2026 Wojciech Szpankowski: 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	55	4398	4274	2053	1980	379	9385

Wojciech Szpankowski 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 Wojciech Szpankowski sits on this spectrum.

32 publications 991+

This scientist: 379 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wojciech Szpankowski 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 Wojciech Szpankowski sits on this spectrum.

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.

Research.com Recognitions

2004 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to information system performance evaluation.

Overview

Wojciech Szpankowski is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States and has a research focus primarily in the field of Computer Science. Within this domain, their work spans several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Management Science and Operations Research, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad spectrum, including Machine Learning and Algorithms, Algorithms and Data Compression, Advanced Bandit Algorithms Research, Complex Network Analysis Techniques, Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture, Neural Networks and Applications, and Quantum Information and Cryptography.

Wojciech Szpankowski has contributed to various publication venues with notable frequency in:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics
2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)

Frequent coauthors of Szpankowski include:

Mohsen Heidari
Changlong Wu
Krzysztof Turowski
Ananth Grama
Gil I. Shamir

Selected recent papers featuring their collaboration or influence include:

"Revisiting Parameter Estimation in Biological Networks: Influence of Symmetries" (2020), published in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
"Toward Physically Realizable Quantum Neural Networks" (2022), published in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
"Statistical and computational thresholds for the planted k-densest sub-hypergraph problem" (2020), published on arXiv (Cornell University)
"Power-Law Degree Distribution in the Connected Component of a Duplication Graph" (2020), published by Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
"Expected Worst Case Regret via Stochastic Sequential Covering" (2022), published on arXiv (Cornell University)

Szpankowski has authored scholarly books, including:

"Analytic Information Theory" (2023), published by Cambridge University Press

The scientist was recognized as an IEEE Fellow in 2004 with a citation for contributions to information system performance evaluation.

Best Publications

Average Case Analysis of Algorithms on Sequences

Wojciech Szpankowski

675
Citations
Pairwise alignment of protein interaction networks.

Mehmet Koyutürk;Yohan Kim;Umut Topkara;Shankar Subramaniam

358
Citations
STABILITY CONDITIONS FOR SOME DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS: BUFFERED RANDOM ACCESS SYSTEMS

Wojciech Szpankowski

323
Citations
An efficient algorithm for detecting frequent subgraphs in biological networks

Mehmet Koyutürk;Ananth Grama;Wojciech Szpankowski

266
Citations
Analytical depoissonization and its applications

Philippe Jacquet;Wojciech Szpankowski

253
Citations
Reliable detection of episodes in event sequences

Robert Gwadera;Mikhail J. Atallah;Wojciech Szpankowski

185
Citations
On the entropy of a hidden Markov process

Philippe Jacquet;Gadiel Seroussi;Wojciech Szpankowski

185
Citations
Analysis of algorithms

Philippe Flajolet;Wojciech Szpankowski

159
Citations
Asymptotic behavior of the Lempel-Ziv parsing scheme and digital search trees

Philippe Jacquet;Wojciech Szpankowski

158
Citations
A suboptimal lossy data compression based on approximate pattern matching

T. Luczak;W. Szpankowski

149
Citations
On Pattern Frequency Occurrences in a Markovian Sequence

Mireille Régnier;Wojciech Szpankowski

147
Citations
Compression of Graphical Structures: Fundamental Limits, Algorithms, and Experiments

Yongwook Choi;W. Szpankowski

141
Citations
A generalized suffix tree and its (un)expected asymptotic behaviors

Wojciech Szpankowski

135
Citations
Entropy computations via analytic depoissonization

P. Jacquet;W. Szpankowski

132
Citations
On the average redundancy rate of the Lempel-Ziv code

G. Louchard;W. Szpankowski

129
Citations
Precise minimax redundancy and regret

M. Drmota;W. Szpankowski

126
Citations
Autocorrelation on words and its applications: analysis of suffix trees by string-ruler approach

Philippe Jacquet;Wojciech Szpankowski

123
Citations
Detecting conserved interaction patterns in biological networks.

Mehmet Koyutürk;Yohan Kim;Shankar Subramaniam;Wojciech Szpankowski

117
Citations
Analysis of digital tries with Markovian dependency

P. Jacquet;W. Szpankowski

109
Citations
Asymptotic properties of data compression and suffix trees

W. Szpankowski

109
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ananth Grama Purdue University West Lafayette

Helmut Prodinger Stellenbosch University

Mikhail J. Atallah Purdue University West Lafayette

Stefano Lonardi University of California, Riverside

Gadiel Seroussi University of the Republic

Svante Janson Uppsala University

Leonidas Georgiadis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Alan Frieze Carnegie Mellon University

Philippe Flajolet French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA

Sergio Verdu Princeton University

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