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Guofei Gu 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 Guofei Gu sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 158 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Guofei Gu 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 Guofei Gu sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 55 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% 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

  • 2020 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to malware detection and security of next generation networks
  • 2019 - ACM Distinguished Member
  • 2014 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Guofei Gu is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States and works primarily in the field of Computer Science. Their research spans various subfields including Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence, Signal Processing, Information Systems, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their main areas of study focus on topics such as Network Security and Intrusion Detection, Software-Defined Networks and 5G, Advanced Malware Detection Techniques, Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting, Security and Verification in Computing, Web Application Security Vulnerabilities, and Spam and Phishing Detection.

Among Gu's recent papers are:

  • SysFlow: Toward a Programmable Zero Trust Framework for System Security, 2023, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
  • Disrupting the SDN Control Channel via Shared Links: Attacks and Countermeasures, 2022, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • Enabling Performant, Flexible and Cost-Efficient DDoS Defense With Programmable Switches, 2021, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • Control Plane Reflection Attacks and Defenses in Software-Defined Networks, 2020, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • Enhancing security in SDN: Systematizing attacks and defenses from a penetration perspective, 2024, Computer Networks

Gu has frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including Mingwei Xu, Hongxin Hu, Guanyu Li, Menghao Zhang, and Jianping Wu.

Guofei Gu has contributed to multiple publications in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, and Computer Networks.

The scientist has received several recognitions including the IEEE Fellow award in 2020 for contributions to malware detection and security of next generation networks, the ACM Distinguished Member honor in 2019, and was named ACM Senior Member in 2014.

Best Publications

  • BotMiner: clustering analysis of network traffic for protocol- and structure-independent botnet detection

    Guofei Gu;Roberto Perdisci;Junjie Zhang;Wenke Lee

  • BotSniffer: Detecting Botnet Command and Control Channels in Network Traffic

    Guofei Gu;Junjie Zhang;Wenke Lee

  • BotHunter: detecting malware infection through IDS-driven dialog correlation

    Guofei Gu;Phillip Porras;Vinod Yegneswaran;Martin Fong

  • FRESCO: Modular Composable Security Services for Software-Defined Networks

    Seung Won Shin;Phillip Porras;Vinod Yegneswara;Martin Fong

  • A security enforcement kernel for OpenFlow networks

    Philip Porras;Seungwon Shin;Vinod Yegneswaran;Martin Fong

  • AVANT-GUARD: scalable and vigilant switch flow management in software-defined networks

    Seungwon Shin;Vinod Yegneswaran;Phillip Porras;Guofei Gu

  • AppIntent: analyzing sensitive data transmission in android for privacy leakage detection

    Zhemin Yang;Min Yang;Yuan Zhang;Guofei Gu

  • TaintScope: A Checksum-Aware Directed Fuzzing Tool for Automatic Software Vulnerability Detection

    Tielei Wang;Tao Wei;Guofei Gu;Wei Zou

  • Poisoning Network Visibility in Software-Defined Networks: New Attacks and Countermeasures.

    Sungmin Hong;Lei Xu;Haopei Wang;Guofei Gu

  • Attacking software-defined networks: a first feasibility study

    Seungwon Shin;Guofei Gu

  • Vetting undesirable behaviors in android apps with permission use analysis

    Yuan Zhang;Min Yang;Bingquan Xu;Zhemin Yang

  • Empirical Evaluation and New Design for Fighting Evolving Twitter Spammers

    Chao Yang;R. Harkreader;Guofei Gu

  • Analyzing spammers' social networks for fun and profit: a case study of cyber criminal ecosystem on twitter

    Chao Yang;Robert Harkreader;Jialong Zhang;Seungwon Shin

  • FloodGuard: A DoS Attack Prevention Extension in Software-Defined Networks

    Haopei Wang;Lei Xu;Guofei Gu

  • A Taxonomy of Botnet Structures

    D. Dagon;Guofei Gu;C.P. Lee;Wenke Lee

  • Die free or live hard? empirical evaluation and new design for fighting evolving twitter spammers

    Chao Yang;Robert Chandler Harkreader;Guofei Gu

  • SmartDroid: an automatic system for revealing UI-based trigger conditions in android applications

    Cong Zheng;Shixiong Zhu;Shuaifu Dai;Guofei Gu

  • Using an Ensemble of One-Class SVM Classifiers to Harden Payload-based Anomaly Detection Systems

    Roberto Perdisci;Guofei Gu;Wenke Lee

  • CloudWatcher: Network security monitoring using OpenFlow in dynamic cloud networks (or: How to provide security monitoring as a service in clouds?)

    Seungwon Shin;Guofei Gu

  • Method and apparatus for detecting malware infection

    Guofei Gu;Phillip Andrew Porras;Martin Fong

Frequent Co-Authors

Wenke Lee
Wenke Lee Georgia Institute of Technology
Phillip Porras
Phillip Porras SRI International
Vinod Yegneswaran
Vinod Yegneswaran SRI International
Hongxin Hu
Hongxin Hu University at Buffalo, State University of New York
David Dagon
David Dagon Georgia Institute of Technology
Gail-Joon Ahn
Gail-Joon Ahn Arizona State University
Zhiqiang Lin
Zhiqiang Lin The Ohio State University
Xiapu Luo
Xiapu Luo Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Mingwei Xu
Mingwei Xu Tsinghua University
Junjie Zhang
Junjie Zhang Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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