40 faculty and 40 courses in Computer Science at University of California, San Diego.
- Mihir Bellare, Faculty h-index 100
Notable: “Random oracles are practical” (1993) · 4,689 citations
- Steven Swanson, Department Chair h-index 82
Notable: “Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer, Version 5.2017, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology” (2017) · 1,325 citations
- Vineet Bafna, Co-Vice Chair for Academic Personnel h-index 81
Notable: “The Diploid Genome Sequence of an Individual Human” (2007) · 1,820 citations
- Andrew B. Kahng, Faculty h-index 72
Notable: “New spectral methods for ratio cut partitioning and clustering” (1992) · 1,279 citations
- Rajesh K. Gupta, Faculty h-index 61
Notable: “Hardware-software cosynthesis for digital systems” (1993) · 608 citations
- Henrik I. Christensen, Faculty h-index 58
Notable: “Automatic grasp planning using shape primitives” (2004) · 716 citations
- Nuno Bandeira, Faculty h-index 57
Notable: “ProteomeXchange provides globally coordinated proteomics data submission and dissemination” (2014) · 2,870 citations
- Russell Impagliazzo, Faculty h-index 57
Notable: “A Pseudorandom Generator from any One-way Function” (1999) · 1,677 citations
- William G. Griswold, Faculty h-index 53
Notable: “Dynamically discovering likely program invariants to support program evolution” (2001) · 1,049 citations
- Ranjit Jhala, Faculty h-index 52
Notable: “Lazy abstraction” (2002) · 1,157 citations
- Alex Snoeren, Co-Vice Chair for Academic Personnel h-index 52
Notable: “Inside the Social Network's (Datacenter) Network” (2015) · 829 citations
- Manmohan Chandraker, Faculty h-index 49
Notable: “DESIRE: Distant Future Prediction in Dynamic Scenes with Interacting Agents” (2017) · 1,059 citations
- Yoav Freund, Faculty h-index 47
Notable: “A Decision-Theoretic Generalization of On-Line Learning and an Application to Boosting” (1997) · 20,337 citations
- Scott Klemmer, Faculty h-index 45
Notable: “How bodies matter” (2006) · 627 citations
- Ryan Kastner, Faculty h-index 44
Notable: “Fast template placement for reconfigurable computing systems” (2000) · 326 citations
- Pradeep K. Khosla, Faculty h-index 42
Notable: “Parameter identification of robot dynamics” (1985) · 375 citations
- Melissa Gymrek, Faculty h-index 41
- C. K. Cheng, Faculty h-index 41
Notable: “An O-tree representation of non-slicing floorplan and its applications” (1999) · 383 citations
- Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Faculty h-index 40
Notable: “Dark silicon and the end of multicore scaling” (2011) · 1,512 citations
- Sanjoy Dasgupta, Faculty h-index 40
Notable: “An elementary proof of a theorem of Johnson and Lindenstrauss” (2002) · 963 citations
- Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Faculty h-index 37
Notable: “Large-Scale Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining with Feature Fusion and Keyword-to-Caption Augmentation” (2023) · 385 citations
- Kamalika Chaudhuri, Faculty h-index 36
Notable: “Differentially Private Empirical Risk Minimization.” (2011) · 865 citations
- Alin Deutsch, Faculty h-index 36
Notable: “A query language for XML” (1999) · 548 citations
- Leo Porter, Director of Masters Programs h-index 35
Notable: “Peer instruction” (2011) · 195 citations
- Yufei Ding, Faculty h-index 29
Notable: “Tackling the Qubit Mapping Problem for NISQ-Era Quantum Devices” (2019) · 565 citations
- Daniel M. Kane, Faculty h-index 28
Notable: “An optimal algorithm for the distinct elements problem” (2010) · 323 citations
- Christine Alvarado, Faculty h-index 26
Notable: “The perfect search engine is not enough” (2004) · 543 citations
- Nadia Heninger, Faculty h-index 25
Notable: “Lest we remember” (2009) · 966 citations
- Loris D'Antoni, Faculty h-index 25
Notable: “Writing Reusable Code Feedback at Scale with Mixed-Initiative Program Synthesis” (2017) · 119 citations
- Earlence Fernandes, Faculty h-index 23
Notable: “Robust Physical-World Attacks on Deep Learning Visual Classification” (2018) · 2,099 citations
- Sicun Gao, Faculty h-index 22
Notable: “Safe Control With Learned Certificates: A Survey of Neural Lyapunov, Barrier, and Contraction Methods for Robotics and Control” (2023) · 217 citations
- Nadia Polikarpova, Vice Chair for Graduate Education h-index 19
Notable: “Grounded Copilot: How Programmers Interact with Code-Generating Models” (2023) · 345 citations
- Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Faculty h-index 18
Notable: “Event Representations for Automated Story Generation with Deep Neural Nets” (2018) · 158 citations
- Albert Chern, Faculty h-index 13
Notable: “Schrödinger's smoke” (2016) · 71 citations
- Michael Coblenz, Faculty h-index 12
Notable: “An Exploratory Study of How Developers Seek, Relate, and Collect Relevant Information during Software Maintenance Tasks” (2006) · 678 citations
- Mia Minnes, Vice Chair for Undergraduate Education h-index 12
Notable: “The Persistent Effect of Pre-College Computing Experience on College CS Course Grades” (2018) · 49 citations
- Daniel Grier, Faculty h-index 6
Notable: “The Complexity of Bipartite Gaussian Boson Sampling” (2022) · 45 citations
- Trevor Bonjour, Faculty h-index 2
Notable: “Decision Making in Monopoly Using a Hybrid Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach” (2022) · 23 citations
- Rob Knight, Faculty h-index 1
Notable: “Systems engineering study for the closure of single-shell tanks” (1991) · 7 citations
- Alex Gantman, Faculty
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.