and Operations Research, Statistics and Probability, and Developmental and Educational Psychology. Their research spans multiple interconnected areas within these disciplines.

Their work includes exploration of Optimal Experimental Design Methods, Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials, Behavioral and Psychological Studies, Topic Modeling, Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference, and Natural Language Processing Techniques. This diverse range of topics reflects a multidisciplinary approach within the broader domain of computer science and applied statistics.

Tom Minka has co-authored research with several frequent collaborators, including Prathiba Natesan Batley, Larry V. Hedges, Cheng Zhang, Sebastian Bauer, and Paul N. Bennett. These collaborations indicate active participation in various research projects spanning experimental design, causal inference, and language modeling.

Their recent publications cover significant topics such as experimental design and causality using modern computational methods. Among the recent papers are:

  • Investigating immediacy in multiple-phase-change single-case experimental designs using a Bayesian unknown change-points model, 2020, published in Behavior Research Methods
  • Understanding Causality with Large Language Models: Feasibility and Opportunities, 2023, published in arXiv (Cornell University)

Tom Minka's contributions have appeared in venues including Behavior Research Methods and arXiv (Cornell University), reflecting engagement both with established journals and preprint archives that support rapid dissemination of research.

Best Publications

  • Expectation propagation for approximate Bayesian inference

    Thomas P. Minka

  • A family of algorithms for approximate bayesian inference

    Thomas P. Minka;Rosalind Picard

  • Object categorization by learned universal visual dictionary

    J. Winn;A. Criminisi;T. Minka

  • The Bayesian image retrieval system, PicHunter: theory, implementation, and psychophysical experiments

    I.J. Cox;M.L. Miller;T.P. Minka;T.V. Papathomas

  • Estimating a Dirichlet Distribution

    Thomas P. Minka

  • TrueSkill™: A Bayesian Skill Rating System

    Ralf Herbrich;Tom Minka;Thore Graepel

  • Interactive learning with a “society of models”

    Thomas P. Minka;Rosalind W. Picard

  • Cosegmentation of Image Pairs by Histogram Matching - Incorporating a Global Constraint into MRFs

    C. Rother;T. Minka;A. Blake;V. Kolmogorov

  • Automatic Choice of Dimensionality for PCA

    Thomas P. Minka

  • A useful distribution for fitting discrete data: revival of the Conway-Maxwell-Poisson distribution

    Galit Shmueli;Thomas P. Minka;Joseph B. Kadane;Sharad Borle

  • Divergence measures and message passing

    Thomas Minka

  • You are facing the Mona Lisa: spot localization using PHY layer information

    Souvik Sen;Božidar Radunovic;Romit Roy Choudhury;Tom Minka

  • Novelty and redundancy detection in adaptive filtering

    Yi Zhang;Jamie Callan;Thomas Minka

  • Expectation-propagation for the generative aspect model

    Thomas Minka;John Lafferty

  • Bayesian color constancy revisited

    P.V. Gehler;C. Rother;A. Blake;T. Minka

  • Principled Hybrids of Generative and Discriminative Models

    J.A. Lasserre;C.M. Bishop;T.P. Minka

  • SoftRank: optimizing non-smooth rank metrics

    Michael Taylor;John Guiver;Stephen Robertson;Tom Minka

  • Interactive Learning Using a “Society of Models”

    Tom Minka;Rosalind W. Picard

  • Vision texture for annotation

    R. W. Picard;T. P. Minka

  • A comparison of numerical optimizers for logistic regression

    Thomas P. Minka

  • Cosegmentation of Image Pairs by Histogram Matching - Incorporating a Global Constraint into MRFs.

    C Rother;TP Minka;A Blake;Kolmogorov

  • Gates

    Tom Minka;John Winn

Frequent Co-Authors

Thore Graepel
Thore Graepel University College London
John Winn
John Winn Microsoft (United States)
Joseph B. Kadane
Joseph B. Kadane Carnegie Mellon University
Carsten Rother
Carsten Rother Heidelberg University
Ralf Herbrich
Ralf Herbrich Hasso Plattner Institute
Ingemar J. Cox
Ingemar J. Cox University College London
Romit Roy Choudhury
Romit Roy Choudhury University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Andrew Blake
Andrew Blake University of Cambridge
Matthew L. Miller
Matthew L. Miller NEC (United States)

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