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Emiliano De Cristofaro 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 Emiliano De Cristofaro sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 202 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Emiliano De Cristofaro 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 Emiliano De Cristofaro sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Practical private set intersection protocols with linear complexity

    Emiliano De Cristofaro;Gene Tsudik

  • LOGAN: Membership Inference Attacks Against Generative Models

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

  • Mean Birds: Detecting Aggression and Bullying on Twitter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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

  • On the Origins of Memes by Means of Fringe Web Communities

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

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

    Emiliano De Cristofaro;Jihye Kim;Gene Tsudik

  • Fast and Private Computation of Cardinality of Set Intersection and Union

    Emiliano De Cristofaro;Paolo Gasti;Gene Tsudik

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

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

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

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

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

    Apostolos Pyrgelis;Carmela Troncoso;Emiliano De Cristofaro

  • 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

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

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

  • Hummingbird: Privacy at the Time of Twitter

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

  • EphPub: Toward robust Ephemeral Publishing

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

  • Privacy in content-oriented networking: threats and countermeasures

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

  • The Evolution of the Manosphere Across the Web

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

  • Paying for Likes?: Understanding Facebook Like Fraud Using Honeypots

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

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Gianluca Stringhini
Gianluca Stringhini Boston University
Jeremy Blackburn
Jeremy Blackburn Binghamton University
Gene Tsudik
Gene Tsudik University of California, Irvine
Nicolas Kourtellis
Nicolas Kourtellis Telefónica (Spain)
Mohamed Ali Kaafar
Mohamed Ali Kaafar Macquarie University
Ilias Leontiadis
Ilias Leontiadis Facebook (United States)
Carlo Blundo
Carlo Blundo University of Salerno
Athena Vakali
Athena Vakali Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Claude Castelluccia
Claude Castelluccia French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA
George Danezis
George Danezis University College London

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