Dan Williams

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Dan Williams is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Dan Williams has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 25 papers in Information Systems and 22 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Dan Williams's work include Security and Verification in Computing (21 papers), Cloud Computing and Resource Management (19 papers) and Distributed systems and fault tolerance (12 papers). Dan Williams is often cited by papers focused on Security and Verification in Computing (21 papers), Cloud Computing and Resource Management (19 papers) and Distributed systems and fault tolerance (12 papers). Dan Williams collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Saudi Arabia. Dan Williams's co-authors include Hani Jamjoom, Ariel Orda, R. Guérin, Shriram Rajagopalan, Andrew Warfield, Hakim Weatherspoon, Ricardo Koller, Frank Hady, Annie Foong and Emin Gün Sirer and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, IBM Journal of Research and Development and Computer Networks.

In The Last Decade

Dan Williams

51 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Split/merge: system support for elastic execution in virtual middleboxes

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dan Williams United States	19	1.3k	702	429	413	359	54	1.8k
Xiangyao Yu United States	22	1.1k 0.8×	658 0.9×	803 1.9×	211 0.5×	568 1.6×	55	1.8k
KyoungSoo Park South Korea	21	2.2k 1.7×	912 1.3×	440 1.0×	264 0.6×	694 1.9×	49	2.5k
Mike Dahlin United States	31	2.9k 2.2×	1.2k 1.8×	607 1.4×	190 0.5×	242 0.7×	69	3.1k
Vivek S. Pai United States	25	2.9k 2.2×	1.2k 1.7×	436 1.0×	225 0.5×	396 1.1×	52	3.1k
Hakim Weatherspoon United States	27	4.0k 3.1×	1.4k 1.9×	641 1.5×	252 0.6×	306 0.9×	84	4.4k
Aleksandar Kuzmanovic United States	21	1.7k 1.3×	262 0.4×	728 1.7×	290 0.7×	83 0.2×	79	1.9k
Tudor Dumitraş United States	21	1.1k 0.9×	877 1.2×	441 1.0×	245 0.6×	253 0.7×	60	1.7k
Carl Staelin United States	14	1.6k 1.2×	503 0.7×	288 0.7×	154 0.4×	805 2.2×	39	2.0k
Yair Amir United States	27	1.9k 1.5×	423 0.6×	335 0.8×	235 0.6×	254 0.7×	81	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Dan Williams

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dan Williams

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dan Williams

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Williams, Dan, et al.. (2025). Towards Safe Agentic AI Performance Engineering. VTechWorks (Virginia Tech). 63–68.

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Zhang, Ying, et al.. (2024). Broadly Enabling KLEE to Effortlessly Find Unrecoverable Errors in Rust. VTechWorks (Virginia Tech). 441–451.

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Rao, T. J., et al.. (2024). Eliminating eBPF Tracing Overhead on Untraced Processes. VTechWorks (Virginia Tech). 16–22. 5 indexed citations

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Williams, Dan, et al.. (2024). Unsafe kernel extension composition via BPF program nesting. 65–67. 1 indexed citations

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Oswald, A., et al.. (2023). Enabling eBPF on Embedded Systems Through Decoupled Verification. VTechWorks (Virginia Tech). 63–69. 2 indexed citations

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Oswald, A., et al.. (2023). Kernel extension verification is untenable. VTechWorks (Virginia Tech). 150–157. 16 indexed citations

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Le, Michael, et al.. (2023). Securing Container-based Clouds with Syscall-aware Scheduling. VTechWorks (Virginia Tech). 812–826. 4 indexed citations

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Williams, Dan, et al.. (2018). Say goodbye to virtualization for a safer cloud. IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science. 20–20. 7 indexed citations

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Williams, Dan, et al.. (2018). A Theory of Participatory Budgeting Decision Making as a Form of Empowerment. CUNY Academic Works (City University of New York). 2 indexed citations

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Williams, Dan, et al.. (2016). Version traveler: fast and memory-efficient version switching in graph processing systems. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 523–536. 17 indexed citations

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Williams, Dan, et al.. (2016). Enabling Efficient Hypervisor-as-a-Service Clouds with Ephemeral Virtualization. 79–92. 5 indexed citations

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Jamjoom, Hani, et al.. (2015). Flux. 1–17. 25 indexed citations

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Williams, Dan, Hani Jamjoom, & Hakim Weatherspoon. (2014). Software defining system devices with the 'Banana' double-split driver model. IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science. 5–5. 4 indexed citations

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Williams, Dan, Hani Jamjoom, & Hakim Weatherspoon. (2012). Plug into the Supercloud. IEEE Internet Computing. 17(2). 28–34. 16 indexed citations

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Williams, Dan, et al.. (2011). Unshackle the cloud. IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science. 16–16. 10 indexed citations

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Williams, Dan, et al.. (2011). Overdriver. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 46(7). 205–216. 19 indexed citations

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Williams, Dan, Patrick Reynolds, Kevin Walsh, Emin Gün Sirer, & Fred B. Schneider. (2008). Device driver safety through a reference validation mechanism. Operating Systems Design and Implementation. 241–254. 82 indexed citations

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McLean, David, et al.. (2008). Pediatric Cancers. PubMed. 40. 122–134. 1 indexed citations

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McLean, David, et al.. (2008). Genitourinary Cancers. PubMed. 40. 92–101. 1 indexed citations

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McLean, David, et al.. (2008). Skin Cancers. PubMed. 40. 111–121. 1 indexed citations

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