2026 Elie Bursztein: 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	37	10592	10294	4436	4252	96	7239

Elie Bursztein 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 Elie Bursztein sits on this spectrum.

32 publications 991+

This scientist: 96 publications — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Elie Bursztein 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 Elie Bursztein sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Elie Bursztein is affiliated with Google in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, with a focus on security, artificial intelligence, and information systems. Their body of work includes research on advanced malware detection, cryptographic implementations, spam and phishing detection, network security, and hate speech detection.

Their research has been published in a variety of venues, demonstrating involvement across several specialized forums. Frequent publication venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Foundations and Trends® in Privacy and Security
IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference

Recent publications by Bursztein include:

"It's common and a part of being a content creator": Understanding How Creators Experience and Cope with Hate and Harassment Online (2022), CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Identifying and Mitigating the Security Risks of Generative AI (2023), Foundations and Trends® in Privacy and Security
CoinPolice: Detecting Hidden Cryptojacking Attacks with Neural Networks (2020), arXiv (Cornell University)
Designing Toxic Content Classification for a Diversity of Perspectives (2021), arXiv (Cornell University)
Generalized Power Attacks against Crypto Hardware using Long-Range Deep Learning (2024), IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems

Bursztein's frequent co-authors include:

Kurt Thomas
Luca Invernizzi
Patrick Gage Kelley
Marina Yue Zhang
Sunny Consolvo

The scientist's work covers a range of main fields and subfields of study:

Computer Science

Artificial Intelligence
Information Systems
Signal Processing
Computer Networks and Communications
Hardware and Architecture

Main topics of work include:

Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Cryptographic Implementations and Security
Spam and Phishing Detection
Network Security and Intrusion Detection
Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security
Topic Modeling

Best Publications

Understanding the mirai botnet

Manos Antonakakis;Tim April;Michael Bailey;Matthew Bernhard

1498
Citations
State of the Art: Automated Black-Box Web Application Vulnerability Testing

Jason Bau;Elie Bursztein;Divij Gupta;John Mitchell

486
Citations
The first collision for full SHA-1

Marc Stevens;Elie Bursztein;Pierre Karpman;Ange Albertini

478
Citations
Text-based CAPTCHA strengths and weaknesses

Elie Bursztein;Matthieu Martin;John Mitchell

476
Citations
How Good Are Humans at Solving CAPTCHAs? A Large Scale Evaluation

Elie Bursztein;Steven Bethard;Celine Fabry;John C. Mitchell

339
Citations
An analysis of private browsing modes in modern browsers

Gaurav Aggarwal;Elie Bursztein;Collin Jackson;Dan Boneh

266
Citations
Tracking Ransomware End-to-end

Danny Yuxing Huang;Maxwell Matthaios Aliapoulios;Vector Guo Li;Luca Invernizzi

226
Citations
Data Breaches, Phishing, or Malware?: Understanding the Risks of Stolen Credentials

Kurt Thomas;Frank Li;Ali Zand;Jacob Barrett

208
Citations
The Security Impact of HTTPS Interception

Zakir Durumeric;Zane Ma;Drew Springall;Richard Barnes

188
Citations
Kamouflage : loss-resistant password management

Hristo Bojinov;Elie Bursztein;Xavier Boyen;Dan Boneh

180
Citations
"They Don't Leave Us Alone Anywhere We Go": Gender and Digital Abuse in South Asia

Nithya Sambasivan;Amna Batool;Nova Ahmed;Tara Matthews

159
Citations
The end is nigh: generic solving of text-based CAPTCHAs

Elie Bursztein;Jonathan Aigrain;Angelika Moscicki;John C. Mitchell

157
Citations
Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor MITM...: An Empirical Analysis of Email Delivery Security

Zakir Durumeric;David Adrian;Ariana Mirian;James Kasten

156
Citations
Busting frame busting a study of clickjacking vulnerabilities on popular sites

Gustav Rydstedt;Elie Bursztein;Dan Boneh;Collin Jackson

146
Citations
Ad Injection at Scale: Assessing Deceptive Advertisement Modifications

Kurt Thomas;Elie Bursztein;Chris Grier;Grant Ho

142
Citations
Framing dependencies introduced by underground commoditization

Kurt Thomas;Danny Yuxing Huang;David Y. Wang;Elie Bursztein

141
Citations
SoK: Hate, Harassment, and the Changing Landscape of Online Abuse

Kurt Thomas;Devdatta Akhawe;Michael Bailey;Dan Boneh

128
Citations
Users Really Do Plug in USB Drives They Find

Matthew Tischer;Zakir Durumeric;Sam Foster;Sunny Duan

126
Citations
The Failure of Noise-Based Non-continuous Audio Captchas

Elie Bursztein;Romain Beauxis;Hristo Paskov;Daniele Perito

122
Citations
Handcrafted Fraud and Extortion: Manual Account Hijacking in the Wild

Elie Bursztein;Borbala Benko;Daniel Margolis;Tadek Pietraszek

102
Citations
Protecting accounts from credential stuffing with password breach alerting

Kurt Thomas;Jennifer Pullman;Kevin Yeo;Ananth Raghunathan

36
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan Boneh Stanford University

John C. Mitchell Stanford University

Michael Bailey Georgia Institute of Technology

Sunny Consolvo Google (United States)

Zakir Durumeric University of California, Berkeley

Damon McCoy New York University

Vern Paxson University of California, Berkeley

Patrick Gage Kelley University of New Mexico

Steven Bethard University of Arizona

J. Alex Halderman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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