Ali Anwar

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Ali Anwar is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Ali Anwar has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 29 papers in Information Systems and 29 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Ali Anwar's work include Cloud Computing and Resource Management (23 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (21 papers) and Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data (21 papers). Ali Anwar is often cited by papers focused on Cloud Computing and Resource Management (23 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (21 papers) and Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data (21 papers). Ali Anwar collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and China. Ali Anwar's co-authors include Yi Zhou, Heiko Ludwig, Nathalie Baracaldo, Thomas Steinke, Stacey Truex, Rui Zhang, Ali R. Butt, Yue Cheng, Zheng Chai and Yujing Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment and Biomedical Signal Processing and Control.

In The Last Decade

Ali Anwar

52 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

A Hybrid Approach to Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A Hybrid Approach to Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning
    2019 576 citations Stacey Truex, Nathalie Baracaldo et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ali Anwar United States 17 866 510 446 117 113 58 1.4k
Chugui Xu China 9 376 0.4× 412 0.8× 202 0.5× 80 0.7× 195 1.7× 12 837
Maryline Laurent France 15 632 0.7× 655 1.3× 648 1.5× 31 0.3× 135 1.2× 68 1.3k
Xiang Cheng China 20 527 0.6× 760 1.5× 397 0.9× 83 0.7× 436 3.9× 64 1.3k
Yunguo Guan Canada 16 610 0.7× 308 0.6× 236 0.5× 64 0.5× 79 0.7× 67 842
Cheng Chi China 17 572 0.7× 474 0.9× 410 0.9× 24 0.2× 282 2.5× 51 1.1k
Youwen Zhu China 17 615 0.7× 211 0.4× 382 0.9× 42 0.4× 59 0.5× 82 963
Milad Nasr United States 11 1.4k 1.6× 199 0.4× 171 0.4× 95 0.8× 104 0.9× 18 1.6k
Yujuan Tan China 13 546 0.6× 455 0.9× 319 0.7× 75 0.6× 94 0.8× 83 924

Countries citing papers authored by Ali Anwar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ali Anwar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ali Anwar

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ali Anwar. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ali Anwar based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ali Anwar. Ali Anwar is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Khan, Azal Ahmad, et al.. (2025). Safety Aware Task Planning via Large Language Models in Robotics. 21024–21031.
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Khan, Azal Ahmad, et al.. (2024). FLOAT: Federated Learning Optimizations with Automated Tuning. VTechWorks (Virginia Tech). 200–218. 6 indexed citations
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Abdelmoniem, Ahmed M., Mona Jaber, Ali Anwar, Yuchao Zhang, & Mingliang Gao. (2024). Towards a Decentralized Collaborative Framework for Scalable Edge AI. Future Internet. 16(11). 421–421. 2 indexed citations
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Zawad, Syed, et al.. (2023). HDFL: A Heterogeneity and Client Dropout-Aware Federated Learning Framework. 311–321. 2 indexed citations
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Anwar, Ali, et al.. (2023). FedDefender: Backdoor Attack Defense in Federated Learning. VTechWorks (Virginia Tech). 6–9. 5 indexed citations
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Xu, Runhua, Nathalie Baracaldo, Yi Zhou, et al.. (2022). DeTrust-FL: Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning in Decentralized Trust Setting. 417–426. 17 indexed citations
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Khan, Ahmad, Syed Zawad, Ali Anwar, et al.. (2022). Heterogeneity-Aware Adaptive Federated Learning Scheduling. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). 911–920. 8 indexed citations
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Xu, Runhua, Nathalie Baracaldo, Yi Zhou, et al.. (2021). FedV. 181–192. 45 indexed citations
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Albahar, Hadeel, et al.. (2020). DupHunter: Flexible High-Performance Deduplication for Docker Registries.. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 769–783. 14 indexed citations
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Anwar, Ali, Yue Cheng, Hai Huang, et al.. (2020). Customizable Scale-Out Key-Value Stores. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 31(9). 2081–2096. 3 indexed citations
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Tarasov, Vasily, Hadeel Albahar, Ali Anwar, et al.. (2020). Large-Scale Analysis of Docker Images and Performance Implications for Container Storage Systems. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 32(4). 918–930. 36 indexed citations
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Tarasov, Vasily, Hadeel Albahar, Ali Anwar, et al.. (2019). Large-Scale Analysis of the Docker Hub Dataset. 1–10. 24 indexed citations
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Truex, Stacey, Nathalie Baracaldo, Ali Anwar, et al.. (2019). A Hybrid Approach to Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning. Informatik-Spektrum. 42(5). 356–357. 51 indexed citations
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Anwar, Ali, Yue Cheng, Hai Huang, et al.. (2018). bespoKV: application tailored scale-out key-value stores. IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. 2. 5 indexed citations
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Anwar, Ali, Mohamed Mohamed, Vasily Tarasov, et al.. (2018). Improving Docker Registry Design Based on Production Workload Analysis. File and Storage Technologies. 265–278. 27 indexed citations
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Cheng, Yue, Zheng Chai, & Ali Anwar. (2018). Characterizing Co-located Datacenter Workloads. 1–3. 36 indexed citations
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Anwar, Ali, Yue Cheng, Hai Huang, & Ali R. Butt. (2016). ClusterOn: building highly configurable and reusable clustered data services using simple data nodes. 51–55. 6 indexed citations
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Anwar, Ali, Yue Cheng, & Ali R. Butt. (2016). Towards Managing Variability in the Cloud. 2. 1081–1084. 2 indexed citations
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Anwar, Ali, et al.. (2014). On the use of microservers in supporting hadoop applications. 66–74. 16 indexed citations

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