2026 Elisa Bertino: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Female Scientists	114	732	698	443	419	1469	54705
Computer Science	116	177	172	102	99	1458	54248

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2019 - ACM Athena Lecturer Award For pioneering and impactful contributions to data management, security, and privacy, along with outstanding contributions to broadening participation in computing via professional leadership and mentoring
2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2003 - ACM Fellow For contributions to secure database systems.
2002 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the theory of object-oriented databases, temporal databases, and database security.

Overview

Elisa Bertino is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their work is primarily situated in the field of Computer Science, with significant contributions across subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Signal Processing, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics of their research include:

Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Network Security and Intrusion Detection
Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
Information and Cyber Security
Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
Cryptography and Data Security

They have been published frequently in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
IEEE Security & Privacy
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security

Recent papers authored by Elisa Bertino include:

"Impact and Key Challenges of Insider Threats on Organizations and Critical Businesses," 2020, Electronics
"A knowledge graph empowered online learning framework for access control decision-making," 2022, World Wide Web
"Privacy-Preserving Reputation Systems Based on Blockchain and Other Cryptographic Building Blocks: A Survey," 2022, ACM Computing Surveys
"FastLAS: Scalable Inductive Logic Programming Incorporating Domain-Specific Optimisation Criteria," 2020, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
"Zero Trust Architecture: Does It Help?," 2021, IEEE Security & Privacy

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

Imtiaz Karim
Adrian Shuai Li
Charalampos Katsis
Fabrizio Cicala
Hyunwoo Lee

Elisa Bertino has published books primarily through Springer Science+Business Media, with titles such as Computer Security - ESORICS 2021 (2021), Artificial Intelligence and Security (2021, 2020), and Information Security and Cryptology - ICISC 2019 (2020). Additional book publications include Machine Learning Techniques for Cybersecurity (2023) through Morgan & Claypool Publishers.

Their work has received recognition through awards including:

ACM Athena Lecturer Award (2019) for contributions to data management, security, privacy, and professional leadership
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2016)
ACM Fellow (2003) for contributions to secure database systems
IEEE Fellow (2002) for contributions to the theory of object-oriented databases, temporal databases, and database security

Best Publications

TRBAC: a temporal role-based access control model

Elisa Bertino;Piero Andrea Bonatti;Elena Ferrari

1307
Citations
TRBAC: A temporal role-based access control model

Elisa Bertino;Piero Andrea Bonatti;Elena Ferrari

1296
Citations
State-of-the-art in privacy preserving data mining

Vassilios S. Verykios;Elisa Bertino;Igor Nai Fovino;Loredana Parasiliti Provenza

1219
Citations
A generalized temporal role-based access control model

J.B.D. Joshi;E. Bertino;U. Latif;A. Ghafoor

841
Citations
The specification and enforcement of authorization constraints in workflow management systems

Elisa Bertino;Elena Ferrari;Vijay Atluri

829
Citations
Botnets and Internet of Things Security

Elisa Bertino;Nayeem Islam

779
Citations
Association rule hiding

V.S. Verykios;A.K. Elmagarmid;E. Bertino;Y. Saygin

728
Citations
Database security - concepts, approaches, and challenges

E. Bertino;R. Sandhu

707
Citations
Disclosure limitation of sensitive rules

M. Atallah;E. Bertino;A. Elmagarmid;M. Ibrahim

629
Citations
GEO-RBAC: a spatially aware RBAC

Elisa Bertino;Barbara Catania;Maria Luisa Damiani;Paolo Perlasca

582
Citations
Purpose based access control of complex data for privacy protection

Ji-Won Byun;Elisa Bertino;Ninghui Li

576
Citations
Quality Control in Crowdsourcing Systems: Issues and Directions

M. Allahbakhsh;B. Benatallah;A. Ignjatovic;H. R. Motahari-Nezhad

537
Citations
A model of authorization for next-generation database systems

Fausto Rabitti;Elisa Bertino;Won Kim;Darrell Woelk

505
Citations
Privacy-aware role-based access control

Qun Ni;Elisa Bertino;Jorge Lobo;Carolyn Brodie

493
Citations
Efficient k-anonymization using clustering techniques

Ji-Won Byun;Ashish Kamra;Elisa Bertino;Ninghui Li

478
Citations
Secure and selective dissemination of XML documents

Elisa Bertino;Elena Ferrari

472
Citations
A unified framework for enforcing multiple access control policies

Sushil Jajodia;Pierangela Samarati;V. S. Subrahmanian;Eliza Bertino

447
Citations
Hiding Association Rules by Using Confidence and Support

Elena Dasseni;Vassilios S. Verykios;Ahmed K. Elmagarmid;Elisa Bertino

437
Citations
Preserving user location privacy in mobile data management infrastructures

Reynold Cheng;Yu Zhang;Elisa Bertino;Sunil Prabhakar

434
Citations
Composite objects revisited

Won Kim;Elisa Bertino;Jorge F. Garza

426
Citations
Internet of Things (IoT): Smart and Secure Service Delivery

Elisa Bertino;Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo;Dimitrios Georgakopolous;Surya Nepal

165
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Elena Ferrari University of Insubria

Anna Cinzia Squicciarini Pennsylvania State University

Ninghui Li Purdue University West Lafayette

Arif Ghafoor Purdue University West Lafayette

Gabriel Ghinita Hamad bin Khalifa University

Xun Yi RMIT University

Bhavani Thuraisingham The University of Texas at Dallas

Pierangela Samarati University of Milan

Jorge Lobo Pompeu Fabra University

Sushil Jajodia George Mason University

External Links

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