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Researcher · Nvidia (United States) · United States

David B. Kirk

David B. Kirk publishes mostly in Hardware and Architecture, Computer Networks and Communications and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, on topics such as Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques, Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems and Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques.

ORCID 0000-0002-4887-5098 OpenAlex
World rank
#792,424
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#264,696
of 1,627,098
Works
121
Citations
5.1k
Citations per work
42.1
h-index
22
i10-index 36Top 9.5% in Hardware and Architecture
David B. Kirk

What does David B. Kirk research?

David B. Kirk's work is mostly in Computer Science (58%), Engineering (4%).

Physical Sciences: 76 works · 62.8% of their workComputer Science: 71 works · 58.3% of their workHardware and Architecture: 27 works · 22.3% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 16 works · 13.4% of their workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 10 works · 8.6% of their workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 10 works · 8.2% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 7 works · 5.8% of their workEngineering: 5 works · 4.5% of their workComputational Mechanics: 5 works · 4.5% of their workEverything else: 45 works · 37.2% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid B. Kirk121works
Physical Sciences63%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science7158.3%
    2. Engineering54.5%
  2. Everything else4537.2%
  1. 1Hardware and Architecture22% of their works
  2. 2Computer Networks and Communications13% of their works
  3. 3Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition9% of their works
  4. 4Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design8% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence6% of their works
  6. 6Computational Mechanics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David B. Kirk's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: High-Performance Computing, Parallel Computing, Performance Optimization, Distributed Systems, Resource Management, Grid Computing, Task Scheduling and Embedded Systems.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. High-Performance Computing652 topics
  2. Parallel Computing451 topic
  3. Performance Optimization451 topic
  4. Distributed Systems302 topics
  5. Resource Management302 topics
  6. Grid Computing201 topic
  7. Task Scheduling201 topic
  8. Embedded Systems192 topics
  9. Computer Graphics181 topic
  10. Visualization181 topic
  11. High-Level Synthesis111 topic
  12. Reconfigurable Computing111 topic
  13. Big Data101 topic
  14. Cloud Computing101 topic
  15. Interconnection Networks91 topic
  16. Networks on Chip91 topic
  17. Deep Learning81 topic
  18. Hard Real-Time Systems81 topic
  19. Point Clouds81 topic
  20. Scheduling Algorithms81 topic

Where does David B. Kirk work?

David B. Kirk's main affiliation in the publication record is Nvidia (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does David B. Kirk have?

OpenAlex counts 121 works and 5,097 citations for David B. Kirk, an h-index of 22, ranking #792,424 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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