2026 Herbert Bos: 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	62	2940	2855	27	26	242	13569

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Herbert Bos is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research focuses primarily on the field of Computer Science, with a significant body of work across several subfields including Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Systems, and Hardware and Architecture.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad range in computer security and software development, with emphasis on:

Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Security and Verification in Computing
Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
Software Engineering Research
Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
Distributed systems and fault tolerance
Information and Cyber Security

Recent publications by Herbert Bos demonstrate active contributions to security and software engineering research. These include:

"Cupid: Automatic Fuzzer Selection for Collaborative Fuzzing", 2020, Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
"DangZero", 2022, Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
"Don't Look UB: Exposing Sanitizer-Eliding Compiler Optimizations", 2023, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
"Benchmarking Flaws Undermine Security Research", 2020, IEEE Security & Privacy
"Triereme: Speeding up hybrid fuzzing through efficient query scheduling", 2023, Annual Computer Security Applications Conference

Herbert Bos has collaborated frequently with other researchers in the field. Notable coauthors include:

Cristiano Giuffrida
Erik van der Kouwe
Dennis Andriesse
Gernot Heiser
Elia Geretto

The scientist's work has been published repeatedly in several venues, particularly:

IEEE Security & Privacy
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages

Best Publications

VUzzer: Application-aware Evolutionary Fuzzing.

Sanjay Rawat;Vivek Jain;Ashish Kumar;Lucian Cojocar

675
Citations
Paranoid Android: versatile protection for smartphones

Georgios Portokalidis;Philip Homburg;Kostas Anagnostakis;Herbert Bos

548
Citations
Out of Control: Overcoming Control-Flow Integrity

Enes Goktas;Elias Athanasopoulos;Herbert Bos;Georgios Portokalidis

526
Citations
Argos: an emulator for fingerprinting zero-day attacks for advertised honeypots with automatic signature generation

Georgios Portokalidis;Asia Slowinska;Herbert Bos

462
Citations
RIDL: Rogue In-Flight Data Load

Stephan van Schaik;Alyssa Milburn;Sebastian Osterlund;Pietro Frigo

372
Citations
Drammer: Deterministic Rowhammer Attacks on Mobile Platforms

Victor van der Veen;Yanick Fratantonio;Martina Lindorfer;Daniel Gruss

353
Citations
Practical Context-Sensitive CFI

Victor van der Veen;Dennis Andriesse;Enes Göktaş;Ben Gras

298
Citations
On Botnets That Use DNS for Command and Control.

Christian J. Dietrich;Christian Rossow;Felix C. Freiling;Herbert Bos

294
Citations
Prudent Practices for Designing Malware Experiments: Status Quo and Outlook

C. Rossow;C. J. Dietrich;C. Grier;C. Kreibich

285
Citations
Dowsing for overflows: a guided fuzzer to find buffer boundary violations

Istvan Haller;Asia Slowinska;Matthias Neugschwandtner;Herbert Bos

281
Citations
ASLR on the Line: Practical Cache Attacks on the MMU.

Ben Gras;Kaveh Razavi;Erik Bosman;Herbert Bos

273
Citations
Dedup Est Machina: Memory Deduplication as an Advanced Exploitation Vector

Erik Bosman;Kaveh Razavi;Herbert Bos;Cristiano Giuffrida

254
Citations
A Tough Call: Mitigating Advanced Code-Reuse Attacks at the Binary Level

Victor van der Veen;Enes Goktas;Moritz Contag;Andre Pawoloski

238
Citations
Translation leak-aside buffer : Defeating cache side-channel protections with TLB attacks

Ben Gras;Kaveh Razavi;Herbert Bos;Cristiano Giuffrida

228
Citations
SoK: P2PWNED - Modeling and Evaluating the Resilience of Peer-to-Peer Botnets

C. Rossow;D. Andriesse;T. Werner;B. Stone-Gross

227
Citations
Flip Feng Shui: Hammering a Needle in the Software Stack

Kaveh Razavi;Ben Gras;Erik Bosman;Bart Preneel

227
Citations
Memory errors: the past, the present, and the future

Victor van der Veen;Nitish dutt-Sharma;Lorenzo Cavallaro;Herbert Bos

223
Citations
Howard: A Dynamic Excavator for Reverse Engineering Data Structures.

J.M. Slowinska;T. Stancescu;H.J. Bos

220
Citations
Can we make operating systems reliable and secure

A.S. Tanenbaum;J.N. Herder;H. Bos

211
Citations
MINIX 3: a highly reliable, self-repairing operating system

Jorrit N. Herder;Herbert Bos;Ben Gras;Philip Homburg

205
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Cristiano Giuffrida Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Andrew S. Tanenbaum Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Christian Rossow Saarland University

Thorsten Holz Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy

Evangelos P. Markatos University of Crete

Sotiris Ioannidis Technical University of Crete

Henri E. Bal Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Paul Groth University of Amsterdam

Engin Kirda Northeastern University

Felix C. Freiling University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

External Links

Personal website of Herbert Bos Google Scholar page

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