Recent publications for Ken Christensen

The following is a list of publications from 2015 to the present. For a complete list of publications see my CV.

Journals and magazines (refereed)

  1. M. Esmali and K. Christensen, "Performance Modeling of Public Permissionless Blockchains: A Survey," ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 57, Issue 7, Article No. 174, pp. 1-35, February 2025.

  2. M. Kargarmoakhar, M. Ross, Z. Hazari, S. Secules, M. Weiss, M. Georgiopoulos, and K. Christensen, "The Impact of a Community of Practice Scholarship Program on Students' Computing Identity," ACM Transactions on Computing Education, Volume 24, Issue 1, Article No. 8. pp 1-14, February 2024.

  3. S. Lunn, M. Ross, Z. Hazari, M. Weiss, M. Georgiopoulos, and K. Christensen, "How Do Educational Experiences Predict Computing Identity?" ACM Transactions on Computing Education, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 1-28, June 2022.

  4. N. von der Embse, K. Christensen, S. Kilgus, M. Mishra, and B. Chin, "Evaluating the Cost of Prevention Programming and Universal Screening with Discrete Event Simulation," Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, February 2021.

  5. S. Malla and K. Christensen, "The Effect of Server Energy Proportionality on Data Center Power Oversubscription," Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 104, pp. 119-130, January 2020.

  6. S. Malla and K. Christensen, "A Survey on Power Management Techniques for Oversubscription of Multi-Tenant Data Centers," ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 52, No. 1, Article 1, February 2019.

  7. B. Nordman and K. Christensen, "DC Local Power Distribution: Technology, Deployment, and Pathways to Success," IEEE Electrification Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 29-36, June 2016.

Conferences and workshops (refereed)

  1. V. Dasigi and K. Christensen, "WIP: Pledging To Be An Ethical Computing Professional," Proceedings of ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education, October 2024.

  2. N. Kumar, S. Secules, M. Kali, T. Solis, A. Halkiyo, M. Weiss, M. Georgiopoulos, J. Sullivan, K. Christensen, and A. Estacion. "Shifts in Perceptions of Career Pathways: The Impact of an S-STEM Program on Lower-Income Computing Students," Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference, June 2024.

  3. Kumar, B. Bond-Trittipo, M Kali, S. Secules, A. Estacion, M. Weiss, M. Georgiopoulos, K. Christensen, T. Solis, and J. Sullivan, "Factors Affecting the Future Career Pathway Decisions of Lower-Income Computing Students," Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference, June 2023.

  4. Lunn, M, Ross, Z. Hazari, M. Weiss, M. Georgiopoulos, and K. Christensen, "The Impact of Technical Interviews and other Professional and Cultural Experiences on Students' Computing Identity," Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE), July 2021.

  5. Kargarmoakhar, S. Lunn, M. Ross, Z. Hazari, M. Weiss, K. Christensen, M. Georgiopoulos, and T. Solis, "Impact of Social and Programmatic Experiences on Students' Interest in Pursuing a Graduate Degree in a Computing Field," Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference, July 2021.

  6. S. Lunn, M. Ross, Z. Hazari, M. Weiss, M. Georgiopoulos, K. Christensen, and T. Solis, "Uneven Playing Field: Examining Preparation for Technical Interviews in Computing and the Role of Cultural Experiences," Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference, July 2021.

  7. J. Wang, Z. Beasley, K. Christensen, and S. Sarkar, "Increasing the Participation of Women in Computer Science and Engineering: A Systematic Approach for Culture Change," Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference, July 2021.

  8. M. Kargarmoakhar, S. Lunn, L. Zahedi, M. Ross, Z. Hazari, M. Weiss, M. Georgiopoulos, K. Christensen, and T. Solis, "Understanding the Experiences that Contribute to the Inclusion of Underrepresented Groups in Computing," Proceedings of ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education, October 2020.

  9. M. Kargarmoakhar, M. Ross, Z. Hazari, M. Weiss, M. Georgiopoulos, K. Christensen, and T. Solis, "Computing Pathways: A Quantitative Inquiry into the Dynamic Pathways of Students in Computing with Gender Comparisons," Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2020.

  10. S. Malla, J. Wang, W. Hendrix, and K. Christensen, "Predicting Success for Computer Science Students," Proceedings of ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education, October 2019.

  11. M. Kargarmoakhar, M. Ross, Z. Hazari, M. Weiss, M. Georgiopoulos, and K. Christensen, "Influences of Friends and Family on Women's Pursuit of Computing; a Sequential Explanator Design," Hawaii University International Conferences, Science, Technology & Engineering, Arts, Mathematics and Education, June 2019.

  12. M. Taheri, M. Ross, Z. Hazari, M. Weiss, M. Georgiopoulos, K. Christensen, T. Solis, D. Chari, and Z. Taheri, "Exploring Computing Identity and Persistence Across Multiple Groups Using Structural Equation Modeling," ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 2019.

  13. J. Wang, D. Goldgof, and K. Christensen, "WiCSE: Impact of a Women's Support Group on Increasing the Percentage of Women Students in a Department of Computer Science and Engineering," ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 2019.

  14. S. Malla and K. Christensen, "Choosing the Best Server for a Data Center: The Importance of Workload Weighting," Proceedings of IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, November 2018.

  15. M. Taheri , M. Ross, Z. Hazari, M. Weiss, M. Georgiopoulos, K. Christensen, T. Solis, A. Garcia, and D. Chari, "A Structural Equation Model Analysis of Computing Identity Sub-Constructs and Student Academic Persistence," Proceedings of IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, October 2018.

  16. A. Garcia, M. Ross, Z. Hazari, M. Weiss, K. Christensen, and M. Georgiopoulos,"Examining the Computing Identity of High-Achieving Underserved Computing Students on the Basis of Gender, Field, and Year in School." Proceedings of Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity, April 2018.

  17. S. Malla and K. Christensen, "Reducing Power Use and Enabling Oversubscription in Multi-Tenant Data Centers Using Local Price," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, pp. 161-167, July 2017.

  18. B. Nordman and K. Christensen, "The Need for Communications to Enable DC Power to be Successful," Proceedings of the IEEE First International Conference on DC Microgrids, pp. 108-112, June 2015.

  19. B. Nordman and K. Christensen, "DC Local Power Distribution with Microgrids and Nanogrids," Proceedings of the IEEE First International Conference on DC Microgrids, pp. 199-204, June 2015.

Letters and comment papers

  1. S. Mala and K. Christensen, "HPC in the Cloud: Performance Comparison of Function as a Service (FaaS) vs Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)," Internet Technology Letters, Vol. 3, No. 1, January/February 2020.

  2. P. Reviriego, K. Christensen, and J.A. Maestro, "A Comment on 'Fast Bloom Filters and Their Generalization'," (Comment Paper), IEEE Transactions of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 303-304, January 2016.

Book chapters

  1. P. Reviriego, K. Christensen, M. Bennett, B. Nordman and J. A. Maestro, "Energy Efficiency in Ethernet," chapter in Green Communications, Wiley (edited by A. Meader, M. Meo, P. Rost, K. Samdanis, and C. Verikoukis), 2015.

Last update on March 29, 2025