Shaolei Ren

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
193 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Shaolei Ren is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Shaolei Ren has authored 193 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 121 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 79 papers in Information Systems and 69 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Shaolei Ren's work include Cloud Computing and Resource Management (68 papers), Caching and Content Delivery (33 papers) and IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (31 papers). Shaolei Ren is often cited by papers focused on Cloud Computing and Resource Management (68 papers), Caching and Content Delivery (33 papers) and IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (31 papers). Shaolei Ren collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and China. Shaolei Ren's co-authors include Jie Xu, Mihaela van der Schaar, Mohammad A. Islam, Lixing Chen, Nguyen H. Tran, Choong Seon Hong, Шломо Мелмед, Yuxiong He, Chuan Pham and Adam Wierman and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Investigation, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Shaolei Ren

183 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Online Learning for Offloading and Autoscaling in Energy Harvesting Mobile Edge Computing

2017 295 citations Jie Xu, Shaolei Ren et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shaolei Ren United States	33	2.0k	1.5k	1.3k	341	312	193	3.6k
Farrukh Aslam Khan Saudi Arabia	37	1.9k 1.0×	860 0.6×	753 0.6×	1.1k 3.4×	447 1.4×	149	4.2k
Weizheng Wang China	37	1.3k 0.6×	793 0.5×	1.5k 1.2×	1.5k 4.5×	231 0.7×	176	4.4k
Andrea Acquaviva Italy	32	992 0.5×	1.4k 0.9×	186 0.1×	424 1.2×	261 0.8×	208	3.1k
Zhihui Lu China	31	1.0k 0.5×	406 0.3×	933 0.7×	635 1.9×	84 0.3×	165	2.9k
Martin Maier Canada	40	1.8k 0.9×	4.1k 2.7×	360 0.3×	191 0.6×	496 1.6×	215	5.6k
Maria Fazio Italy	27	1.6k 0.8×	408 0.3×	1.1k 0.9×	355 1.0×	107 0.3×	212	3.0k
Chen Tian China	35	3.4k 1.7×	1.2k 0.8×	2.1k 1.7×	294 0.9×	91 0.3×	239	7.3k
Dakai Zhu United States	34	2.0k 1.0×	795 0.5×	625 0.5×	205 0.6×	66 0.2×	139	3.8k
Chunyi Peng China	29	1.7k 0.9×	1.9k 1.2×	384 0.3×	192 0.6×	37 0.1×	135	3.5k
Enrico Macii Italy	40	1.5k 0.8×	4.3k 2.8×	173 0.1×	1.1k 3.2×	318 1.0×	556	7.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Shaolei Ren

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shaolei Ren

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shaolei Ren

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Shaolei Ren. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Shaolei Ren 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 Shaolei Ren. Shaolei Ren 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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Ren, Shaolei, et al.. (2025). ARCS: Adaptive Reinforcement Learning Framework for Automated Cybersecurity Incident Response Strategy Optimization. Applied Sciences. 15(2). 951–951. 3 indexed citations

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Ren, Shaolei, et al.. (2025). Large Language Models for Cybersecurity Intelligence, Threat Hunting, and Decision Support. 13(3). 39–47.

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Ren, Shaolei, et al.. (2024). Temporal Logical Attention Network for Log-Based Anomaly Detection in Distributed Systems. Sensors. 24(24). 7949–7949. 4 indexed citations

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Ren, Shaolei, Bill Tomlinson, Rebecca W. Black, & Andrew W. Torrance. (2024). Reconciling the contrasting narratives on the environmental impact of large language models. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 26310–26310. 17 indexed citations

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Ren, Shaolei, et al.. (2024). CAFE: Carbon-Aware Federated Learning in Geographically Distributed Data Centers✱. 347–360. 7 indexed citations

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Yang, Jianyi, et al.. (2024). Online Allocation with Replenishable Budgets: Worst Case and Beyond. Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems. 8(1). 1–34.

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Yang, Jianyi, et al.. (2024). Towards Environmentally Equitable AI via Geographical Load Balancing. 291–307. 9 indexed citations

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Islam, Mohammad A., et al.. (2021). Heat Behind the Meter: A Hidden Threat of Thermal Attacks in Edge Colocation Data Centers. 318–331. 8 indexed citations

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Islam, Mohammad A., et al.. (2020). Your Noise, My Signal. 79–80. 4 indexed citations

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Yang, Jianyi, et al.. (2020). Increasing the Trustworthiness of Deep Neural Networks via Accuracy Monitoring.. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2 indexed citations

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Islam, Mohammad A., et al.. (2015). A Contract Design Approach for Colocation Data Center Demand Response. International Conference on Computer Aided Design. 635–640. 6 indexed citations

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Fan, Ming, et al.. (2015). Power minimization for data center with guaranteed QoS. Design, Automation, and Test in Europe. 1347–1352.

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Niu, Linwei, et al.. (2015). Multi-core fixed-priority scheduling of real-time tasks with statistical deadline guarantee. Design, Automation, and Test in Europe. 1335–1340. 11 indexed citations

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Islam, Mohammad A., et al.. (2014). Exploiting Temporal Diversity of Water Efficiency to Make Data Center Less "Thirsty". 145–152. 3 indexed citations

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Ren, Shaolei & Mohammad A. Islam. (2014). Colocation Demand Response: Why Do I Turn Off My Servers?. 201–208. 49 indexed citations

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Ren, Shaolei, Yuxiong He, Sameh Elnikety, & Kathryn S. McKinley. (2013). Exploiting Processor Heterogeneity in Interactive Services. 45–58. 33 indexed citations

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Zhao, Weijiang & Shaolei Ren. (2011). Neuregulin-1 (Nrg1) is Mainly Expressed in Rat Pituitary Gonadotroph Cells and Possibly Regulates Prolactin (PRL) Secretion in a Juxtacrine Manner. Journal of Neuroendocrinology. 23(12). 1252–1262. 17 indexed citations

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Ren, Shaolei, et al.. (1996). Hypothalamic and pituitary leukemia inhibitory factor gene expression in vivo: a novel endotoxin-inducible neuro-endocrine interface.. Endocrinology. 137(7). 2947–2953. 90 indexed citations

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Akita, Sadanori, Jonathan Webster, Shaolei Ren, et al.. (1995). Human and murine pituitary expression of leukemia inhibitory factor. Novel intrapituitary regulation of adrenocorticotropin hormone synthesis and secretion.. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 95(3). 1288–1298. 116 indexed citations

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Ren, Shaolei & Glenn D. Braunstein. (1991). Decidua produces a protein that inhibits choriogonadotrophin release from human trophoblasts.. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 87(1). 326–330. 9 indexed citations

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