2026 William L. Ditto: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	51	3794	3638	1113	1020	205	11994

Research.com Recognitions

2017 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
2004 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
2003 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For achievements in experimental nonlinear dynamics, especially as applied to biological systems such as the heart and the brain

Overview

William L. Ditto is affiliated with North Carolina State University in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Computer Science and Physics and Astronomy, with a particular focus on Artificial Intelligence and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics as primary subfields. They also engage in Modeling and Simulation, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work covers various main topics, including:

Neural Networks and Applications
Model Reduction and Neural Networks
Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing
Computational Physics and Python Applications
Stochastic dynamics and bifurcation
COVID-19 epidemiological studies
Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications

Among their recent papers are:

Modeling and forecasting of epidemic spreading: The case of Covid-19 and beyond, 2020, Chaos Solitons & Fractals
Physics-enhanced neural networks learn order and chaos, 2020, Physical review. E
Construction of logic gates exploiting resonance phenomena in nonlinear systems, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
Nonlinear dynamics based machine learning: Utilizing dynamics-based flexibility of nonlinear circuits to implement different functions, 2020, PLoS ONE
The scaling of physics-informed machine learning with data and dimensions, 2020, Chaos Solitons & Fractals X

Frequent publication venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Chaos Solitons & Fractals
Physical review. E
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
PLoS ONE

Frequent coauthors throughout their career are:

Sudeshna Sinha
John F. Lindner
Anshul Choudhary
Scott T. Miller
Anil Radhakrishnan

William L. Ditto has been recognized with multiple fellowships, including:

Fellow, National Academy of Inventors, 2017
Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), 2004
Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), 2003, cited for achievements in experimental nonlinear dynamics, especially as applied to biological systems such as the heart and the brain

Best Publications

Controlling Cardiac Chaos

Alan Garfinkel;Mark L. Spano;William L. Ditto;James N. Weiss

1254
Citations
Controlling chaos in the brain

Steven J. Schiff;Kristin Jerger;Duc H. Duong;Taeun Chang

1242
Citations
Experimental control of chaos.

W. L. Ditto;S. N. Rauseo;M. L. Spano

1115
Citations
Spatiotemporal evolution of ventricular fibrillation

Francis X. Witkowski;L. Joshua Leon;Patricia A. Penkoske;Wayne R. Giles

634
Citations
Array enhanced stochastic resonance and spatiotemporal synchronization.

John F. Lindner;Brian K. Meadows;William L. Ditto;Mario E. Inchiosa

557
Citations
Stochastic Resonance in a Neuronal Network from Mammalian Brain

Bruce J. Gluckman;Theoden I. Netoff;Emily J. Neel;William L. Ditto

433
Citations
Taming spatiotemporal chaos with disorder

Y. Braiman;Y. Braiman;John F. Lindner;John F. Lindner;William L. Ditto

298
Citations
Experimental observation of a strange nonchaotic attractor.

WL Ditto;ML Spano;HT Savage;SN Rauseo

280
Citations
DYNAMICS BASED COMPUTATION

Sudeshna Sinha;William L. Ditto

273
Citations
Reliable logic circuit elements that exploit nonlinearity in the presence of a noise floor

K. Murali;K. Murali;Sudeshna Sinha;William L. Ditto;Adi R. Bulsara

244
Citations
Electric field suppression of epileptiform activity in hippocampal slices

Bruce J. Gluckman;Emily J. Neel;Theoden I. Netoff;William L. Ditto

224
Citations
Using the sensitive dependence of chaos (the "butterfly effect") to direct trajectories in an experimental chaotic system.

Troy Shinbrot;Troy Shinbrot;Troy Shinbrot;William Ditto;William Ditto;William Ditto;Celso Grebogi;Celso Grebogi;Celso Grebogi;Edward Ott;Edward Ott;Edward Ott

224
Citations
A noise-assisted reprogrammable nanomechanical logic gate.

Diego N. Guerra;Adi R. Bulsara;William L. Ditto;Sudeshna Sinha

210
Citations
Principles and applications of chaotic systems

William Ditto;Toshinori Munakata

194
Citations
Scaling laws for spatiotemporal synchronization and array enhanced stochastic resonance.

John F. Lindner;Brian K. Meadows;William L. Ditto;Mario E. Inchiosa

190
Citations
Noise Enhanced Propagation

John F. Lindner;Sridhar Chandramouli;Adi R. Bulsara;Markus Löcher

161
Citations
Computing with distributed chaos.

Sudeshna Sinha;William L. Ditto

156
Citations
Controlling Stochastic Resonance

Luca Gammaitoni;Markus Löcher;Adi Bulsara;Peter Hänggi

155
Citations
Experimental observation of crisis-induced intermittency and its critical exponent.

W. L. Ditto;S. Rauseo;R. Cawley;C. Grebogi

150
Citations
Techniques for the control of chaos

William L. Ditto;Mark L. Spano;John F. Lindner

137
Citations
Chaos computing: implementation of fundamental logical gates by chaotic elements

T. Munakata;S. Sinha;W.L. Ditto

137
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