2026 Christian Rossow: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	39	9781	9500	486	474	79	6299

Overview

Christian Rossow is affiliated with Saarland University in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, with a focus on security and privacy-related areas. Their research spans multiple subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Signal Processing, Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics that Christian Rossow's work addresses include:

Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
Network Security and Intrusion Detection
Security and Verification in Computing
Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
Advanced Authentication Protocols Security

Their recent notable papers cover a range of security issues and technical innovations. These include:

"teEther: Gnawing at Ethereum to Automatically Exploit Smart Contracts" (2023), published at OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
"DPIFuzz: A Differential Fuzzing Framework to Detect DPI Elusion Strategies for QUIC" (2020), published at the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
"Osiris: Automated Discovery of Microarchitectural Side Channels" (2021), published on arXiv (Cornell University)
"Padding Ain't Enough: Assessing the Privacy Guarantees of Encrypted DNS" (2023), published at OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
"YarIx: Scalable YARA-based Malware Intelligence" (2023), published at OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Christian Rossow has collaborated frequently with various co-authors, including Jonas Bushart, Fabian Schwarz, Ahmad Ibrahim, Hamed Nemati, and Michael Schwarz. Their partnerships have contributed to a body of work that spans multiple venues.

Their publications have appeared predominantly in the following venues:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
arXiv (Cornell University)
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference

Christian Rossow's scientific output includes 57 publications classified under Computer Science, reflecting a research focus that intersects technical development and applied cybersecurity measures.

Best Publications

Amplification Hell: Revisiting Network Protocols for DDoS Abuse

Christian Rossow

526
Citations
Cross-Architecture Bug Search in Binary Executables

Jannik Pewny;Behrad Garmany;Robert Gawlik;Christian Rossow

344
Citations
IoTPOT: analysing the rise of IoT compromises

Yin Minn Pa Pa;Shogo Suzuki;Katsunari Yoshioka;Tsutomu Matsumoto

328
Citations
On Botnets That Use DNS for Command and Control.

Christian J. Dietrich;Christian Rossow;Felix C. Freiling;Herbert Bos

294
Citations
Manufacturing compromise: the emergence of exploit-as-a-service

Chris Grier;Lucas Ballard;Juan Caballero;Neha Chachra

287
Citations
Prudent Practices for Designing Malware Experiments: Status Quo and Outlook

C. Rossow;C. J. Dietrich;C. Grier;C. Kreibich

285
Citations
IoTPOT: A Novel Honeypot for Revealing Current IoT Threats

Yin Minn Pa Pa;Shogo Suzuki;Katsunari Yoshioka;Tsutomu Matsumoto

266
Citations
ret2spec: Speculative Execution Using Return Stack Buffers

Giorgi Maisuradze;Christian Rossow

252
Citations
Exit from hell? reducing the impact of amplification DDoS attacks

Marc Kührer;Thomas Hupperich;Christian Rossow;Thorsten Holz

238
Citations
teEther: Gnawing at Ethereum to Automatically Exploit Smart Contracts

Johannes Krupp;Christian Rossow

233
Citations
SoK: P2PWNED - Modeling and Evaluating the Resilience of Peer-to-Peer Botnets

C. Rossow;D. Andriesse;T. Werner;B. Stone-Gross

227
Citations
Paint It Black: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Malware Blacklists

Marc Kührer;Christian Rossow;Thorsten Holz

196
Citations
Leveraging semantic signatures for bug search in binary programs

Jannik Pewny;Felix Schuster;Lukas Bernhard;Thorsten Holz

159
Citations
Highly resilient peer-to-peer botnets are here: An analysis of Gameover Zeus

Dennis Andriesse;Christian Rossow;Brett Stone-Gross;Daniel Plohmann

157
Citations
AmpPot: Monitoring and Defending Against Amplification DDoS Attacks

Lukas Krämer;Johannes Krupp;Daisuke Makita;Tomomi Nishizoe

147
Citations
Millions of targets under attack: a macroscopic characterization of the DoS ecosystem

Mattijs Jonker;Alistair King;Johannes Krupp;Christian Rossow

144
Citations
Sandnet: network traffic analysis of malicious software

Christian Rossow;Christian J. Dietrich;Herbert Bos;Lorenzo Cavallaro

136
Citations
Going Wild: Large-Scale Classification of Open DNS Resolvers

Marc Kührer;Thomas Hupperich;Jonas Bushart;Christian Rossow

136
Citations
CoCoSpot: Clustering and recognizing botnet command and control channels using traffic analysis

Christian J. Dietrich;Christian Rossow;Norbert Pohlmann

122
Citations
– vatiCAN – Vetted, Authenticated CAN Bus

Stefan Nürnberger;Christian Rossow

114
Citations
Hey, You Have a Problem: On the Feasibility of Large-Scale Web Vulnerability Notification

Ben Stock;Giancarlo Pellegrino;Christian Rossow;Martin Johns

90
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Backes University of Oxford

Herbert Bos Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Thorsten Holz Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy

Felix C. Freiling University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Maarten van Steen University of Twente

Damon McCoy New York University

Vern Paxson University of California, Berkeley

Geoffrey M. Voelker University of California, San Diego

Max Mühlhäuser Technical University of Darmstadt

Michael Schwarz Helmholtz Center for Information Security

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