2026 Viswanath Poosala: 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	34	11923	11578	4869	4653	91	8697

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Overview

Viswanath Poosala is affiliated with Facebook in the United States. Their work is situated within the United States academic and professional context.

No recent papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, book publications, fields of study, subfields, or main topics of work are specified in the available data. There are also no awards listed for Viswanath Poosala.

Best Publications

Improved histograms for selectivity estimation of range predicates

Viswanath Poosala;Peter J. Haas;Yannis E. Ioannidis;Eugene J. Shekita

899
Citations
Selectivity Estimation Without the Attribute Value Independence Assumption

Viswanath Poosala;Yannis E. Ioannidis

669
Citations
Optimal Histograms with Quality Guarantees

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

595
Citations
Fast incremental maintenance of approximate histograms

Phillip B. Gibbons;Yossi Matias;Viswanath Poosala

509
Citations
Join synopses for approximate query answering

Swarup Acharya;Phillip B. Gibbons;Viswanath Poosala;Sridhar Ramaswamy

482
Citations
On rectangular partitionings in two dimensions : Algorithms, complexity, and applications

S. Muthukrishnan;V. Poosala;T. Suel

448
Citations
Balancing histogram optimality and practicality for query result size estimation

Yannis E. Ioannidis;Viswanath Poosala

417
Citations
The New Jersey Data Reduction Report.

Daniel Barbará;William DuMouchel;Christos Faloutsos;Peter J. Haas

381
Citations
Congressional samples for approximate answering of group-by queries

Swarup Acharya;Phillip B. Gibbons;Viswanath Poosala

335
Citations
Selectivity estimation in spatial databases

Swarup Acharya;Viswanath Poosala;Sridhar Ramaswamy

314
Citations
Histogram-Based Approximation of Set-Valued Query-Answers

Yannis E. Ioannidis;Viswanath Poosala

309
Citations
The Aqua approximate query answering system

Swarup Acharya;Phillip B. Gibbons;Viswanath Poosala;Sridhar Ramaswamy

307
Citations
Provision of location-based services utilizing user movement statistics

Vinod Anupam;Suryanarayan Perinkulam;Chitra A. Phadke;Viswanath Poosala

265
Citations
Auctioning of message delivery opportunities in a location-based services system

Viswanath Poosala

197
Citations
Prioritization of location queries in a location-based services system

Karl Georg Hampel;William Michael MacDonald;Nachi K. Nithi;Viswanath Poosala

179
Citations
Methods and apparatus for providing location-based services in a wireless communication system

Viswanath Poosala

175
Citations
Histogram-based estimation techniques in database systems

Viswanath Poosala

156
Citations
Method, apparatus and programmed medium for approximating the data cube and obtaining approximate answers to queries in relational databases

Viswanath Poosala;Venkatesh Ganti

139
Citations
Fast approximate answers to aggregate queries on a data cube

V. Poosala;V. Ganti

134
Citations
Approximate querying method for databases with multiple grouping attributes

Swarup Acharya;Phillip B. Gibbons;Viswanath Poosala

134
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Phillip B. Gibbons Carnegie Mellon University

Yannis E. Ioannidis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Torsten Suel New York University

Henry F. Korth Lehigh University

Yossi Matias Google (United States)

Peter J. Haas University of Massachusetts Amherst

Kenneth C. Sevcik University of Toronto

Hosagrahar V. Jagadish University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

William DuMouchel Oracle (United States)

Peter J. Winzer Nokia (United States)

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