2026 Hongxin Hu: 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	48	6227	6048	2789	2688	181	8228

Overview

Hongxin Hu is affiliated with the University at Buffalo, State University of New York in the United States. Their research activities mainly focus on the field of Computer Science, with significant contributions to Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Signal Processing, Information Systems, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's research encompasses various topics, including:

Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
Network Security and Intrusion Detection
Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
Software-Defined Networks and 5G
Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection

Hongxin Hu has published extensively, with papers appearing frequently in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
SSRN Electronic Journal
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Some recent publications include:

Measuring the Effectiveness of Privacy Policies for Voice Assistant Applications, 2020, Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
IoT-Praetor: Undesired Behaviors Detection for IoT Devices, 2020, IEEE Internet of Things Journal
Rallying Adversarial Techniques against Deep Learning for Network Security, 2021, 2021 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI)
Paving the Way for NFV Acceleration, 2020, ACM Computing Surveys
SysFlow: Toward a Programmable Zero Trust Framework for System Security, 2023, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

The researcher collaborates regularly with a number of frequent coauthors, including Song Liao, Long Cheng, Mengda Yang, Nishant Vishwamitra, and Xiaoyang Xu.

Best Publications

Cooperative Provable Data Possession for Integrity Verification in Multicloud Storage

Yan Zhu;Hongxin Hu;Gail-Joon Ahn;Mengyang Yu

682
Citations
Dynamic Audit Services for Outsourced Storages in Clouds

Yan Zhu;Gail-Joon Ahn;Hongxin Hu;S. S. Yau

439
Citations
Dynamic audit services for integrity verification of outsourced storages in clouds

Yan Zhu;Huaixi Wang;Zexing Hu;Gail-Joon Ahn

375
Citations
FLOWGUARD: building robust firewalls for software-defined networks

Hongxin Hu;Wonkyu Han;Gail-Joon Ahn;Ziming Zhao

354
Citations
Multiparty Access Control for Online Social Networks: Model and Mechanisms

Hongxin Hu;Gail-Joon Ahn;J. Jorgensen

289
Citations
NFP: Enabling Network Function Parallelism in NFV

Chen Sun;Jun Bi;Zhilong Zheng;Heng Yu

262
Citations
Detecting and Resolving Firewall Policy Anomalies

Hongxin Hu;Gail-Joon Ahn;K. Kulkarni

216
Citations
Poseidon: Mitigating Volumetric DDoS Attacks with Programmable Switches.

Menghao Zhang;Guanyu Li;Shicheng Wang;Chang Liu

209
Citations
Efficient provable data possession for hybrid clouds.

Yan Zhu;Huaixi Wang;Zexing Hu;Gail-Joon Ahn

204
Citations
On the Safety of IoT Device Physical Interaction Control

Wenbo Ding;Hongxin Hu

175
Citations
Detecting and resolving privacy conflicts for collaborative data sharing in online social networks

Hongxin Hu;Gail-Joon Ahn;Jan Jorgensen

172
Citations
Efficient audit service outsourcing for data integrity in clouds

Yan Zhu;Hongxin Hu;Gail-Joon Ahn;Stephen S. Yau

144
Citations
Secure sharing of electronic health records in clouds

Ruoyu Wu;Gail-Joon Ahn;Hongxin Hu

125
Citations
Towards temporal access control in cloud computing

Yan Zhu;Hongxin Hu;Gail-Joon Ahn;Dijiang Huang

124
Citations
Morpheus: automatically generating heuristics to detect Android emulators

Yiming Jing;Ziming Zhao;Gail-Joon Ahn;Hongxin Hu

118
Citations
Cyberbullying Detection with a Pronunciation Based Convolutional Neural Network

Xiang Zhang;Jonathan Tong;Nishant Vishwamitra;Elizabeth Whittaker

114
Citations
Information flow control in cloud computing

Ruoyu Wu;Gail-Joon Ahn;Hongxin Hu;Mukesh Singhal

111
Citations
Patient-centric authorization framework for sharing electronic health records

Jing Jin;Gail-Joon Ahn;Hongxin Hu;Michael J. Covington

104
Citations
Enabling verification and conformance testing for access control model

Hongxin Hu;GailJoon Ahn

101
Citations
Effectiveness and Users' Experience of Obfuscation as a Privacy-Enhancing Technology for Sharing Photos

Yifang Li;Nishant Vishwamitra;Bart P. Knijnenburg;Hongxin Hu

100
Citations
RiskMon: continuous and automated risk assessment of mobile applications

Yiming Jing;Gail-Joon Ahn;Ziming Zhao;Hongxin Hu

98
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gail-Joon Ahn Arizona State University

Jun Bi Tsinghua University

Guofei Gu Texas A&M University

Stephen S. Yau Arizona State University

Xinwen Zhang Samsung (South Korea)

Bart P. Knijnenburg Clemson University

Jean-Pierre Seifert Technical University of Berlin

Robin M. Kowalski Clemson University

Thomas J. Holt Michigan State University

Hai Xiao Clemson University

External Links

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