Alin Dobra

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Alin Dobra is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Alin Dobra has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 22 papers in Signal Processing and 20 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Alin Dobra's work include Data Management and Algorithms (22 papers), Advanced Database Systems and Queries (21 papers) and Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (10 papers). Alin Dobra is often cited by papers focused on Data Management and Algorithms (22 papers), Advanced Database Systems and Queries (21 papers) and Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (10 papers). Alin Dobra collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and India. Alin Dobra's co-authors include Johannes Gehrke, David Kempe, Florin Rusu, Minos Garofalakis, Rajeev Rastogi, Christopher Jermaine, Subramanian Arumugam, Amit Dhurandhar, Tamer Kahveci and Chris Jermaine and has published in prestigious journals such as Bioinformatics, BMC Bioinformatics and Journal of Machine Learning Research.

In The Last Decade

Alin Dobra

50 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Gossip-based computation of aggregate information
    2004 877 citations David Kempe, Alin Dobra 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
Alin Dobra United States 18 1.4k 668 570 289 164 51 1.9k
Jun Xu United States 32 2.4k 1.7× 1.2k 1.8× 365 0.6× 345 1.2× 197 1.2× 132 2.9k
Panagiotis Karras Denmark 21 539 0.4× 1.0k 1.6× 463 0.8× 307 1.1× 339 2.1× 87 1.6k
Chin‐Wan Chung South Korea 26 993 0.7× 703 1.1× 1.1k 1.8× 394 1.4× 573 3.5× 130 2.2k
R. Rastogi United States 22 1.1k 0.8× 600 0.9× 329 0.6× 491 1.7× 99 0.6× 46 1.7k
Stratis D. Viglas United Kingdom 18 2.1k 1.5× 1.1k 1.6× 1.1k 2.0× 725 2.5× 202 1.2× 45 2.7k
Fabrizio Luccio Italy 19 559 0.4× 586 0.9× 379 0.7× 148 0.5× 201 1.2× 102 1.7k
Sheng Ma United States 21 445 0.3× 695 1.0× 273 0.5× 419 1.4× 333 2.0× 56 1.3k
Sharma Chakravarthy United States 18 1.1k 0.8× 769 1.2× 474 0.8× 637 2.2× 122 0.7× 126 1.6k
Ron Sacks‐Davis Australia 20 618 0.4× 664 1.0× 480 0.8× 439 1.5× 138 0.8× 53 1.2k
Levent Ertöz United States 7 676 0.5× 920 1.4× 409 0.7× 218 0.8× 149 0.9× 10 1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Alin Dobra

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alin Dobra

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alin Dobra

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alin Dobra. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alin Dobra 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 Alin Dobra. Alin Dobra 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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Bailey, Richard, et al.. (2023). Optimal Supervised Reduction of High Dimensional Transcription Data. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. 20(5). 3093–3105.
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Ren, Yuanfang, Ahmet Ay, Alin Dobra, & Tamer Kahveci. (2019). Characterizing building blocks of resource constrained biological networks. BMC Bioinformatics. 20(S12). 318–318. 1 indexed citations
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Dobra, Alin, et al.. (2015). Estimating reachability in dense biological networks. 86–95. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Kun, et al.. (2015). UDA-GIST. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment. 8(5). 557–568. 10 indexed citations
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Todor, Andrei, Alin Dobra, & Tamer Kahveci. (2013). Characterizing the Topology of Probabilistic Biological Networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. 10(4). 970–983. 6 indexed citations
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Todor, Andrei, Alin Dobra, & Tamer Kahveci. (2012). Uncertain interactions affect degree distribution of biological networks. 6. 1–5. 5 indexed citations
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Dobra, Alin, et al.. (2012). Probabilistic Biological Network Alignment. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. 10(1). 109–121. 22 indexed citations
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Dobra, Alin, et al.. (2012). Histograms as statistical estimators for aggregate queries. Information Systems. 38(2). 213–230. 5 indexed citations
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Dobra, Alin, et al.. (2010). The DataPath system. 519–530. 69 indexed citations
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Dhurandhar, Amit & Alin Dobra. (2008). Probabilistic Characterization of Random Decision Trees. Journal of Machine Learning Research. 9(76). 2321–2348. 12 indexed citations
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Jermaine, Chris, et al.. (2008). Scalable approximate query processing with the DBO engine. ACM Transactions on Database Systems. 33(4). 1–54. 54 indexed citations
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Dobra, Alin, Minos Garofalakis, Johannes Gehrke, & Rajeev Rastogi. (2008). Multi-query optimization for sketch-based estimation. Information Systems. 34(2). 209–230. 7 indexed citations
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Xia, Ye, Alin Dobra, & Seung Chul Han. (2007). Multiple-Choice Random Network for Server Load Balancing. 1982–1990. 4 indexed citations
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Jermaine, Christopher, et al.. (2006). The Sort-Merge-Shrink join. ACM Transactions on Database Systems. 31(4). 1382–1416. 25 indexed citations
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Jermaine, Christopher, et al.. (2005). Online estimation for subset-based SQL queries. Very Large Data Bases. 745–756. 12 indexed citations
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Jermaine, Christopher, et al.. (2005). A disk-based join with probabilistic guarantees. 563–574. 20 indexed citations
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Kempe, David, Alin Dobra, & Johannes Gehrke. (2004). Gossip-based computation of aggregate information. 482–491. 877 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gehrke, Johannes & Alin Dobra. (2003). Scalable classification and regression tree construction. 4 indexed citations
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Dobra, Alin, Minos Garofalakis, Johannes Gehrke, & Rajeev Rastogi. (2002). Processing complex aggregate queries over data streams. 61–72. 213 indexed citations
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Dobra, Alin & Johannes Gehrke. (2001). Bias Correction in Classification Tree Construction. International Conference on Machine Learning. 90–97. 26 indexed citations

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