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Engin Kirda 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 Engin Kirda sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 223 publications — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Engin Kirda 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 Engin Kirda sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 70 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Engin Kirda is affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in computer science and social sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including signal processing, artificial intelligence, information systems, sociology, and political science.

The scientist's research addresses a variety of topics, prominently focusing on advanced malware detection techniques, security and verification in computing, privacy, security, and data protection. Additional areas of interest include internet traffic analysis and secure e-voting, network security and intrusion detection, software testing and debugging techniques, as well as spam and phishing detection.

Engin Kirda has published numerous papers in reputable venues. Some recent publications include:

  • "Who's Controlling My Device? Multi-User Multi-Device-Aware Access Control System for Shared Smart Home Environment," 2022, ACM Transactions on Internet of Things
  • "HotFuzz: Discovering Temporal and Spatial Denial-of-Service Vulnerabilities Through Guided Micro-Fuzzing," 2022, ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security
  • "On the Complexity of the Web's PKI: Evaluating Certificate Validation of Mobile Browsers," 2023, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  • "OAuth 2.0 Redirect URI Validation Falls Short, Literally," 2023, Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
  • "DICE: Automatic Emulation of DMA Input Channels for Dynamic Firmware Analysis," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable coauthors include Long Lu, Bo Feng, Amin Kharraz, Meng Luo, and Narmeen Shafqat.

Engin Kirda has contributed to several publication venues, with multiple works appearing in arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, and proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Publications also appear in ACM Transactions on Internet of Things and ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security.

Best Publications

  • A survey on automated dynamic malware-analysis techniques and tools

    Manuel Egele;Theodoor Scholte;Engin Kirda;Christopher Kruegel

  • Limits of Static Analysis for Malware Detection

    A. Moser;C. Kruegel;E. Kirda

  • Panorama: capturing system-wide information flow for malware detection and analysis

    Heng Yin;Dawn Song;Manuel Egele;Christopher Kruegel

  • Pixy: a static analysis tool for detecting Web application vulnerabilities

    N. Jovanovic;C. Kruegel;E. Kirda

  • Polymorphic worm detection using structural information of executables

    Christopher Kruegel;Engin Kirda;Darren Mutz;William Robertson

  • Exploring Multiple Execution Paths for Malware Analysis

    A. Moser;C. Kruegel;E. Kirda

  • All your contacts are belong to us: automated identity theft attacks on social networks

    Leyla Bilge;Thorsten Strufe;Davide Balzarotti;Engin Kirda

  • Cross Site Scripting Prevention with Dynamic Data Tainting and Static Analysis.

    Philipp Vogt;Florian Nentwich;Nenad Jovanovic;Engin Kirda

  • Effective and efficient malware detection at the end host

    Clemens Kolbitsch;Paolo Milani Comparetti;Christopher Kruegel;Engin Kirda

  • Cutting the Gordian Knot: A Look Under the Hood of Ransomware Attacks

    Amin Kharraz;William Robertson;Davide Balzarotti;Leyla Bilge

  • Saner: Composing Static and Dynamic Analysis to Validate Sanitization in Web Applications

    D. Balzarotti;M. Cova;V. Felmetsger;N. Jovanovic

  • Service specific anomaly detection for network intrusion detection

    Christopher Krügel;Thomas Toth;Engin Kirda

  • A Practical Attack to De-anonymize Social Network Users

    Gilbert Wondracek;Thorsten Holz;Engin Kirda;Christopher Kruegel

  • Noxes: a client-side solution for mitigating cross-site scripting attacks

    Engin Kirda;Christopher Kruegel;Giovanni Vigna;Nenad Jovanovic

  • Dynamic Analysis of Malicious Code

    Ulrich Bayer;Andreas Moser;Christopher Kruegel;Engin Kirda

  • UNVEIL: a large-scale, automated approach to detecting ransomware

    Amin Kharraz;Sajjad Arshad;Collin Mulliner;William Robertson

  • Behavior-based spyware detection

    Engin Kirda;Christopher Kruegel;Greg Banks;Giovanni Vigna

  • G-Free: defeating return-oriented programming through gadget-less binaries

    Kaan Onarlioglu;Leyla Bilge;Andrea Lanzi;Davide Balzarotti

  • Beehive: large-scale log analysis for detecting suspicious activity in enterprise networks

    Ting-Fang Yen;Alina Oprea;Kaan Onarlioglu;Todd Leetham

  • Exposure: A Passive DNS Analysis Service to Detect and Report Malicious Domains

    Leyla Bilge;Sevil Sen;Davide Balzarotti;Engin Kirda

  • Disclosure: detecting botnet command and control servers through large-scale NetFlow analysis

    Leyla Bilge;Davide Balzarotti;William Robertson;Engin Kirda

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher Kruegel
Christopher Kruegel University of California, Santa Barbara
Giovanni Vigna
Giovanni Vigna University of California, Santa Barbara
Manuel Egele
Manuel Egele Boston University
William Robertson
William Robertson Northeastern University
Thorsten Holz
Thorsten Holz Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
Sotiris Ioannidis
Sotiris Ioannidis Technical University of Crete
Christo Wilson
Christo Wilson Northeastern University
Herbert Bos
Herbert Bos Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Konrad Rieck
Konrad Rieck Technische Universität Braunschweig

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