Stephen Boyd

139.8k total citations · 32 hit papers
441 papers, 91.4k citations indexed

About

Stephen Boyd is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Numerical Analysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Boyd has authored 441 papers receiving a total of 91.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 143 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 109 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 82 papers in Numerical Analysis. Recurrent topics in Stephen Boyd's work include Advanced Optimization Algorithms Research (76 papers), Control Systems and Identification (64 papers) and Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques (62 papers). Stephen Boyd is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Optimization Algorithms Research (76 papers), Control Systems and Identification (64 papers) and Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques (62 papers). Stephen Boyd collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Switzerland. Stephen Boyd's co-authors include Lieven Vandenberghe, Lin Xiao, Emmanuel J. Candès, Seung-Jean Kim, Michael B. Wakin, Hervé Lebret, H. Hindi, Kwangmoo Koh, Sanjay Lall and T.H. Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Proceedings of the IEEE.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Boyd

426 papers receiving 87.1k citations

Hit Papers

Convex Optimization 1985 2026 1998 2012 2004 2010 2010 2008 1996 5.0k 10.0k 15.0k 20.0k
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. Convex Optimization
    2004 21.3k citations Stephen Boyd, Lieven Vandenberghe Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →
  2. Distributed Optimization and Statistical Learning via the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers
    2010 11.6k citations Stephen Boyd profile →
  3. Distributed Optimization and Statistical Learning via the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers
    2010 8.7k citations Stephen Boyd profile →
  4. Enhancing Sparsity by Reweighted ℓ 1 Minimization
    2008 3.4k citations Stephen Boyd et al. profile →
  5. Semidefinite Programming
    1996 2.9k citations Lieven Vandenberghe, Stephen Boyd profile →
  6. Fast linear iterations for distributed averaging
    2004 1.9k citations Lin Xiao, Stephen Boyd profile →
  7. Linear Matrix Inequalities in Systems and Control Theory
    1994 1.9k citations Stephen Boyd profile →
  8. Applications of second-order cone programming
    1998 1.8k citations Lieven Vandenberghe, Stephen Boyd et al. profile →
  9. Randomized gossip algorithms
    2006 1.6k citations Stephen Boyd et al. profile →
  10. An Interior-Point Method for Large-Scale -Regularized Least Squares
    2007 1.5k citations Stephen Boyd et al. profile →
  11. Proximal Algorithms
    2014 1.2k citations Stephen Boyd et al. profile →
  12. Simple accurate expressions for planar spiral inductances
    1999 1.2k citations Stephen Boyd, T.H. Lee et al. profile →
  13. Fast Model Predictive Control Using Online Optimization
    2009 1.0k citations Stephen Boyd et al. profile →
  14. Sensor Selection via Convex Optimization
    2008 919 citations Stephen Boyd et al. profile →
  15. Linear controller design: limits of performance
    1991 879 citations Stephen Boyd, C. Barratt Prentice-Hall, Inc eBooks profile →
  16. A scheme for robust distributed sensor fusion based on average consensus
    2005 871 citations Lin Xiao, Stephen Boyd et al. Information Processing in Sensor Networks profile →
  17. A tutorial on geometric programming
    2007 793 citations Stephen Boyd, Lieven Vandenberghe et al. Optimization and Engineering profile →
  18. Distributed average consensus with least-mean-square deviation
    2006 784 citations Lin Xiao, Stephen Boyd et al. profile →
  19. Iterative Water-Filling for Gaussian Vector Multiple-Access Channels
    2004 669 citations Stephen Boyd et al. profile →
  20. Fading memory and the problem of approximating nonlinear operators with Volterra series
    1985 665 citations Stephen Boyd et al. profile →
  21. OSQP: an operator splitting solver for quadratic programs
    2020 643 citations Alberto Bemporad, Stephen Boyd et al. profile →
  22. A rank minimization heuristic with application to minimum order system approximation
    2001 614 citations Stephen Boyd et al. profile →
  23. CVXGEN: a code generator for embedded convex optimization
    2011 592 citations Stephen Boyd et al. Optimization and Engineering profile →
  24. A scheme for robust distributed sensor fusion based on average consensus
    2005 580 citations Lin Xiao, Stephen Boyd et al. profile →
  25. Robust minimum variance beamforming
    2005 567 citations Stephen Boyd et al. profile →
  26. Variations and extension of the convex–concave procedure
    2015 517 citations Stephen Boyd et al. Optimization and Engineering profile →
  27. Optimal power control in interference-limited fading wireless channels with outage-probability specifications
    2002 487 citations Stephen Boyd et al. profile →
  28. ECOS: An SOCP solver for embedded systems
    2013 430 citations Eric Chu, Stephen Boyd et al. profile →
  29. $\ell_1$ Trend Filtering
    2009 405 citations Stephen Boyd et al. profile →
  30. Log-det heuristic for matrix rank minimization with applications to Hankel and Euclidean distance matrices
    2004 398 citations Stephen Boyd et al. profile →
  31. Conic Optimization via Operator Splitting and Homogeneous Self-Dual Embedding
    2016 298 citations Brendan O’Donoghue, Eric Chu et al. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications profile →
  32. Model-Based Deep Learning: On the Intersection of Deep Learning and Optimization
    2022 118 citations Stephen Boyd 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
Stephen Boyd United States 99 26.8k 23.9k 19.4k 16.9k 14.0k 441 91.4k
H. Vincent Poor United States 144 72.8k 2.7× 46.7k 2.0× 8.4k 0.4× 4.4k 0.3× 17.2k 1.2× 2.3k 103.1k
James Kennedy United States 23 17.2k 0.6× 7.3k 0.3× 16.4k 0.8× 2.0k 0.1× 32.3k 2.3× 38 77.0k
Dimitri P. Bertsekas United States 73 11.4k 0.4× 16.5k 0.7× 7.6k 0.4× 5.1k 0.3× 8.8k 0.6× 262 45.9k
Georgios B. Giannakis United States 115 33.1k 1.2× 25.2k 1.1× 5.6k 0.3× 6.6k 0.4× 7.4k 0.5× 1.1k 50.1k
S. Haykin Canada 61 17.0k 0.6× 15.3k 0.6× 4.1k 0.2× 7.8k 0.5× 9.5k 0.7× 330 42.3k
Yann LeCun United States 67 14.4k 0.5× 4.8k 0.2× 6.4k 0.3× 4.5k 0.3× 48.5k 3.5× 192 133.0k
R.C. Eberhart United States 21 14.9k 0.6× 6.1k 0.3× 14.5k 0.7× 1.7k 0.1× 27.6k 2.0× 48 65.1k
David L. Donoho United States 95 12.2k 0.5× 5.8k 0.2× 4.7k 0.2× 45.1k 2.7× 8.4k 0.6× 227 101.0k
Seyedali Mirjalili Australia 112 21.2k 0.8× 8.7k 0.4× 15.2k 0.8× 1.7k 0.1× 50.6k 3.6× 551 99.6k
T. Kailath United States 86 9.4k 0.3× 4.8k 0.2× 8.4k 0.4× 7.4k 0.4× 6.1k 0.4× 571 40.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Boyd

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kochenderfer, Mykel J., et al.. (2024). Approximate sequential optimization for informative path planning. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 182. 104814–104814. 4 indexed citations
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Boyd, Stephen, et al.. (2024). Polyak Minorant Method for Convex Optimization. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications. 203(3). 2263–2282. 1 indexed citations
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Boyd, Stephen, et al.. (2024). Robust Bond Portfolio Construction via Convex–Concave Saddle Point Optimization. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications. 201(3). 1089–1115. 1 indexed citations
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Boyd, Stephen, et al.. (2024). Portfolio Optimization with Cumulative Prospect Theory Utility via Convex Optimization. Computational Economics. 64(5). 3027–3047. 4 indexed citations
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Barratt, Shane, et al.. (2023). Convex optimization over risk-neutral probabilities. Optimization and Engineering. 25(1). 283–299.
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Bemporad, Alberto, Valentina Breschi, Dario Piga, & Stephen Boyd. (2018). Fitting jump models. Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha). 38 indexed citations
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Udell, Madeleine & Stephen Boyd. (2016). Bounding duality gap for separable problems with linear constraints. Computational Optimization and Applications. 64(2). 355–378. 19 indexed citations
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Ali, Alnur, J. Zico Kolter, Steven Diamond, & Stephen Boyd. (2015). Disciplined convex stochastic programming: a new framework for stochastic optimization. Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence. 62–71. 6 indexed citations
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O’Donoghue, Brendan, et al.. (2013). Operator Splitting for Conic Optimization via Homogeneous Self-Dual Embedding. arXiv (Cornell University). 20 indexed citations
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Choi, Kihwan, Jing Wang, Lei Zhu, et al.. (2010). Compressed sensing based cone‐beam computed tomography reconstruction with a first‐order methoda). Medical Physics. 37(9). 5113–5125. 192 indexed citations
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Ghosh, Arpita & Stephen Boyd. (2006). Growing Well-connected Graphs. 6605–6611. 245 indexed citations
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Xiao, Lin, Stephen Boyd, & Sanjay Lall. (2005). A scheme for robust distributed sensor fusion based on average consensus. Information Processing in Sensor Networks. 9. 871 indexed citations breakdown →
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Boyd, Stephen & Lieven Vandenberghe. (2004). Convex Optimization. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 21295 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hassibi, Arjang, Jonathan P. How, & Stephen Boyd. (2002). Low-authority controller design via convex optimization. 1. 140–145. 33 indexed citations
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Simunic, T. & Stephen Boyd. (2002). Managing power consumption in networks on chips. Design, Automation, and Test in Europe. 110–116. 48 indexed citations
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Boyd, Stephen, et al.. (2001). Optimal design of a CMOS op-amp via geometric programming. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 20(1). 1–21. 399 indexed citations
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Wu, Shao-Po & Stephen Boyd. (1999). sdpsol: a parse/solver for semidefinite programs with matrix structure. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics eBooks. 79–91. 21 indexed citations
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Vandenberghe, Lieven, Stephen Boyd, & Abbas El Gamal. (1997). Optimal wire and transistor sizing for circuits with non-tree topology. International Conference on Computer Aided Design. 252–259. 22 indexed citations
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Boyd, Stephen & C. Barratt. (1991). Linear controller design: limits of performance. Prentice-Hall, Inc eBooks. 879 indexed citations breakdown →

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