Donald Nguyen

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Donald Nguyen is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Hardware and Architecture and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Donald Nguyen has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 20 papers in Hardware and Architecture and 5 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Donald Nguyen's work include Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (20 papers), Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (13 papers) and Graph Theory and Algorithms (5 papers). Donald Nguyen is often cited by papers focused on Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (20 papers), Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (13 papers) and Graph Theory and Algorithms (5 papers). Donald Nguyen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Poland and Taiwan. Donald Nguyen's co-authors include Keshav Pingali, Andrew Lenharth, Xin Sui, Milind Kulkarni, Dimitrios Prountzos, Martin Burtscher, M. Amber Hassaan, Mario Méndez-Lojo, Rashid Kaleem and Roman Manevich and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, The Astronomical Journal and ACM SIGPLAN Notices.

In The Last Decade

Donald Nguyen

27 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

A lightweight infrastructure for graph analytics 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 100 200 300
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 lightweight infrastructure for graph analytics
    2013 391 citations Donald Nguyen, Andrew Lenharth 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
Donald Nguyen United States 13 609 605 587 342 341 30 1.1k
Duane Merrill United States 13 547 0.9× 470 0.8× 558 1.0× 189 0.6× 377 1.1× 20 1.1k
Amitabha Roy United States 11 757 1.2× 628 1.0× 409 0.7× 525 1.5× 535 1.6× 36 1.3k
Andrew Lenharth United States 16 628 1.0× 602 1.0× 656 1.1× 420 1.2× 597 1.8× 29 1.4k
Tayo Oguntebi United States 7 363 0.6× 381 0.6× 378 0.6× 142 0.4× 207 0.6× 9 674
Jeremy T. Fineman United States 15 809 1.3× 163 0.3× 621 1.1× 141 0.4× 277 0.8× 64 1.1k
Julian Shun United States 19 844 1.4× 1.1k 1.9× 703 1.2× 465 1.4× 837 2.5× 64 1.8k
Haijie Gu United States 4 425 0.7× 829 1.4× 207 0.4× 476 1.4× 522 1.5× 6 1.1k
Douglas Gregor United States 12 274 0.4× 247 0.4× 285 0.5× 266 0.8× 369 1.1× 25 762
M. Amber Hassaan United States 6 330 0.5× 269 0.4× 340 0.6× 155 0.5× 147 0.4× 10 601
Dimitrios Prountzos United States 11 366 0.6× 213 0.4× 366 0.6× 127 0.4× 141 0.4× 15 601

Countries citing papers authored by Donald Nguyen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Donald Nguyen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Donald Nguyen. 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 Donald Nguyen. The network helps show where Donald Nguyen may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Donald Nguyen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Donald Nguyen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Donald Nguyen 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 Donald Nguyen. Donald Nguyen 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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Margot, Jean‐Luc, et al.. (2018). A Search for Technosignatures from 14 Planetary Systems in the Kepler Field with the Green Bank Telescope at 1.15–1.73 GHz. The Astronomical Journal. 155(5). 209–209. 7 indexed citations
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Paszyńska, Anna, Maciej Woźniak, Andrew Lenharth, Donald Nguyen, & Keshav Pingali. (2016). Hypergraph Grammars in Non-stationary hp- adaptive Finite Element Method. Procedia Computer Science. 80. 875–886. 2 indexed citations
3.
Maleki, Saeed, Donald Nguyen, Andrew Lenharth, et al.. (2016). DSMR. 1–14. 20 indexed citations
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Lenharth, Andrew, Donald Nguyen, & Keshav Pingali. (2016). Parallel graph analytics. Communications of the ACM. 59(5). 78–87. 34 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Donald, et al.. (2015). Kinetic Dependence Graphs. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 50(4). 457–471. 3 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Donald, et al.. (2015). Kinetic Dependence Graphs. 457–471. 8 indexed citations
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Paszyńska, Anna, Krzysztof Banaś, Maciej Paszyński, et al.. (2015). Telescopic Hybrid Fast Solver for 3D Elliptic Problems with Point Singularities. Procedia Computer Science. 51. 2744–2748. 1 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Donald, Andrew Lenharth, & Keshav Pingali. (2014). Deterministic galois. ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News. 42(1). 499–512. 1 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Donald, Andrew Lenharth, & Keshav Pingali. (2014). Deterministic galois. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 49(4). 499–512. 2 indexed citations
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Hassaan, M. Amber, Donald Nguyen, & Keshav Pingali. (2014). Parallelization of asynchronous variational integrators forshared memory architectures. 214–216. 1 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Donald, Andrew Lenharth, & Keshav Pingali. (2014). Deterministic galois. 499–512. 26 indexed citations
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Lenharth, Andrew, et al.. (2014). Parallelization of Reordering Algorithms for Bandwidth and Wavefront Reduction. 921–932. 24 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Donald, Andrew Lenharth, & Keshav Pingali. (2013). A lightweight infrastructure for graph analytics. 456–471. 391 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nguyen, Donald & Keshav Pingali. (2011). Synthesizing concurrent schedulers for irregular algorithms. 333–344. 23 indexed citations
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Pingali, Keshav, Donald Nguyen, Milind Kulkarni, et al.. (2011). The tao of parallelism in algorithms. 12–25. 188 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Donald & Keshav Pingali. (2011). Synthesizing concurrent schedulers for irregular algorithms. ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News. 39(1). 333–344. 1 indexed citations
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Kulkarni, Milind, Donald Nguyen, Dimitrios Prountzos, Xin Sui, & Keshav Pingali. (2011). Exploiting the commutativity lattice. 542–555. 30 indexed citations
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Méndez-Lojo, Mario, Donald Nguyen, Dimitrios Prountzos, et al.. (2010). Structure-driven optimizations for amorphous data-parallel programs. 3–14. 40 indexed citations
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Liao, Shih-Wei, et al.. (2009). Prefetch optimizations on large-scale applications via parameter value prediction. 519–520. 1 indexed citations
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Kulkarni, Milind, Dimitrios Prountzos, Donald Nguyen, & Keshav Pingali. (2009). Defining and Implementing Commutativity Conditions for Parallel Execution. Purdue e-Pubs (Purdue University System). 1 indexed citations

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