Josh Tobin

5.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
7 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Josh Tobin is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence and Hardware and Architecture. According to data from OpenAlex, Josh Tobin has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 3 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 2 papers in Hardware and Architecture. Recurrent topics in Josh Tobin's work include Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (2 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (2 papers) and Graph theory and applications (1 paper). Josh Tobin is often cited by papers focused on Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (2 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (2 papers) and Graph theory and applications (1 paper). Josh Tobin collaborates with scholars based in United States and Spain. Josh Tobin's co-authors include Jonas Schneider, Wojciech Zaremba, Pieter Abbeel, Bowen Baker, Rafał Józefowicz, Matthias Plappert, Peter Welinder, Jakub Pachocki, Lilian Weng and Arthur J Petron and has published in prestigious journals such as The International Journal of Robotics Research, Future Generation Computer Systems and Advances in Applied Mathematics.

In The Last Decade

Josh Tobin

7 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Domain randomization for transferring deep neural networks from simulation to the real world

2017 1.5k citations Josh Tobin, Jonas Schneider et al. profile →
Learning dexterous in-hand manipulation

2019 896 citations Bowen Baker, Rafał Józefowicz et al. The International Journal of Robotics Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Josh Tobin United States	7	1.1k	1.0k	801	513	277	7	2.4k
Jonas Schneider Germany	12	1.1k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	844 1.1×	525 1.0×	281 1.0×	21	2.9k
Chelsea Finn United States	23	1.5k 1.4×	1.1k 1.1×	964 1.2×	396 0.8×	191 0.7×	94	2.9k
Prahlad Vadakkepat Singapore	26	708 0.7×	629 0.6×	872 1.1×	461 0.9×	349 1.3×	120	2.5k
Wojciech Zaremba United States	12	2.2k 2.1×	1.1k 1.1×	1.5k 1.8×	562 1.1×	312 1.1×	18	4.2k
Marc Toussaint Germany	30	1.6k 1.5×	1.4k 1.3×	1.1k 1.4×	384 0.7×	270 1.0×	159	3.5k
Xuguang Lan China	16	600 0.6×	471 0.5×	1.8k 2.2×	350 0.7×	246 0.9×	102	3.0k
Rafał Józefowicz Poland	7	1.1k 1.0×	605 0.6×	531 0.7×	329 0.6×	78 0.3×	10	2.4k
Abdullah Al Mamun Singapore	24	451 0.4×	867 0.9×	318 0.4×	276 0.5×	203 0.7×	156	2.1k
Jiajun Wu United States	29	716 0.7×	472 0.5×	2.0k 2.5×	216 0.4×	212 0.8×	125	3.2k
Javier Ruiz‐del‐Solar Chile	27	440 0.4×	368 0.4×	1.1k 1.4×	279 0.5×	258 0.9×	143	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Josh Tobin

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Fields of papers citing papers by Josh Tobin

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Josh Tobin

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Josh Tobin. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Josh Tobin 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 Josh Tobin. Josh Tobin is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Baker, Bowen, Rafał Józefowicz, Bob McGrew, et al.. (2019). Learning dexterous in-hand manipulation. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 39(1). 3–20. 896 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chung, Fan, et al.. (2018). The maximum relaxation time of a random walk. Advances in Applied Mathematics. 101. 1–14. 8 indexed citations

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Tobin, Josh, et al.. (2017). Domain randomization for transferring deep neural networks from simulation to the real world. 23–30. 1470 indexed citations breakdown →

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Durán, Alejandro, et al.. (2017). Multi-level spatial and temporal tiling for efficient HPC stencil computation on many-core processors with large shared caches. Future Generation Computer Systems. 92. 903–919. 11 indexed citations

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Chung, Fan & Josh Tobin. (2017). The Spectral Gap of Graphs Arising From Substring Reversals. The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics. 24(3). 9 indexed citations

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Tobin, Josh, et al.. (2016). YASK—Yet Another Stencil Kernel: A Framework for HPC Stencil Code-Generation and Tuning. 30–39. 32 indexed citations

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Cox, Christopher, et al.. (2015). How to Make the Perfect Fireworks Display: Two Strategies forHanabi. Mathematics Magazine. 88(5). 323–336. 14 indexed citations

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