2026 Emiliano De Cristofaro: 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	61	3122	3031	1517	1460	202	12166

Overview

Emiliano De Cristofaro is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their research spans multiple interdisciplinary areas within computer science and social sciences, focusing primarily on the intersection of technology, security, and societal impacts.

Their scholarly work includes extensive publications on topics such as hate speech and cyberbullying detection, misinformation and its impacts, social media and politics, privacy-preserving technologies in data, spam and phishing detection, advanced malware detection techniques, and adversarial robustness in machine learning.

Key publication venues where Emiliano De Cristofaro has contributed significantly include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
IEEE Security & Privacy

Some notable recent papers include:

"Raiders of the Lost Kek: 3.5 Years of Augmented 4chan Posts from the Politically Incorrect Board," 2020, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
"And We Will Fight for Our Race! A Measurement Study of Genetic Testing Conversations on Reddit and 4chan," 2020, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
"How over is it? Understanding the Incel Community on YouTube," 2021, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
"Dissecting the Meme Magic: Understanding Indicators of Virality in Image Memes," 2021, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
"A Critical Overview of Privacy in Machine Learning," 2021, IEEE Security & Privacy

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

Gianluca Stringhini
Jeremy Blackburn
Savvas Zannettou
Kostantinos Papadamou
Michael Sirivianos

The main fields of study covered by Emiliano De Cristofaro consist of Computer Science and Social Sciences. Within these, their work further specializes in subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science, Communication, Information Systems, and Signal Processing.

Best Publications

Exploiting Unintended Feature Leakage in Collaborative Learning

Luca Melis;Congzheng Song;Emiliano De Cristofaro;Vitaly Shmatikov

1508
Citations
Practical private set intersection protocols with linear complexity

Emiliano De Cristofaro;Gene Tsudik

550
Citations
LOGAN: Membership Inference Attacks Against Generative Models

Jamie Hayes;Luca Melis;George Danezis;Emiliano De Cristofaro

480
Citations
Mean Birds: Detecting Aggression and Bullying on Twitter

Despoina Chatzakou;Nicolas Kourtellis;Jeremy Blackburn;Emiliano De Cristofaro

439
Citations
MaMaDroid: Detecting Android Malware by Building Markov Chains of Behavioral Models

Enrico Mariconti;Lucky Onwuzurike;Panagiotis Andriotis;Emiliano De Cristofaro

365
Citations
MaMaDroid: Detecting Android Malware by Building Markov Chains of Behavioral Models (Extended Version)

Lucky Onwuzurike;Enrico Mariconti;Panagiotis Andriotis;Emiliano De Cristofaro

314
Citations
Countering GATTACA: efficient and secure testing of fully-sequenced human genomes

Pierre Baldi;Roberta Baronio;Emiliano De Cristofaro;Paolo Gasti

305
Citations
Kek, Cucks, and God Emperor Trump: A Measurement Study of 4chan's Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effects on the Web

Gabriel Emile Hine;Jeremiah Onaolapo;Emiliano De Cristofaro;Nicolas Kourtellis

291
Citations
On the Origins of Memes by Means of Fringe Web Communities

Savvas Zannettou;Tristan Caulfield;Jeremy Blackburn;Emiliano De Cristofaro

291
Citations
Linear-Complexity Private Set Intersection Protocols Secure in Malicious Model.

Emiliano De Cristofaro;Jihye Kim;Gene Tsudik

285
Citations
Fast and Private Computation of Cardinality of Set Intersection and Union

Emiliano De Cristofaro;Paolo Gasti;Gene Tsudik

267
Citations
What is Gab: A Bastion of Free Speech or an Alt-Right Echo Chamber

Savvas Zannettou;Barry Bradlyn;Emiliano De Cristofaro;Haewoon Kwak

241
Citations
Disinformation Warfare: Understanding State-Sponsored Trolls on Twitter and Their Influence on the Web

Savvas Zannettou;Tristan Caulfield;Emiliano De Cristofaro;Michael Sirivianos

223
Citations
Knock Knock, Who's There? Membership Inference on Aggregate Location Data

Apostolos Pyrgelis;Carmela Troncoso;Emiliano De Cristofaro

215
Citations
The web centipede: understanding how web communities influence each other through the lens of mainstream and alternative news sources

Savvas Zannettou;Tristan Caulfield;Emiliano De Cristofaro;Nicolas Kourtelris

206
Citations
What is Gab? A Bastion of Free Speech or an Alt-Right Echo Chamber?

Savvas Zannettou;Barry Bradlyn;Emiliano De Cristofaro;Haewoon Kwak

175
Citations
Hummingbird: Privacy at the Time of Twitter

E. De Cristofaro;C. Soriente;G. Tsudik;A. Williams

174
Citations
EphPub: Toward robust Ephemeral Publishing

Claude Castelluccia;Emiliano De Cristofaro;Aurelien Francillon;Mohamed-Ali Kaafar

151
Citations
Privacy in content-oriented networking: threats and countermeasures

Abdelberi Chaabane;Emiliano De Cristofaro;Mohamed Ali Kaafar;Ersin Uzun

149
Citations
The Evolution of the Manosphere Across the Web

Manoel Horta Ribeiro;Jeremy Blackburn;Barry Bradlyn;Emiliano De Cristofaro

149
Citations
Paying for Likes?: Understanding Facebook Like Fraud Using Honeypots

Emiliano De Cristofaro;Arik Friedman;Guillaume Jourjon;Mohamed Ali Kaafar

141
Citations
Countering Gattaca: Efficient and Secure Testing of Fully-Sequenced Human Genomes (Full Version)

Pierre Baldi;Roberta Baronio;Emiliano De Cristofaro;Paolo Gasti

6
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gianluca Stringhini Boston University

Jeremy Blackburn Binghamton University

Gene Tsudik University of California, Irvine

Nicolas Kourtellis Telefónica (Spain)

Mohamed Ali Kaafar Macquarie University

Ilias Leontiadis Facebook (United States)

Carlo Blundo University of Salerno

Athena Vakali Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Claude Castelluccia French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA

George Danezis University College London

External Links

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