John Regehr

4.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
88 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

John Regehr is a scholar working on Hardware and Architecture, Artificial Intelligence and Software. According to data from OpenAlex, John Regehr has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Hardware and Architecture, 28 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 28 papers in Software. Recurrent topics in John Regehr's work include Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (41 papers), Real-Time Systems Scheduling (31 papers) and Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (27 papers). John Regehr is often cited by papers focused on Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (41 papers), Real-Time Systems Scheduling (31 papers) and Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (27 papers). John Regehr collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and South Korea. John Regehr's co-authors include Eric Eide, Xuejun Yang, Yang Chen, Yang Chen, J.A. Stankovic, Alastair Reid, Alex Groce, Chaoqiang Zhang, Nuno P. Lopes and Chucky Ellison and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, ACM SIGPLAN Notices and ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.

In The Last Decade

John Regehr

84 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

Finding and understanding bugs in C compilers 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2011 100 200 300 400
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. Finding and understanding bugs in C compilers
    2011 483 citations Xuejun Yang, Yang Chen et al. profile →
  2. Finding and understanding bugs in C compilers
    2011 371 citations Xuejun Yang, Eric Eide et al. ACM SIGPLAN Notices profile →

Peers

John Regehr
Andy Chou United States
Eric Eide United States
Seth Hallem United States
George Candea Switzerland
Cristian Cadar United Kingdom
Jong-Deok Choi United States
Jack W. Davidson United States
Klaus Havelund United States
Shaz Qadeer United States
Santosh Nagarakatte United States
Andy Chou United States
John Regehr
Citations per year, relative to John Regehr John Regehr (= 1×) peers Andy Chou

Countries citing papers authored by John Regehr

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Regehr

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Regehr

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John Regehr. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John Regehr 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 John Regehr. John Regehr 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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Regehr, John, et al.. (2024). Minotaur: A SIMD-Oriented Synthesizing Superoptimizer. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages. 8(OOPSLA2). 1561–1585. 2 indexed citations
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Regehr, John, et al.. (2020). Dataflow-based pruning for speeding up superoptimization. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages. 4(OOPSLA). 1–24. 13 indexed citations
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Lopes, Nuno P., et al.. (2018). Practical verification of peephole optimizations with Alive. Communications of the ACM. 61(2). 84–91. 9 indexed citations
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Regehr, John & А. А. Бурцев. (2013). Deterministic systems analysis. 1 indexed citations
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Groce, Alex, Chaoqiang Zhang, Mohammad Amin Alipour, et al.. (2013). Help, help, i'm being suppressed! The significance of suppressors in software testing. 390–399. 8 indexed citations
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Regehr, John, Yang Chen, Pascal Cuoq, et al.. (2012). Test-case reduction for C compiler bugs. 335–346. 215 indexed citations
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Yang, Xuejun, Yang Chen, Eric Eide, & John Regehr. (2011). Finding and understanding bugs in C compilers. 283–294. 483 indexed citations breakdown →
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Regehr, John, et al.. (2010). Correctness proofs for device drivers in embedded systems. International Conference on Systems. 5–5. 5 indexed citations
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Chen, Yang, Omprakash Gnawali, Maria Kazandjieva, Philip Levis, & John Regehr. (2009). Surviving sensor network software faults. 235–246. 45 indexed citations
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Eide, Eric & John Regehr. (2008). Volatiles are miscompiled, and what to do about it. 255–264. 42 indexed citations
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Levis, Philip, et al.. (2007). Interface contracts for TinyOS. 158–158. 26 indexed citations
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Eide, Eric, et al.. (2007). Efficient memory safety for TinyOS. 205–218. 76 indexed citations
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Regehr, John, et al.. (2006). Deriving abstract transfer functions for analyzing embedded software. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 41(7). 34–43. 3 indexed citations
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Regehr, John, et al.. (2005). Preventing interrupt overload. 50–58. 30 indexed citations
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Funk, Shelby, Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela, Joël Goossens, & John Regehr. (2004). Heuristics for restricting EDF migration uniform multiprocessors. Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles). 2 indexed citations
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Regehr, John. (2002). Inferring Scheduling Behavior with Hourglass. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 143–156. 24 indexed citations
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Regehr, John, Alastair Reid, Kirk Webb, & Jay Lepreau. (2002). Composable Execution Environments. 1 indexed citations
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Regehr, John, et al.. (2002). Real-Time for the Real World. 1 indexed citations
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Jones, Michael B. & John Regehr. (2000). Predictable Scheduling for Digital Audio. 12. 3 indexed citations
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Regehr, John, Michael B. Jones, & John A. Stankovic. (2000). Operating System Support for Multimedia: The Programming Model Matters. 13. 19 indexed citations

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