William Thies

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
91 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

William Thies is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Hardware and Architecture. According to data from OpenAlex, William Thies has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 37 papers in Information Systems and 30 papers in Hardware and Architecture. Recurrent topics in William Thies's work include ICT in Developing Communities (32 papers), Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (30 papers) and Embedded Systems Design Techniques (24 papers). William Thies is often cited by papers focused on ICT in Developing Communities (32 papers), Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (30 papers) and Embedded Systems Design Techniques (24 papers). William Thies collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and France. William Thies's co-authors include Saman Amarasinghe, Michael I. Gordon, Edward Cutrell, Indrani Medhi, John Paul Urbanski, Todd Thorsen, Michal Karczmarek, Aditya Vashistha, Emma Brunskill and Nicola Dell and has published in prestigious journals such as Lab on a Chip, BMC Bioinformatics and BMC Infectious Diseases.

In The Last Decade

William Thies

90 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

Exploiting coarse-grained task, data, and pipeline parall... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 100 200 300

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Thies United States 26 1.3k 1.2k 1.0k 540 347 91 3.2k
Franziska Roesner United States 27 1.2k 1.0× 504 0.4× 1.3k 1.3× 1.5k 2.8× 56 0.2× 89 4.5k
Jeffrey V. Nickerson United States 23 275 0.2× 200 0.2× 425 0.4× 272 0.5× 345 1.0× 134 3.2k
Christoph Meinel Germany 32 1.1k 0.8× 190 0.2× 1.3k 1.3× 308 0.6× 101 0.3× 475 4.9k
John Maloney United States 18 427 0.3× 361 0.3× 1.1k 1.1× 113 0.2× 90 0.3× 31 4.5k
Harold Abelson United States 18 478 0.4× 231 0.2× 414 0.4× 135 0.3× 67 0.2× 44 2.5k
Lori Pollock United States 35 1.4k 1.1× 451 0.4× 3.2k 3.1× 431 0.8× 15 0.0× 202 4.7k
Philip J. Guo United States 35 680 0.5× 233 0.2× 2.5k 2.4× 105 0.2× 107 0.3× 93 5.7k
Simon Jones United Kingdom 26 783 0.6× 1.1k 0.9× 496 0.5× 112 0.2× 71 0.2× 111 3.4k
Mark Claypool United States 29 2.0k 1.5× 231 0.2× 1.2k 1.1× 556 1.0× 25 0.1× 168 4.1k
Stefanos Gritzalis Greece 32 1.8k 1.4× 122 0.1× 1.5k 1.4× 527 1.0× 78 0.2× 230 3.7k

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All Works

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Thies, William, et al.. (2023). “Is it Even Giving the Correct Reading or Not?”: How Trust and Relationships Mediate Blood Pressure Management in India. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 30(6). 1–27. 2 indexed citations
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Kumar, Ravinder, et al.. (2023). Impact of the 99DOTS digital adherence technology on tuberculosis treatment outcomes in North India: a pre-post study. BMC Infectious Diseases. 23(1). 504–504. 11 indexed citations
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Subbaraman, Ramnath, Beena Thomas, William Thies, et al.. (2021). Measuring tuberculosis medication adherence: a comparison of multiple approaches in relation to urine isoniazid metabolite testing within a cohort study in India. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 8(11). ofab532–ofab532. 13 indexed citations
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Mothilal, Ramaravind Kommiya, et al.. (2019). Learnings from an Ongoing Deployment of an IVR-based Platform for Voter Awareness. 257–261. 2 indexed citations
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Cutrell, Edward, et al.. (2019). Learn2Earn. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 3(CSCW). 1–20. 17 indexed citations
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Cross, Andrew, et al.. (2013). TypeRighting. 793–796. 23 indexed citations
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Vashistha, Aditya & William Thies. (2012). {IVR} Junction: Building Scalable and Distributed Voice Forums in the Developing World. 22 indexed citations
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Paruthi, Mandakini, et al.. (2012). Mapping Large Educational Websites to Interactive DVDs. 196–199.
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Udupa, Abhishek, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, & William Thies. (2012). ALTER. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 47(6). 480–480. 1 indexed citations
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Anderson, Richard & William Thies. (2011). Proceedings of the 5th ACM workshop on Networked systems for developing regions. 3 indexed citations
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Ananthanarayanan, Vaishnavi & William Thies. (2010). BioCoder: A programming language for standardizing and automating biology protocols. Journal of Biological Engineering. 4(1). 13–13. 52 indexed citations
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Thies, William, John Paul Urbanski, Todd Thorsen, & Saman Amarasinghe. (2007). Abstraction layers for scalable microfluidic biocomputing. Natural Computing. 7(2). 255–275. 128 indexed citations
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Gordon, Michael I., William Thies, & Saman Amarasinghe. (2006). Exploiting coarse-grained task, data, and pipeline parallelism in stream programs. 151–162. 351 indexed citations breakdown →
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Thies, William, John Paul Urbanski, Todd Thorsen, & Saman Amarasinghe. (2006). Abstraction Layers for Scalable Microfluidic Biocomputers (Extended Version). DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations
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Urbanski, John Paul, William Thies, Christopher P. Rhodes, Saman Amarasinghe, & Todd Thorsen. (2005). Digital microfluidics using soft lithography. Lab on a Chip. 6(1). 96–104. 134 indexed citations
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Chen, Jiawen, Michael I. Gordon, William Thies, et al.. (2005). A reconfigurable architecture for load-balanced rendering. 71–80. 10 indexed citations
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Karczmarek, Michal, William Thies, & Saman Amarasinghe. (2003). Phased scheduling of stream programs. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 38(7). 103–112. 22 indexed citations
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Lamb, Andrew A., William Thies, & Saman Amarasinghe. (2003). Linear analysis and optimization of stream programs. 12–25. 20 indexed citations
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Lamb, Andrew A., William Thies, & Saman Amarasinghe. (2003). Linear analysis and optimization of stream programs. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 38(5). 12–25. 19 indexed citations
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Thies, William, et al.. (2002). Searching the World Wide Web in Low-Connectivity Communities. 33 indexed citations

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