Timothy Tsai

2.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
39 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Timothy Tsai is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Hardware and Architecture. According to data from OpenAlex, Timothy Tsai has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 18 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 10 papers in Hardware and Architecture. Recurrent topics in Timothy Tsai's work include Radiation Effects in Electronics (19 papers), Distributed systems and fault tolerance (14 papers) and Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (9 papers). Timothy Tsai is often cited by papers focused on Radiation Effects in Electronics (19 papers), Distributed systems and fault tolerance (14 papers) and Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (9 papers). Timothy Tsai collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Timothy Tsai's co-authors include Ravishankar K. Iyer, Mei-Chen Hsueh, Siva Kumar Sastry Hari, Michael B. Sullivan, Stephen W. Keckler, Navjot Singh, A. Baratloo, Joel Emer, Karthik Pattabiraman and Guanpeng Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Computer, Journal of Medical Internet Research and IEEE Transactions on Computers.

In The Last Decade

Timothy Tsai

36 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Fault injection techniques and tools 1997 2026 2006 2016 1997 2017 100 200 300 400 500
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. Fault injection techniques and tools
    1997 553 citations Mei-Chen Hsueh, Timothy Tsai et al. Computer profile →
  2. Understanding error propagation in deep learning neural network (DNN) accelerators and applications
    2017 313 citations Guanpeng Li, Siva Kumar Sastry Hari 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
Timothy Tsai United States 15 974 635 616 562 473 39 1.8k
David Powell France 21 567 0.6× 267 0.4× 921 1.5× 592 1.1× 468 1.0× 71 1.7k
Siva Kumar Sastry Hari United States 24 1.4k 1.4× 564 0.9× 660 1.1× 878 1.6× 264 0.6× 50 2.0k
Semeen Rehman Germany 23 1.2k 1.2× 242 0.4× 411 0.7× 735 1.3× 81 0.2× 78 1.6k
Michael B. Sullivan United States 19 778 0.8× 389 0.6× 519 0.8× 603 1.1× 129 0.3× 48 1.3k
Mihalis Psarakis Greece 20 1.0k 1.1× 161 0.3× 428 0.7× 948 1.7× 140 0.3× 79 1.6k
Pierluigi Nuzzo United States 24 1.1k 1.1× 314 0.5× 222 0.4× 425 0.8× 213 0.5× 106 1.9k
Jaume Abella Spain 24 1.1k 1.2× 254 0.4× 937 1.5× 1.9k 3.4× 176 0.4× 240 2.6k
Aviral Shrivastava United States 25 815 0.8× 282 0.4× 1.1k 1.8× 1.5k 2.6× 85 0.2× 173 2.1k
Fei Xie United States 16 274 0.3× 160 0.3× 324 0.5× 307 0.5× 148 0.3× 110 951
Alireza Ejlali Iran 29 1.3k 1.3× 132 0.2× 966 1.6× 1.2k 2.2× 84 0.2× 137 2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Timothy Tsai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Timothy Tsai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Timothy Tsai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Timothy Tsai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Timothy Tsai 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 Timothy Tsai. Timothy Tsai 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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Li, Guanpeng, Siva Kumar Sastry Hari, Michael B. Sullivan, et al.. (2025). Understanding Error Propagation in Deep-Learning Neural Networks’ Accelerators and Applications. IEEE Design and Test. 42(3). 7–13.
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Senior, Rashaud, Timothy Tsai, William Ratliff, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of SNOMED CT Grouper Accuracy and Coverage in Organizing the Electronic Health Record Problem List by Clinical System: Observational Study. JMIR Medical Informatics. 12. e51274–e51274. 1 indexed citations
3.
Devon-Sand, Anna, et al.. (2024). Building Pandemic-Resilient Primary Care Systems: Lessons Learned From COVID-19. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 26. e47667–e47667. 1 indexed citations
4.
Fang, Bo, Cheng Tan, Siva Kumar Sastry Hari, et al.. (2024). Understanding Mixed Precision GEMM with MPGemmFI: Insights into Fault Resilience. 166–178. 2 indexed citations
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Sullivan, Michael B., N.R. Saxena, Mike O’Connor, et al.. (2021). Characterizing and Mitigating Soft Errors in GPU DRAM. ePubs (Science and Technology Facilities Council, Research Councils UK). 641–653. 23 indexed citations
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Tsai, Timothy, Siva Kumar Sastry Hari, Michael B. Sullivan, Oreste Villa, & Stephen W. Keckler. (2021). NVBitFI: Dynamic Fault Injection for GPUs. 284–291. 51 indexed citations
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Mahmoud, Abdulrahman, Siva Kumar Sastry Hari, Christopher W. Fletcher, et al.. (2021). Optimizing Selective Protection for CNN Resilience. 127–138. 26 indexed citations
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Li, Yiran, Saurabh Jha, Timothy Tsai, et al.. (2020). AV-FUZZER: Finding Safety Violations in Autonomous Driving Systems. 25–36. 109 indexed citations
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Li, Guanpeng, Karthik Pattabiraman, Siva Kumar Sastry Hari, Michael B. Sullivan, & Timothy Tsai. (2018). Modeling Soft-Error Propagation in Programs. 27–38. 60 indexed citations
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Mahmoud, Abdulrahman, Siva Kumar Sastry Hari, Michael B. Sullivan, Timothy Tsai, & Stephen W. Keckler. (2018). Optimizing Software-Directed Instruction Replication for GPU Error Detection. 842–854. 46 indexed citations
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Hari, Siva Kumar Sastry, Timothy Tsai, Mark W. Stephenson, Stephen W. Keckler, & Joel Emer. (2017). SASSIFI: An architecture-level fault injection tool for GPU application resilience evaluation. 249–258. 128 indexed citations
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Blagojević, Filip, et al.. (2013). Priority {IO} Scheduling in the Cloud. 6 indexed citations
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Liang, Deron, P. Emerald Chung, Yennun Huang, et al.. (2003). NT-SwiFT: software implemented fault tolerance on Windows NT. Journal of Systems and Software. 71(1-2). 127–141. 6 indexed citations
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Tsai, Timothy. (2002). Fault tolerance via N-modular software redundancy. 201–206. 11 indexed citations
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Tsai, Timothy & Navjot Singh. (2001). Libsafe 2.0: Detection of Format String Vulnerability Exploits. 9 indexed citations
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Baratloo, A., Navjot Singh, & Timothy Tsai. (2000). Transparent run-time defense against stack smashing attacks. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 21–21. 204 indexed citations
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Baratloo, A., et al.. (1999). Libsafe: Protecting Critical Elements of Stacks. 13 indexed citations
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Tsai, Timothy, et al.. (1999). Stress-based and path-based fault injection. IEEE Transactions on Computers. 48(11). 1183–1201. 39 indexed citations
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Hsueh, Mei-Chen, Timothy Tsai, & Ravishankar K. Iyer. (1997). Fault injection techniques and tools. Computer. 30(4). 75–82. 553 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tsai, Timothy & Ravishankar K. Iyer. (1994). FTAPE: A fault injection tool to measure fault tolerance. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 95. 25333.

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