2026 Wilson C. Hsieh: 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	30	13806	13388	5479	5212	90	17408

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

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Computer Science

13806

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5479

5212

17408

Overview

Wilson C. Hsieh is affiliated with Google in the United States and has contributed to the field of computer science with a focus on several subfields and topics. Their publication record includes work primarily in the areas of computer vision and pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, cellular and molecular neuroscience, biomedical engineering, and computer networks and communications.

The main topics of their research encompass:

Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
Network Security and Intrusion Detection
Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Aesthetic Perception and Analysis

Wilson C. Hsieh has published extensively in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), SSRN Electronic Journal, and Circulation Research. The majority of their recent work appears in arXiv, which has included six publications to date.

Some of the recent papers authored by Wilson C. Hsieh include:

A Comprehensive Guide to Explainable AI: From Classical Models to LLMs, 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)
Deep Learning, Machine Learning -- Digital Signal and Image Processing: From Theory to Application, 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)

Their research collaborations frequently involve several co-authors with whom they have co-published multiple papers. Notable frequent co-authors include:

Jinlang Wang
Yizhu Wen
Jin−Tao Ren
Xiaoyong Pan
Keyu Chen

Best Publications

Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data

Fay Chang;Jeffrey Dean;Sanjay Ghemawat;Wilson C. Hsieh

8142
Citations
Spanner: Google’s Globally Distributed Database

James C. Corbett;Jeffrey Dean;Michael Epstein;Andrew Fikes

2326
Citations
Bigtable: a distributed storage system for structured data

Fay Chang;Jeffrey Dean;Sanjay Ghemawat;Wilson C. Hsieh

1624
Citations
Spanner: Google's globally-distributed database

James C. Corbett;Jeffrey Dean;Michael Epstein;Andrew Fikes

1192
Citations
Impulse: building a smarter memory controller

J. Carter;W. Hsieh;L. Stoller;M. Swanson

369
Citations
Spanner

Unknown

297
Citations
Processes in KaffeOS: isolation, resource management, and sharing in java

Godmar Back;Wilson C. Hsieh;Jay Lepreau

284
Citations
Jiazzi: new-age components for old-fasioned Java

Sean McDirmid;Matthew Flatt;Wilson C. Hsieh

244
Citations
The logical disk: a new approach to improving file systems

Wiebren de Jonge;M. Frans Kaashoek;Wilson C. Hsieh

214
Citations
C: a language for high-level, efficient, and machine-independent dynamic code generation

Dawson R. Engler;Wilson C. Hsieh;M. Frans Kaashoek

183
Citations
C and tcc: a language and compiler for dynamic code generation

Massimiliano Poletto;Wilson C. Hsieh;Dawson R. Engler;M. Frans Kaashoek

173
Citations
The Impulse memory controller

Lixin Zhang;Zhen Fang;M. Parker;B.K. Mathew

150
Citations
Jiazzi: New-Age Components for Old-Fashioned Java

Unknown

127
Citations
Computation migration: enhancing locality for distributed-memory parallel systems

Wilson C. Hsieh;Paul Wang;William E. Weihl

104
Citations
A framework for determining useful parallelism

F. Allen;M. Burke;R. Cytron;J. Ferrante

102
Citations
Runtime aspect weaving through metaprogramming

Jason Baker;Wilson Hsieh

102
Citations
Optimistic active messages: a mechanism for scheduling communication with computation

Deborah A. Wallach;Wilson C. Hsieh;Kirk L. Johnson;M. Frans Kaashoek

95
Citations
Maya: multiple-dispatch syntax extension in Java

Jason Baker;Wilson C. Hsieh

94
Citations
Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data (Awarded Best Paper!).

Fay Chang;Jeffrey Dean;Sanjay Ghemawat;Wilson C. Hsieh

90
Citations
Drawing the red line in Java

G. Back;W. Hsieh

82
Citations
Automatic generation of DAG parallelism

R. Cytron;M. Hind;W. Hsieh

81
Citations
Systems and methods of increasing database access concurrency using granular timestamps

Wilson Cheng-Yi Hsieh;Alexander Lloyd;Eric Hugh Veach

78
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

John B. Carter IBM (United States)

Lixin Zhang East China University of Science and Technology

Jeffrey Dean Google (United States)

Sally A. McKee Chalmers University of Technology

Sanjay Ghemawat Google (United States)

William E. Weihl ClimateVoice

M. Frans Kaashoek MIT

Matthew Flatt University of Utah

Dawson Engler Stanford University

Eric Brewer University of California, Berkeley

External Links

Personal website of Wilson C. Hsieh

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