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D-Index
98
Citations
71278
World Ranking
395
National Ranking
218

David Wagner 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 David Wagner sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 261 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David Wagner 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 David Wagner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 98 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% 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

  • 2003 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

David Wagner is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Engineering and Physics and Astronomy, with a significant focus on Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Computer Networks and Communications.

Their primary scientific topics cover a range of areas such as Spacecraft Design and Technology, Systems Engineering Methodologies and Applications, Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics, Ionosphere and Magnetosphere Dynamics, High-Energy Particle Collisions Research, Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory, and Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by David Wagner include:

  • A block forward substitution method for solving the hypercomplex finite element system of equations, 2021, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • Achieving high efficiency in reduced order modeling for large scale polycrystal plasticity simulations, 2023, Finite Elements in Analysis and Design
  • StruQ: Defending Against Prompt Injection with Structured Queries, 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Cast Magnesium Subframe Development - Bolt Load Retention, 2021, SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series
  • Experimental and numerical investigation of cure kinetics in pultrusion of Elium®-based thermoplastic fibre reinforced composites, 2025, Composites Part B Engineering

The scientist has published extensively in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University) with 17 publications, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) with 6 publications, along with contributions to SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, and Finite Elements in Analysis and Design.

Frequent collaborators throughout their career include Patrick Kappl, Nora Weickgenannt, David Löpitz, Enrico Speranza, and Dirk H. Rischke.

David Wagner received recognition as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2003.

Best Publications

  • Towards Evaluating the Robustness of Neural Networks

    Nicholas Carlini;David Wagner

  • Secure routing in wireless sensor networks: attacks and countermeasures

    C. Karlof;D. Wagner

  • Practical techniques for searches on encrypted data

    Dawn Xiaoding Song;D. Wagner;A. Perrig

  • TinySec: a link layer security architecture for wireless sensor networks

    Chris Karlof;Naveen Sastry;David Wagner

  • Obfuscated Gradients Give a False Sense of Security: Circumventing Defenses to Adversarial Examples

    Anish Athalye;Nicholas Carlini;David A. Wagner

  • Security in wireless sensor networks

    Adrian Perrig;John Stankovic;David Wagner

  • Android permissions demystified

    Adrienne Porter Felt;Erika Chin;Steve Hanna;Dawn Song

  • Adversarial Examples Are Not Easily Detected: Bypassing Ten Detection Methods

    Nicholas Carlini;David Wagner

  • Intercepting mobile communications: the insecurity of 802.11

    Nikita Borisov;Ian Goldberg;David Wagner

  • Android permissions: user attention, comprehension, and behavior

    Adrienne Porter Felt;Elizabeth Ha;Serge Egelman;Ariel Haney

  • Analyzing inter-application communication in Android

    Erika Chin;Adrienne Porter Felt;Kate Greenwood;David Wagner

  • Private circuits: Securing Hardware against probing attacks

    Yuval Ishai;Amit Sahai;David Wagner

  • A survey of mobile malware in the wild

    Adrienne Porter Felt;Matthew Finifter;Erika Chin;Steve Hanna

  • Privacy and security in library RFID: issues, practices, and architectures

    David Molnar;David Wagner

  • Intrusion detection via static analysis

    D. Wagner;R. Dean

  • A First Step Towards Automated Detection of Buffer Overrun Vulnerabilities.

    David A. Wagner;Jeffrey S. Foster;Eric A. Brewer;Alexander Aiken

  • Mimicry attacks on host-based intrusion detection systems

    David Wagner;Paolo Soto

  • Audio Adversarial Examples: Targeted Attacks on Speech-to-Text

    Nicholas Carlini;David Wagner

  • A secure environment for untrusted helper applications confining the Wily Hacker

    Ian Goldberg;David Wagner;Randi Thomas;Eric A. Brewer

  • Secure verification of location claims

    Naveen Sastry;Umesh Shankar;David Wagner

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier Harvard University
Serge Egelman
Serge Egelman International Computer Science Institute
Nicholas Carlini
Nicholas Carlini Google (United States)
John Kelsey
John Kelsey National Institute of Standards and Technology
David Molnar
David Molnar Microsoft (United States)
Ian Goldberg
Ian Goldberg University of Waterloo
Phillip Rogaway
Phillip Rogaway University of California, Davis
Dawn Song
Dawn Song University of California, Berkeley
Konstantin Beznosov
Konstantin Beznosov University of British Columbia
Eric Brewer
Eric Brewer University of California, Berkeley

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