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62
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2940
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Herbert Bos 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 Herbert Bos sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 242 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Herbert Bos 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 Herbert Bos sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% 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

  • 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

  • Paranoid Android: versatile protection for smartphones

    Georgios Portokalidis;Philip Homburg;Kostas Anagnostakis;Herbert Bos

  • Out of Control: Overcoming Control-Flow Integrity

    Enes Goktas;Elias Athanasopoulos;Herbert Bos;Georgios Portokalidis

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

    Georgios Portokalidis;Asia Slowinska;Herbert Bos

  • RIDL: Rogue In-Flight Data Load

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

  • Drammer: Deterministic Rowhammer Attacks on Mobile Platforms

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

  • Practical Context-Sensitive CFI

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

  • On Botnets That Use DNS for Command and Control.

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

  • Prudent Practices for Designing Malware Experiments: Status Quo and Outlook

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

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

    Istvan Haller;Asia Slowinska;Matthias Neugschwandtner;Herbert Bos

  • ASLR on the Line: Practical Cache Attacks on the MMU.

    Ben Gras;Kaveh Razavi;Erik Bosman;Herbert Bos

  • Dedup Est Machina: Memory Deduplication as an Advanced Exploitation Vector

    Erik Bosman;Kaveh Razavi;Herbert Bos;Cristiano Giuffrida

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

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

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

    Ben Gras;Kaveh Razavi;Herbert Bos;Cristiano Giuffrida

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

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

  • Flip Feng Shui: Hammering a Needle in the Software Stack

    Kaveh Razavi;Ben Gras;Erik Bosman;Bart Preneel

  • Memory errors: the past, the present, and the future

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

  • Howard: A Dynamic Excavator for Reverse Engineering Data Structures.

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

  • Can we make operating systems reliable and secure

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

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Cristiano Giuffrida
Cristiano Giuffrida Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Andrew S. Tanenbaum Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Christian Rossow
Christian Rossow Saarland University
Thorsten Holz
Thorsten Holz Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
Evangelos P. Markatos
Evangelos P. Markatos University of Crete
Sotiris Ioannidis
Sotiris Ioannidis Technical University of Crete
Henri E. Bal
Henri E. Bal Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Paul Groth
Paul Groth University of Amsterdam
Engin Kirda
Engin Kirda Northeastern University
Felix C. Freiling
Felix C. Freiling University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

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