2026 Dan Boneh: 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	137	78	75	48	46	416	115169

Dan Boneh publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dan Boneh sits on this spectrum.

32 publications 991+

This scientist: 416 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Dan Boneh D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dan Boneh sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 137 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2021 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society For contributions to cryptography.
2016 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to the theory and practice of cryptography and computer security.
2016 - ACM Fellow For contributions to cryptography and computer security.
2014 - ACM Prize in Computing For ground-breaking contributions to the development of pairing-based cryptography and its application in identity-based encryption.
1999 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Dan Boneh is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and specializes primarily in the field of Computer Science. Their work spans various subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Computer Networks and Communications, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Management Information Systems.

The main topics of their research cover Cryptography and Data Security, Blockchain Technology Applications and Security, Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data, Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs, Cloud Data Security Solutions, Cryptography and Residue Arithmetic, and FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance.

Dan Boneh has contributed to a number of publications in various venues. Frequent publication venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
The Open Book Series
Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)
SSRN Electronic Journal

Significant recent papers by Dan Boneh include:

zkBridge, 2022, Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
Differentially Private Learning Needs Better Features (or Much More Data), 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
Supersingular curves with small noninteger endomorphisms, 2020, The Open Book Series
Remote Side-Channel Attacks on Anonymous Transactions, 2020, Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)
zkBridge: Trustless Cross-chain Bridges Made Practical, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Dan Boneh include Aditi Partap, Lior Rotem, Benedikt Bünz, Dawn Song, and Neil Perry.

Dan Boneh has received several notable awards recognizing their contributions in cryptography and computer security:

Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2021, for contributions to cryptography
ACM Fellow, 2016, for contributions to cryptography and computer security
Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2016, for contributions to the theory and practice of cryptography and computer security
ACM Prize in Computing, 2014, for ground-breaking contributions to the development of pairing-based cryptography and its application in identity-based encryption
Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1999

Best Publications

Identity-Based Encryption from the Weil Pairing

Dan Boneh;Matthew K. Franklin

13640
Citations
Short Signatures from the Weil Pairing

Dan Boneh;Ben Lynn;Hovav Shacham

5954
Citations
Public Key Encryption with Keyword Search

Dan Boneh;Giovanni Di Crescenzo;Rafail Ostrovsky;Giuseppe Persiano

4234
Citations
Identity-Based Encryption from the Weil Pairing

Dan Boneh;Matthew Franklin

3958
Citations
A fully homomorphic encryption scheme

Dan Boneh;Craig Gentry

3449
Citations
Short Group Signatures.

Dan Boneh;Xavier Boyen;Hovav Shacham

2734
Citations
Aggregate and verifiably encrypted signatures from bilinear maps

Dan Boneh;Craig Gentry;Ben Lynn;Hovav Shacham

2687
Citations
Ensemble Adversarial Training: Attacks and Defenses

Florian Tramèr;Alexey Kurakin;Nicolas Papernot;Ian J. Goodfellow

2672
Citations
On the importance of checking cryptographic protocols for faults

Dan Boneh;Richard A. DeMillo;Richard J. Lipton

2421
Citations
Hierarchical identity based encryption with constant size ciphertext

Dan Boneh;Xavier Boyen;Eu-Jin Goh

2336
Citations
Efficient selective-ID secure identity-based Encryption without random oracles

Dan Boneh;Xavier Boyen

2277
Citations
Evaluating 2-DNF formulas on ciphertexts

Dan Boneh;Eu-Jin Goh;Kobbi Nissim

2259
Citations
Conjunctive, subset, and range queries on encrypted data

Dan Boneh;Brent Waters

1870
Citations
Remote timing attacks are practical

David Brumley;Dan Boneh

1829
Citations
Collusion-secure fingerprinting for digital data

D. Boneh;J. Shaw

1768
Citations
Short signatures without random oracles

Dan Boneh;Xavier Boyen

1700
Citations
Terra: a virtual machine-based platform for trusted computing

Tal Garfinkel;Ben Pfaff;Jim Chow;Mendel Rosenblum

1670
Citations
Collusion Resistant Broadcast Encryption With Short Ciphertexts and Private Keys.

Dan Boneh;Craig Gentry;Brent Waters

1420
Citations
The Decision Diffie-Hellman Problem

Dan Boneh

1372
Citations
Chosen-Ciphertext Security from Identity-Based Encryption

Ran Canetti;Shai Halevi;Jonathan Katz

1328
Citations
On genetic algorithms

Eric B. Baum;Dan Boneh;Charles Garrett

479
Citations
On the Importance of Checking Cryptographic Protocols for Faults (Extended Abstract).

Dan Boneh;Richard A. DeMillo;Richard J. Lipton

411
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Brent Waters The University of Texas at Austin

Xavier Boyen Queensland University of Technology

Mark Zhandry Princeton University

Amit Sahai University of California, Los Angeles

Craig Gentry TripleBlind

Hovav Shacham The University of Texas at Austin

Gil Segev Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Elie Bursztein Google (United States)

Shai Halevi Amazon (United States)

Florian Tramèr ETH Zurich

External Links

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