Sara Achour

750 total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 494 citations indexed

About

Sara Achour is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hardware and Architecture and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara Achour has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 494 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 11 papers in Hardware and Architecture and 7 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Sara Achour's work include Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (12 papers), Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (9 papers) and Low-power high-performance VLSI design (6 papers). Sara Achour is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (12 papers), Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (9 papers) and Low-power high-performance VLSI design (6 papers). Sara Achour collaborates with scholars based in United States. Sara Achour's co-authors include Martin Rinard, Fan Long, Michael Carbin, Saša Misailovíc, Rahul Sarpeshkar, Tathagata Srimani, Mark Horowitz, Boris Murmann, Samuel H. Fuller and Robert M. Radway and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages and IEEE Design and Test.

In The Last Decade

Sara Achour

20 papers receiving 478 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.

An analysis of patch plausibility and correctness for generate-and-validate patch generation systems

2015 262 citations Fan Long, Sara Achour et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sara Achour United States	7	257	203	179	153	105	25	494
Jianhua Zhao China	10	102 0.4×	95 0.5×	101 0.6×	119 0.8×	121 1.2×	44	340
Lucian Cojocar Netherlands	5	304 1.2×	166 0.8×	100 0.6×	100 0.7×	79 0.8×	6	545
Swarup Kumar Sahoo United States	9	155 0.6×	105 0.5×	322 1.8×	265 1.7×	233 2.2×	19	518
Andrea Calvagna Italy	10	155 0.6×	81 0.4×	74 0.4×	23 0.2×	124 1.2×	35	283
Akash Lal India	13	182 0.7×	85 0.4×	27 0.2×	144 0.9×	139 1.3×	54	430
D.R. Avresky United States	12	60 0.2×	90 0.4×	132 0.7×	101 0.7×	360 3.4×	65	450
Guei-Yuan Lueh United States	11	77 0.3×	105 0.5×	104 0.6×	583 3.8×	358 3.4×	31	680
Insu Yun United States	9	238 0.9×	169 0.8×	54 0.3×	152 1.0×	215 2.0×	17	557
Behçet Sarikaya Canada	10	98 0.4×	32 0.2×	146 0.8×	62 0.4×	223 2.1×	65	339

Countries citing papers authored by Sara Achour

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sara Achour

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara Achour

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Kjølstad, Fredrik, et al.. (2025). A Probabilistic Perspective on Tiling Sparse Tensor Algebra. 795–808.

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Lee, Chae Young, et al.. (2025). Early Termination for Hyperdimensional Computing Using Inferential Statistics. 342–360. 1 indexed citations

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Achour, Sara. (2025). Towards Design Optimization of Analog Compute Systems. 857–864. 1 indexed citations

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Lee, Chae Young, et al.. (2025). HyperCam: Low-Power Onboard Computer Vision for IoT Cameras. 529–542.

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Ni, Xiongwei, et al.. (2025). Open-ALOE: An Analog Layout Automation Flow for the Open-Source Ecosystem. 1–6. 1 indexed citations

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Achour, Sara, et al.. (2025). Efficient Optimization with Encoded Ising Models. 85–98.

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Wong, H.‐S. Philip, et al.. (2024). Bitwise Adaptive Early Termination in Hyperdimensional Computing Inference. 1–6.

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Achour, Sara, et al.. (2024). Leveraging Generative AI for Rapid Design and Verification of a Vector Processor SoC. IEEE Design and Test. 41(6). 8–18. 2 indexed citations

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Achour, Sara, et al.. (2023). Hardware-Aware Static Optimization of Hyperdimensional Computations. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages. 7(OOPSLA2). 1–30. 1 indexed citations

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Radway, Robert M., et al.. (2023). PBA: Percentile-Based Level Allocation for Multiple-Bits-Per-Cell RRAM. 1 indexed citations

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Achour, Sara & Martin Rinard. (2020). Noise-Aware Dynamical System Compilation for Analog Devices with Legno. 149–166. 6 indexed citations

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Achour, Sara & Martin Rinard. (2018). Time Dilation and Contraction for Programmable Analog Devices with Jaunt. 229–242. 2 indexed citations

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Achour, Sara & Martin Rinard. (2018). Time Dilation and Contraction for Programmable Analog Devices with Jaunt. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 53(2). 229–242. 1 indexed citations

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Achour, Sara, Rahul Sarpeshkar, & Martin Rinard. (2016). Configuration synthesis for programmable analog devices with Arco. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 51(6). 177–193. 7 indexed citations

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Long, Fan, et al.. (2015). An analysis of patch plausibility and correctness for generate-and-validate patch generation systems. 24–36. 262 indexed citations breakdown →

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Long, Fan, et al.. (2015). An Analysis of Patch Plausibility and Correctness for Generate-And-Validate Patch Generation Systems (Supplementary Material). DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations

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Achour, Sara & Martin Rinard. (2015). Approximate computation with outlier detection in Topaz. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 50(10). 711–730. 6 indexed citations

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Achour, Sara & Martin Rinard. (2015). Approximate computation with outlier detection in Topaz. 711–730. 18 indexed citations

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Misailovíc, Saša, et al.. (2014). Chisel. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 49(10). 309–328. 43 indexed citations

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Misailovíc, Saša, et al.. (2014). Chisel: Reliability- and Accuracy-Aware Optimization of Approximate Computational Kernels. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 21 indexed citations

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