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George C. Necula 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 George C. Necula sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 121 publications — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

George C. Necula 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 George C. Necula sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 33rd percentile

33% 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

  • 2016 - ACM Distinguished Member
  • 2003 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  • 2001 - ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award For his seminal work on the concept and implementation of Proof Carrying Code, which has had a great impact on the field of programming languages and compilers and has given a new direction to applications of theorem proving to program correctness, such as safety of mobile code and component-based software.

Overview

George C. Necula is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. The research profile reflects work primarily associated with interdisciplinary and cross-border studies.

Their recent publication is titled Peculiarities in Crime Scene Identification of Actors and Confrontation of Statements during Migrant Smuggling Investigations, published in 2025 in the ACROSS Journal of Interdisciplinary Cross-border Studies.

  • Peculiarities in Crime Scene Identification of Actors and Confrontation of Statements during Migrant Smuggling Investigations (2025, ACROSS Journal of Interdisciplinary Cross-border Studies)

Frequent publication venues include:

  • ACROSS Journal of Interdisciplinary Cross-border Studies

The scholar does not list frequent co-authors.

Awards received by George C. Necula include:

  • ACM Distinguished Member (2016)
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2003)
  • ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award (2001) - for seminal work on the concept and implementation of Proof Carrying Code, impacting programming languages, compilers, and applications of theorem proving to program correctness, including the safety of mobile code and component-based software.

Best Publications

  • Proof-carrying code

    George C. Necula

  • CIL: Intermediate Language and Tools for Analysis and Transformation of C Programs

    George C. Necula;Scott McPeak;Shree Prakash Rahul;Westley Weimer

  • CCured: type-safe retrofitting of legacy code

    George C. Necula;Scott McPeak;Westley Weimer

  • Safe kernel extensions without run-time checking

    George C. Necula;Peter Lee

  • Translation validation for an optimizing compiler

    George C. Necula

  • CCured: type-safe retrofitting of legacy code

    Unknown

  • XFI: software guards for system address spaces

    Úlfar Erlingsson;Martín Abadi;Michael Vrable;Mihai Budiu

  • CCured: type-safe retrofitting of legacy software

    George C. Necula;Jeremy Condit;Matthew Harren;Scott McPeak

  • The design and implementation of a certifying compiler

    George C. Necula;Peter Lee

  • Guided GUI testing of android apps with minimal restart and approximate learning

    Wontae Choi;George Necula;Koushik Sen

  • Capriccio: scalable threads for internet services

    Rob von Behren;Jeremy Condit;Feng Zhou;George C. Necula

  • Safe, Untrusted Agents Using Proof-Carrying Code

    George C. Necula;Peter Lee

  • Mining temporal specifications for error detection

    Westley Weimer;George C. Necula

  • Compiling with proofs

    George Ciprian Necula;Peter Lee

  • A certifying compiler for Java

    Christopher Colby;Peter Lee;George C. Necula;Fred Blau

  • Temporal-Safety Proofs for Systems Code

    Thomas A. Henzinger;Ranjit Jhala;Rupak Majumdar;George C. Necula

  • CCured in the real world

    Jeremy Condit;Matthew Harren;Scott McPeak;George C. Necula

  • SafeDrive: safe and recoverable extensions using language-based techniques

    Feng Zhou;Jeremy Condit;Zachary Anderson;Ilya Bagrak

  • Dependent types for low-level programming

    Jeremy Condit;Matthew Harren;Zachary Anderson

  • CCured in the real world

    Unknown

  • Efficient representation and validation of proofs

    G.C. Necula;P. Lee

  • Temporal-safety proofs for systems code

    Thomas A. Henzinger;George C. Necula;Ranjit Jhala;Gregoire Sutre

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Lee
Peter Lee Carnegie Mellon University
Koushik Sen
Koushik Sen University of California, Berkeley
Sumit Gulwani
Sumit Gulwani Microsoft (United States)
Westley Weimer
Westley Weimer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Thomas A. Henzinger
Thomas A. Henzinger Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Eric Brewer
Eric Brewer University of California, Berkeley
Alex Aiken
Alex Aiken Stanford University
Ashish Tiwari
Ashish Tiwari Microsoft (United States)
Ranjit Jhala
Ranjit Jhala University of California, San Diego

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