2026 Hovav Shacham: 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	44	7341	7127	3196	3074	94	33050

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Current World Ranking

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Computer Science

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Overview

Hovav Shacham is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Hardware and Architecture, Signal Processing, Software, and Information Systems.

The research topics covered by Shacham include:

Security and Verification in Computing
Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security
Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
Web Application Security Vulnerabilities
Cryptographic Implementations and Security

Recent papers authored by Shacham and collaborators include:

"Hertzbleed: Turning Power Side-Channel Attacks Into Remote Timing Attacks on x86" (2023), published in IEEE Micro
"Automated policy synthesis for system call sandboxing" (2020), published in Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
"Swivel: Hardening WebAssembly against Spectre" (2021), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
"Towards a Verified Range Analysis for JavaScript JITs: Artifact" (2020), published in Artifact Digital Object Group
"Constant-Time Wasmtime, for Real This Time: End-to-End Verified Zero-Overhead Constant-Time Programming for the Web and Beyond" (2023), published in arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent coauthors working with Shacham include:

Deian Stefan
Shravan Narayan
Craig Disselkoen
Sorin Lerner
Garrett Gu

Shacham's publications appear most often in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Micro, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, and Artifact Digital Object Group.

Best Publications

Short Signatures from the Weil Pairing

Dan Boneh;Ben Lynn;Hovav Shacham

5954
Citations
Hey, you, get off of my cloud: exploring information leakage in third-party compute clouds

Thomas Ristenpart;Eran Tromer;Hovav Shacham;Stefan Savage

2904
Citations
Short Group Signatures.

Dan Boneh;Xavier Boyen;Hovav Shacham

2734
Citations
Aggregate and verifiably encrypted signatures from bilinear maps

Dan Boneh;Craig Gentry;Ben Lynn;Hovav Shacham

2687
Citations
Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile

Karl Koscher;Alexei Czeskis;Franziska Roesner;Shwetak Patel

2396
Citations
Compact Proofs of Retrievability

Hovav Shacham;Brent Waters

2208
Citations
Comprehensive experimental analyses of automotive attack surfaces

Stephen Checkoway;Damon McCoy;Brian Kantor;Danny Anderson

1924
Citations
The geometry of innocent flesh on the bone: return-into-libc without function calls (on the x86)

Hovav Shacham

1868
Citations
On the effectiveness of address-space randomization

Hovav Shacham;Matthew Page;Ben Pfaff;Eu-Jin Goh

1300
Citations
Group signatures with verifier-local revocation

Dan Boneh;Hovav Shacham

816
Citations
SiRiUS: Securing Remote Untrusted Storage.

Eu-Jin Goh;Hovav Shacham;Nagendra Modadugu;Dan Boneh

792
Citations
Return-oriented programming without returns

Stephen Checkoway;Lucas Davi;Alexandra Dmitrienko;Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

774
Citations
Return-Oriented Programming: Systems, Languages, and Applications

Ryan Roemer;Erik Buchanan;Hovav Shacham;Stefan Savage

688
Citations
When good instructions go bad: generalizing return-oriented programming to RISC

Erik Buchanan;Ryan Roemer;Hovav Shacham;Stefan Savage

545
Citations
Sequential aggregate signatures from trapdoor permutations

Anna Lysyanskaya;Silvio Micali;Leonid Reyzin;Hovav Shacham

490
Citations
Sequential Aggregate Signatures and Multisignatures without Random Oracles.

Steve Lu;Rafail Ostrovsky;Amit Sahai;Hovav Shacham

464
Citations
Randomizable Proofs and Delegatable Anonymous Credentials

Mira Belenkiy;Jan Camenisch;Melissa Chase;Markulf Kohlweiss

352
Citations
Iago attacks: why the system call API is a bad untrusted RPC interface

Stephen Checkoway;Hovav Shacham

301
Citations
An empirical study of privacy-violating information flows in JavaScript web applications

Dongseok Jang;Ranjit Jhala;Sorin Lerner;Hovav Shacham

265
Citations
On Subnormal Floating Point and Abnormal Timing

Marc Andrysco;David Kohlbrenner;Keaton Mowery;Ranjit Jhala

218
Citations
Eliminating fine grained timers in Xen

Bhanu C. Vattikonda;Sambit Das;Hovav Shacham

201
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Brent Waters The University of Texas at Austin

Dan Boneh Stanford University

Stefan Savage University of California, San Diego

Anna Lysyanskaya Brown University

Thomas Ristenpart Cornell University

Xavier Boyen Queensland University of Technology

Amit Sahai University of California, Los Angeles

Rafail Ostrovsky University of California, Los Angeles

Matthew Green Johns Hopkins University

Leonid Reyzin Boston University

External Links

Personal website of Hovav Shacham Google Scholar page

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