Bistra Dilkina

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
94 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Bistra Dilkina is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Artificial Intelligence and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bistra Dilkina has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 19 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 18 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Bistra Dilkina's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (15 papers), Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation (7 papers) and Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization (7 papers). Bistra Dilkina is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (15 papers), Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation (7 papers) and Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization (7 papers). Bistra Dilkina collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Bistra Dilkina's co-authors include Caleb Robinson, Elias B. Khalil, Marilyn A. Brown, Subhrajit Guhathakurta, Ram M. Pendyala, Wenwen Zhang, Le Song, Milind Tambe, George L. Nemhauser and Bryan Wilder and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Bistra Dilkina

84 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.

Machine learning approaches for estimating commercial building energy consumption

2017 382 citations Caleb Robinson, Bistra Dilkina et al. Applied Energy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bistra Dilkina United States	22	357	296	263	248	216	94	1.9k
Abolghasem Sadeghi‐Niaraki South Korea	28	183 0.5×	282 1.0×	169 0.6×	434 1.8×	119 0.6×	157	2.8k
Patrick Weber Germany	7	333 0.9×	207 0.7×	397 1.5×	222 0.9×	106 0.5×	24	2.2k
Hong Zhang China	29	521 1.5×	435 1.5×	190 0.7×	109 0.4×	146 0.7×	146	2.8k
Nico Van de Weghe Belgium	32	371 1.0×	176 0.6×	183 0.7×	124 0.5×	164 0.8×	172	3.6k
Xun Zhou United States	26	521 1.5×	484 1.6×	298 1.1×	214 0.9×	58 0.3×	119	2.4k
Pablo Martı́nez Canada	21	417 1.2×	214 0.7×	87 0.3×	651 2.6×	388 1.8×	106	3.0k
Peter Mooney Ireland	28	223 0.6×	303 1.0×	82 0.3×	202 0.8×	181 0.8×	118	2.8k
Samsung Lim Australia	28	254 0.7×	140 0.5×	146 0.6×	442 1.8×	273 1.3×	152	2.3k
Joon Heo South Korea	26	454 1.3×	160 0.5×	241 0.9×	726 2.9×	278 1.3×	150	2.2k
Ioannis N. Athanasiadis Netherlands	32	109 0.3×	450 1.5×	138 0.5×	329 1.3×	394 1.8×	151	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Bistra Dilkina

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bistra Dilkina

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bistra Dilkina

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All Works

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Davis, Jordan P., Daniel Leightley, Eric R. Pedersen, et al.. (2025). Daily associations between sleep quality, stress, and cannabis or alcohol use among veterans. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 271. 112661–112661.

Tadesse, Girmaw Abebe, Laura Ferguson, Caleb Robinson, et al.. (2025). Forecasting acute childhood malnutrition in Kenya using machine learning and diverse sets of indicators. PLoS ONE. 20(5). e0322959–e0322959.

Dilkina, Bistra, et al.. (2023). A machine learning framework to estimate residential electricity demand based on smart meter electricity, climate, building characteristics, and socioeconomic datasets. Applied Energy. 357. 122413–122413. 14 indexed citations

Dilkina, Bistra, et al.. (2023). MegaSDM: Modelling Species Ranges in The Past And Future. 60(2). 115–115.

Durham, Joseph W., et al.. (2023). Deadline-Aware Multi-Agent Tour Planning. Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. 33(1). 189–197. 2 indexed citations

Albers, Heidi J., Charlotte H. Chang, Sahan T. M. Dissanayake, et al.. (2023). Anticipating anthropogenic threats in acquiring new protected areas. Conservation Biology. 38(2). e14176–e14176. 1 indexed citations

Gore, Meredith L., et al.. (2023). Advancing interdisciplinary science for disrupting wildlife trafficking networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(10). e2208268120–e2208268120. 8 indexed citations

Keskin, Burcu B., et al.. (2022). Quantitative Investigation of Wildlife Trafficking Supply Chains: A Review. Omega. 115. 102780–102780. 28 indexed citations

Dilkina, Bistra, et al.. (2021). Learning Node-Selection Strategies in Bounded-Suboptimal Conflict-Based Search for Multi-Agent Path Finding. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. 611–619. 10 indexed citations

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Robinson, Caleb, Bistra Dilkina, & Juan Moreno‐Cruz. (2020). Modeling migration patterns in the USA under sea level rise. PLoS ONE. 15(1). e0227436–e0227436. 53 indexed citations

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Bondi, Elizabeth, Hoon Oh, Haifeng Xu, et al.. (2019). Broken Signals in Security Games: Coordinating Patrollers and Sensors in the Real World. 1838–1840. 1 indexed citations

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Wilder, Bryan, et al.. (2019). End to end learning and optimization on graphs. arXiv (Cornell University). 32. 4672–4683. 5 indexed citations

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Wilder, Bryan, et al.. (2019). Decision-Focused Learning of Adversary Behavior in Security Games. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Bondi, Elizabeth, Hoon Oh, Haifeng Xu, et al.. (2019). Using Game Theory in Real Time in the Real World: A Conservation Case Study. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 2336–2338. 2 indexed citations

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Gholami, Shahrzad, et al.. (2019). Don't Put All Your Strategies in One Basket: Playing Green Security Games with Imperfect Prior Knowledge. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 395–403. 4 indexed citations

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Lu, Zhongming, et al.. (2019). Decentralized water collection systems for households and communities: Household preferences in Atlanta and Boston. Water Research. 167. 115134–115134. 35 indexed citations

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Gholami, Shahrzad, Bistra Dilkina, Andrew J. Plumptre, et al.. (2018). Adversary Models Account for Imperfect Crime Data: Forecasting and Planning against Real-world Poachers. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 823–831. 12 indexed citations

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Dilkina, Bistra, et al.. (2015). Coarse Models for Bird Migrations Using Clustering and Non-Stationary Markov Chains.. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2 indexed citations

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Dilkina, Bistra, et al.. (2015). Sustainable Building Design: A Challenge at the Intersection of Machine Learning and Design Optimization. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 12 indexed citations

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Dilkina, Bistra, Carla P. Gomes, & Ashish Sabharwal. (2007). The impact of network topology on pure Nash equilibria in graphical games. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 42–49. 5 indexed citations

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