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Elisa Bertino 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 Elisa Bertino sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 1,458 publications — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Elisa Bertino 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 Elisa Bertino sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 116 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 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

  • TRBAC: A temporal role-based access control model

    Elisa Bertino;Piero Andrea Bonatti;Elena Ferrari

  • State-of-the-art in privacy preserving data mining

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

  • A generalized temporal role-based access control model

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

  • The specification and enforcement of authorization constraints in workflow management systems

    Elisa Bertino;Elena Ferrari;Vijay Atluri

  • Botnets and Internet of Things Security

    Elisa Bertino;Nayeem Islam

  • Association rule hiding

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

  • Database security - concepts, approaches, and challenges

    E. Bertino;R. Sandhu

  • Disclosure limitation of sensitive rules

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

  • GEO-RBAC: a spatially aware RBAC

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

  • Purpose based access control of complex data for privacy protection

    Ji-Won Byun;Elisa Bertino;Ninghui Li

  • Quality Control in Crowdsourcing Systems: Issues and Directions

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

  • A model of authorization for next-generation database systems

    Fausto Rabitti;Elisa Bertino;Won Kim;Darrell Woelk

  • Privacy-aware role-based access control

    Qun Ni;Elisa Bertino;Jorge Lobo;Carolyn Brodie

  • Efficient k-anonymization using clustering techniques

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

  • Secure and selective dissemination of XML documents

    Elisa Bertino;Elena Ferrari

  • A unified framework for enforcing multiple access control policies

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

  • Hiding Association Rules by Using Confidence and Support

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

  • Preserving user location privacy in mobile data management infrastructures

    Reynold Cheng;Yu Zhang;Elisa Bertino;Sunil Prabhakar

  • Composite objects revisited

    Won Kim;Elisa Bertino;Jorge F. Garza

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Elena Ferrari
Elena Ferrari University of Insubria
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini Pennsylvania State University
Ninghui Li
Ninghui Li Purdue University West Lafayette
Arif Ghafoor
Arif Ghafoor Purdue University West Lafayette
Gabriel Ghinita
Gabriel Ghinita Hamad bin Khalifa University
Xun Yi
Xun Yi RMIT University
Bhavani Thuraisingham
Bhavani Thuraisingham The University of Texas at Dallas
Pierangela Samarati
Pierangela Samarati University of Milan
Jorge Lobo
Jorge Lobo Pompeu Fabra University
Sushil Jajodia
Sushil Jajodia George Mason University

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