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Ajay Kshemkalyani

Distributed Algorithms Concurrent Systems Computer Networks Distributed Computing
University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) Computer Science

About

Ajay Kshemkalyani received the BTech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, in 1987, and the MS and PhD degrees in Computer and Information Science from The Ohio State University in 1988 and 1991, respectively. He spent six years at IBM Research Triangle Park working on various aspects of computer networks, before joining academia. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research interests are in distributed computing, distributed algorithms, computer networks, and concurrent systems, and he has published over 100 articles in top-quality journals and conferences in these areas. In 1999, he received the National Science Foundation Career Award. He has served in various positions (such as general chair, program co-chair, steering committee member, or program committee member) for international conferences such as IEEE ICDCS, IEEE SRDS, ACM PODC, and ICDCN. He served on the editorial board of the Elsevier journal, Computer Networks and IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. He has co-authored a book entitled Distributed Computing: Principles, Algorithms, and Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2008). He is a Distinguished Scientist of the ACM and a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Research Performance Summary

182
Total Papers
5196
Total Citations
33
H-Index
1989-2025
Active Research Span

First Recorded Paper

Characterization of Global Snapshots and a Survey of Global Snapshot Algorithms

Year: 1989

Citations: 1

Venue: Ohio State University, Computer and Information Science Research Center

Latest Recorded Paper

Byzantine-tolerant detection of causality: There is no holy grail

Year: 2025

Citations: 0

Venue: Parallel Computing 124

Last 10 Years Publication Activity

This timeline shows the professor's yearly publication activity.

2025
13
2024
7
2023
5
2022
7
2021
5
2020
9
2019
4
2018
7
2017
1
2016
2
2015
5

Publication Venues and Collaboration

Journal, Conference, and Book Publication Breakdown

Conference 97
Journal 42
Book 7

Top Coauthors

Kshemkalyani Singhal Misra

Research Impact by Period

2025-2026

Period Stats
Papers 13
Citations 66
Avg. Citations / Paper 5.1
H-Index 3

2020-2024

Period Stats
Papers 33
Citations 370
Avg. Citations / Paper 11.2
H-Index 11

2015-2019

Period Stats
Papers 19
Citations 349
Avg. Citations / Paper 18.4
H-Index 10

2010-2014

Period Stats
Papers 25
Citations 1075
Avg. Citations / Paper 43
H-Index 9

2005-2009

Period Stats
Papers 23
Citations 1664
Avg. Citations / Paper 72.3
H-Index 9

2000-2004

Period Stats
Papers 31
Citations 636
Avg. Citations / Paper 20.5
H-Index 13

1995-1999

Period Stats
Papers 30
Citations 619
Avg. Citations / Paper 20.6
H-Index 11

1990-1994

Period Stats
Papers 7
Citations 416
Avg. Citations / Paper 59.4
H-Index 5

1985-1989

Period Stats
Papers 1
Citations 1
Avg. Citations / Paper 1
H-Index 1

Contact and Professional Links

Contact Information

ajay@uic.edu
3123551309

Detected Research Keywords

Dispersion Mobile Robots Byzantine Fault Tolerant Fault Tolerant Causal Causal Message Ordering Distributed Mutual Exclusion Tolerant Causal Ordering Presence Byzantine Processes Encoded Vector Clock Fair Distributed Mutual Efficient Dispersion Mobile