2026 Daniel Genkin: 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	42	8202	7968	3516	3382	80	11282

Overview

Daniel Genkin is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with notable focus on subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Hardware and Architecture, Signal Processing, Information Systems, and Computer Networks and Communications.

Their work addresses various topics including Security and Verification in Computing, Advanced Malware Detection Techniques, Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques, Cryptographic Implementations and Security, User Authentication and Security Systems, Cryptography and Data Security, and Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security.

Recent publications by Daniel Genkin include:

"Meltdown" (2020), Communications of the ACM
"Spectre attacks" (2020), Communications of the ACM
"Light Commands: Laser-Based Audio Injection Attacks on Voice-Controllable Systems" (2020), arXiv (Cornell University)
"SpecHammer: Combining Spectre and Rowhammer for New Speculative Attacks" (2022), 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)

Frequent co-authors of Daniel Genkin include:

Yuval Yarom
Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup
Jason Z. Kim
David Wu
Joel Kuepper

Common venues for publishing their research are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Communications of the ACM
2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Best Publications

Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution

Paul Kocher;Jann Horn;Anders Fogh;Daniel Genkin

2255
Citations
Meltdown: reading kernel memory from user space

Moritz Lipp;Michael Schwarz;Daniel Gruss;Thomas Prescher

972
Citations
Foreshadow: extracting the keys to the intel SGX kingdom with transient out-of-order execution

Jo Van Bulck;Marina Minkin;Ofir Weisse;Daniel Genkin

961
Citations
SNARKs for C: Verifying Program Executions Succinctly and in Zero Knowledge.

Eli Ben-Sasson;Alessandro Chiesa;Daniel Genkin;Eran Tromer

752
Citations
CacheBleed: a timing attack on OpenSSL constant-time RSA

Yuval Yarom;Daniel Genkin;Daniel Genkin;Nadia Heninger

639
Citations
RSA Key Extraction via Low-Bandwidth Acoustic Cryptanalysis

Daniel Genkin;Adi Shamir;Eran Tromer

593
Citations
Get your hands off my laptop: physical side-channel key-extraction attacks on PCs

Daniel Genkin;Daniel Genkin;Itamar Pipman;Eran Tromer

427
Citations
Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution

Paul Kocher;Daniel Genkin;Daniel Gruss;Werner Haas

277
Citations
Fallout: Leaking Data on Meltdown-resistant CPUs

Claudio Canella;Daniel Genkin;Lukas Giner;Daniel Gruss

230
Citations
LVI: Hijacking Transient Execution through Microarchitectural Load Value Injection

Jo Van Bulck;Daniel Moghimi;Michael Schwarz;Moritz Lippi

227
Citations
ECDSA Key Extraction from Mobile Devices via Nonintrusive Physical Side Channels

Daniel Genkin;Lev Pachmanov;Itamar Pipman;Eran Tromer

227
Citations
Another Flip in the Wall of Rowhammer Defenses

Daniel Gruss;Moritz Lipp;Michael Schwarz;Daniel Genkin

218
Citations
Spectre attacks: exploiting speculative execution

Paul Kocher;Jann Horn;Anders Fogh;Daniel Genkin

211
Citations
Stealing Keys from PCs using a Radio: Cheap Electromagnetic Attacks on Windowed Exponentiation.

Daniel Genkin;Lev Pachmanov;Itamar Pipman;Eran Tromer

204
Citations
vSQL: Verifying Arbitrary SQL Queries over Dynamic Outsourced Databases

Yupeng Zhang;Daniel Genkin;Jonathan Katz;Dimitrios Papadopoulos

195
Citations
Meltdown: reading kernel memory from user space

Moritz Lipp;Michael Schwarz;Daniel Gruss;Thomas Prescher

186
Citations
Foreshadow-NG: Breaking the virtual memory abstraction with transient out-of-order execution

Ofir Weisse;Jo Van Bulck;Marina Minkin;Daniel Genkin

181
Citations
RAMBleed: Reading Bits in Memory Without Accessing Them

Andrew Kwong;Daniel Genkin;Daniel Gruss;Yuval Yarom

176
Citations
Fast Large-Scale Honest-Majority MPC for Malicious Adversaries.

Koji Chida;Daniel Genkin;Koki Hamada;Dai Ikarashi

171
Citations
Acoustic Cryptanalysis

Daniel Genkin;Adi Shamir;Eran Tromer

117
Citations
Light Commands: Laser-Based Audio Injection Attacks on Voice-Controllable Systems

Takeshi Sugawara;Benjamin Cyr;Sara Rampazzi;Daniel Genkin

93
Citations
Stealing Keys from PCs using a Radio: Cheap Electromagnetic Attacks on Windowed Exponentiation (extended version)

Daniel Genkin;Lev Pachmanov;Itamar Pipman;Eran Tromer

6
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuval Yarom Ruhr University Bochum

Eran Tromer Tel Aviv University

Michael Schwarz Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Alessandro Chiesa École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Daniel Gruss Graz University of Technology

Eli Ben-Sasson Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Frank Piessens KU Leuven

Yuval Ishai Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Adi Shamir Weizmann Institute of Science

Stefan Mangard Graz University of Technology

External Links

Personal website of Daniel Genkin Google Scholar page

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