2026 Torsten Suel: 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	48	6141	5964	2761	2661	156	10195

Overview

Torsten Suel is affiliated with New York University in the United States and has contributed to the field of computer science with a focus on areas such as artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, computer networks and communications, and signal processing.

Their research covers various main topics including:

Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques
Text and Document Classification Technologies
Data Management and Algorithms
Advanced Database Systems and Queries
Algorithms and Data Compression
Graph Theory and Algorithms

Torsten Suel has published extensively, with frequent appearances in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)
ACM SIGIR Forum

Selected recent papers include:

"Faster Learned Sparse Retrieval with Guided Traversal" (2022), Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
"Learning Passage Impacts for Inverted Indexes" (2021), arXiv (Cornell University)
"Using Conjunctions for Faster Disjunctive Top-k Queries" (2022), Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
"Optimizing Iterative Algorithms for Social Network Sharding" (2021), 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)
"Faster Learned Sparse Retrieval with Guided Traversal" (2022), arXiv (Cornell University)

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their work. Frequent co-authors include:

Antonio Mallia
Nicola Tonellotto
Joel Mackenzie
Michał Siedlaczek
Zishi Deng

Best Publications

Optimal Histograms with Quality Guarantees

H. V. Jagadish;Nick Koudas;S. Muthukrishnan;Viswanath Poosala

595
Citations
Design and implementation of a high-performance distributed Web crawler

V. Shkapenyuk;T. Suel

579
Citations
BSPlib: The BSP programming library

Jonathan M. D. Hill;Bill McColl;Dan C. Stefanescu;Dan C. Stefanescu;Mark W. Goudreau

542
Citations
Efficient query processing in geographic web search engines

Yen-Yu Chen;Torsten Suel;Alexander Markowetz

462
Citations
On rectangular partitionings in two dimensions : Algorithms, complexity, and applications

S. Muthukrishnan;V. Poosala;T. Suel

448
Citations
The Perron-Frobenius theorem: some of its applications

S.U. Pillai;T. Suel;Seunghun Cha

378
Citations
Inverted index compression and query processing with optimized document ordering

Hao Yan;Shuai Ding;Torsten Suel

374
Citations
Performance of compressed inverted list caching in search engines

Jiangong Zhang;Xiaohui Long;Torsten Suel

332
Citations
Scalable Sweeping-Based Spatial Join

Lars Arge;Octavian Procopiuc;Sridhar Ramaswamy;Torsten Suel

327
Citations
An efficient distributed algorithm for constructing small dominating sets

Lujun Jia;Rajmohan Rajaraman;Torsten Suel

293
Citations
Faster top-k document retrieval using block-max indexes

Shuai Ding;Torsten Suel

271
Citations
ODISSEA: A peer-to-peer architecture for scalable web search and information retrieval

Torsten Suel;Chandan Mathur;Jo-wen Wu;Jiangong Zhang

246
Citations
Three-level caching for efficient query processing in large Web search engines

Xiaohui Long;Torsten Suel

238
Citations
Analysis of geographic queries in a search engine log

Qingqing Gan;Josh Attenberg;Alexander Markowetz;Torsten Suel

190
Citations
Improved techniques for result caching in web search engines

Qingqing Gan;Torsten Suel

190
Citations
Compressing the graph structure of the Web

T. Suel;Jun Yuan

182
Citations
Optimized query execution in large search engines with global page ordering

Xiaohui Long;Torsten Suel

174
Citations
Text vs. space: efficient geo-search query processing

Maria Christoforaki;Jinru He;Constantinos Dimopoulos;Alexander Markowetz

168
Citations
Optimal peer selection for P2P downloading and streaming

M. Adler;R. Kumar;K. Ross;D. Rubenstein

144
Citations
Learning Passage Impacts for Inverted Indexes

Antonio Mallia;Omar Khattab;Torsten Suel;Nicola Tonellotto

91
Citations
Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

Jianzhong Li;X. Sean Wang;Minos Garofalakis;Ian Soboroff

81
Citations
Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on World wide web

Chin-Wan Chung;Andrei Broder;Kyuseok Shim;Torsten Suel

79
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Viswanath Poosala Facebook (United States)

Nasir Memon New York University

Satish Rao University of California, Berkeley

Jeffrey Scott Vitter University of Mississippi

Lars Arge Aarhus University

Brian D. Davison Lehigh University

Andrei Z. Broder Google (United States)

Frank Tom Leighton MIT

Kyuseok Shim Seoul National University

Michael Kaufmann University of Tübingen

External Links

Wikipedia of Torsten Suel Personal website of Torsten Suel Google Scholar page

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