Andrew Waterman

6.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
24 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Andrew Waterman is a scholar working on Hardware and Architecture, Computer Networks and Communications and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew Waterman has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Hardware and Architecture, 8 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 8 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Andrew Waterman's work include Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (14 papers), Embedded Systems Design Techniques (10 papers) and Interconnection Networks and Systems (6 papers). Andrew Waterman is often cited by papers focused on Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (14 papers), Embedded Systems Design Techniques (10 papers) and Interconnection Networks and Systems (6 papers). Andrew Waterman collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Spain. Andrew Waterman's co-authors include David A. Patterson, Samuel Williams, Yunsup Lee, Krste Asanović, Rimas Avižienis, Brian Richards, Jonathan Bachrach, John Wawrzynek, Huy T. Vo and Henry Cook and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits and IEEE Micro.

In The Last Decade

Andrew Waterman

23 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

Roofline 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 2012 400 800 1.2k
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. Roofline
    2009 1.4k citations Samuel Williams, Andrew Waterman et al. Communications of the ACM profile →
  2. Chisel
    2012 584 citations Jonathan Bachrach, Huy T. Vo 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
Andrew Waterman United States 14 1.8k 1.2k 806 462 392 24 2.7k
Mikhail Smelyanskiy United States 22 1.3k 0.7× 1.1k 0.9× 340 0.4× 381 0.8× 337 0.9× 56 2.3k
Franz Franchetti United States 25 1.6k 0.9× 938 0.8× 803 1.0× 425 0.9× 368 0.9× 124 2.6k
John Wawrzynek United States 30 2.9k 1.6× 2.4k 2.0× 1.3k 1.6× 556 1.2× 483 1.2× 128 4.3k
Martin Burtscher United States 28 2.1k 1.2× 2.0k 1.6× 507 0.6× 718 1.6× 673 1.7× 122 3.1k
Paul Chow Canada 29 2.0k 1.1× 1.5k 1.2× 1.0k 1.3× 352 0.8× 276 0.7× 164 2.8k
Shoaib Kamil United States 25 1.5k 0.8× 1.1k 0.9× 337 0.4× 490 1.1× 400 1.0× 70 2.2k
Richard Vuduc United States 32 2.5k 1.3× 2.0k 1.7× 452 0.6× 711 1.5× 426 1.1× 132 3.7k
Daehyun Kim United States 17 763 0.4× 770 0.6× 451 0.6× 335 0.7× 269 0.7× 57 1.6k
H. Peter Hofstee United States 21 1.6k 0.9× 1.4k 1.1× 752 0.9× 311 0.7× 235 0.6× 78 2.5k
John L. Gustafson United States 18 1.1k 0.6× 930 0.8× 435 0.5× 298 0.6× 194 0.5× 79 2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Andrew Waterman

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Andrew Waterman's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Andrew Waterman with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Andrew Waterman more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Andrew Waterman

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Andrew Waterman. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Andrew Waterman. The network helps show where Andrew Waterman may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andrew Waterman

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Andrew Waterman. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Andrew Waterman 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 Andrew Waterman. Andrew Waterman 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
1.
Biancolin, David, Sagar Karandikar, Donggyu Kim, et al.. (2019). FASED. 330–339. 23 indexed citations
2.
Patterson, David A. & Andrew Waterman. (2017). The RISC-V Reader: An Open Architecture Atlas. 29 indexed citations
3.
Lee, Yunsup, Andrew Waterman, Henry Cook, et al.. (2016). An Agile Approach to Building RISC-V Microprocessors. IEEE Micro. 36(2). 8–20. 70 indexed citations
4.
Zimmer, Brian, Yunsup Lee, Alberto Puggelli, et al.. (2016). A RISC-V Vector Processor With Simultaneous-Switching Switched-Capacitor DC–DC Converters in 28 nm FDSOI. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. 51(4). 930–942. 51 indexed citations
5.
Waterman, Andrew. (2016). Design of the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 64 indexed citations
6.
Zimmer, Brian, Yunsup Lee, Alberto Puggelli, et al.. (2015). A RISC-V vector processor with tightly-integrated switched-capacitor DC-DC converters in 28nm FDSOI. C316–C317. 25 indexed citations
7.
Lee, Yunsup, Andrew Waterman, Rimas Avižienis, et al.. (2014). A 45nm 1.3GHz 16.7 double-precision GFLOPS/W RISC-V processor with vector accelerators. 199–202. 99 indexed citations
8.
Waterman, Andrew, Yunsup Lee, Rimas Avižienis, et al.. (2013). The RISC-V instruction set. 1–1. 21 indexed citations
9.
Lee, Yunsup, David Sheffield, Andrew Waterman, et al.. (2013). Measuring the gap between programmable and fixed-function accelerators: A case study on speech recognition. 1–2. 1 indexed citations
10.
Bachrach, Jonathan, Huy T. Vo, Brian Richards, et al.. (2012). Chisel. 1216–1225. 584 indexed citations breakdown →
11.
Waterman, Andrew. (2011). Improving Energy Efficiency and Reducing Code Size with RISC-V Compressed. UC Berkeley. 4 indexed citations
12.
García‐Barrios, Luis, et al.. (2011). Social dilemmas and individual/group coordination strategies in a complex rural land-use game. International Journal of the Commons. 5(2). 364–364. 1 indexed citations
13.
Tan, Zhangxi, Andrew Waterman, Rimas Avižienis, et al.. (2010). RAMP gold. 463–468. 79 indexed citations
14.
Tan, Zhangxi, et al.. (2010). A case for FAME. 290–301. 58 indexed citations
15.
Tan, Zhangxi, et al.. (2010). A case for FAME. ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News. 38(3). 290–301. 11 indexed citations
16.
Williams, Samuel, Andrew Waterman, & David A. Patterson. (2009). Roofline. Communications of the ACM. 52(4). 65–76. 1402 indexed citations breakdown →
17.
Fitelson, Branden & Andrew Waterman. (2007). Comparative Bayesian Confirmation and the Quine–Duhem Problem: A Rejoinder to Strevens. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 58(2). 333–338. 7 indexed citations
18.
Waterman, Andrew. (2006). As If There Were No Shadows. Critical Quarterly. 48(2). 99–100. 1 indexed citations
19.
Fitelson, Branden & Andrew Waterman. (2005). Bayesian Confirmation and Auxiliary Hypotheses Revisited: A Reply to Strevens. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 56(2). 293–302. 12 indexed citations
20.
Waterman, Andrew. (1979). Storm. The Hudson Review. 32(1). 33–33. 1 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Mikhail Smelyanskiy Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Franz Franchetti Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by John Wawrzynek Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Martin Burtscher Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Paul Chow Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Shoaib Kamil Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Richard Vuduc Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Daehyun Kim Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by H. Peter Hofstee Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by John L. Gustafson
Rankless by CCL
2026