2026 James Joshi: 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	42	8223	7988	3528	3394	239	10636

James Joshi 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 James Joshi sits on this spectrum.

32 publications 991+

This scientist: 239 publications — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

James Joshi 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 James Joshi sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 43rd percentile

43% 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 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for Distinguished Contributions to Cybersecurity, Trust, and Privacy
2023 - Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Information Association (AAIA)
2023 - IEEE Fellow for Contributions in Access Control and Privacy
2017 - ACM Distinguished Member
2013 - ACM Senior Member
2013 - Fellow of the Society of Information Reuse and Integration (SIRI)

Overview

James Joshi is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States and works primarily in the field of Computer Science. Their research spans multiple subfields, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems, Computer Networks and Communications, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

Their work predominantly addresses topics related to Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data, Cryptography and Data Security, Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting, Access Control and Trust, Blockchain Technology Applications and Security, IoT and Edge/Fog Computing, and Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning.

James Joshi has published extensively, with recent papers including:

An Automatic Attribute-Based Access Control Policy Extraction From Access Logs, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
Semantic Encryption/Decryption: Utilizing Preprocessing of Data as a Security Mechanism in Machine Learning Models, 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)
NN-EMD: Efficiently Training Neural Networks Using Encrypted Multi-Sourced Datasets, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
TAPFed: Threshold Secure Aggregation for Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning, 2024, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
FedV: Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning over Vertically Partitioned Data, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

Runhua Xu
Leila Karimi
Mai Abdelhakim
Chao Li
Maryam Aldairi

The scientist has published primarily in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
Computers & Security
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

James Joshi has been recognized as an ACM Distinguished Member since 2017 and an ACM Senior Member since 2013.

Best Publications

Security and Privacy Challenges in Cloud Computing Environments

H Takabi;J B D Joshi;G Ahn

1895
Citations
A Survey of Defense Mechanisms Against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Flooding Attacks

Saman Taghavi Zargar;James Joshi;David Tipper

1670
Citations
A generalized temporal role-based access control model

J.B.D. Joshi;E. Bertino;U. Latif;A. Ghafoor

841
Citations
Security models for web-based applications

James B. D. Joshi;Walid G. Aref;Arif Ghafoor;Eugene H. Spafford

460
Citations
Secure interoperation in a multidomain environment employing RBAC policies

B. Shafiq;J.B.D. Joshi;E. Bertino;A. Ghafoor

312
Citations
Digital Government Security Infrastructure Design Challenges

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281
Citations
Digital government security infrastructure design challenges

J. Joshi;A. Ghafoor;W.G. Aref;E.H. Spafford

280
Citations
Access-control language for multidomain environments

J.B.D. Joshi

229
Citations
X-GTRBAC: an XML-based policy specification framework and architecture for enterprise-wide access control

Rafae Bhatti;Arif Ghafoor;Elisa Bertino;James B. D. Joshi

216
Citations
LoT-RBAC : A location and time-based RBAC model

Suroop Mohan Chandran;J. B. D. Joshi

203
Citations
SecureCloud: Towards a Comprehensive Security Framework for Cloud Computing Environments

Hassan Takabi;James B. D. Joshi;Gail-Joon Ahn

167
Citations
IPv6 Security Challenges

C.E. Caicedo;J.B.D. Joshi;S.R. Tuladhar

158
Citations
Towards active detection of identity clone attacks on online social networks

Lei Jin;Hassan Takabi;James B.D. Joshi

158
Citations
Temporal hierarchies and inheritance semantics for GTRBAC

James B D Joshi;Elisa Bertino;Arif Ghafoor

154
Citations
XML-based specification for Web services document security

R. Bhatti;E. Bertino;A. Ghafoor;J.B.D. Joshi

135
Citations
Access Control in Dynamic XML-Based Web-Services with X-RBAC.

Rafae Bhatti;James B. D. Joshi;Elisa Bertino;Arif Ghafoor

125
Citations
Exploring trajectory-driven local geographic topics in foursquare

Xuelian Long;Lei Jin;James Joshi

115
Citations
An adaptive risk management and access control framework to mitigate insider threats

Nathalie Baracaldo;James Joshi

108
Citations
Dependencies and separation of duty constraints in GTRBAC

James B. D. Joshi;Basit Shafiq;Arif Ghafoor;Elisa Bertino

106
Citations
OSNAC: An Ontology-based Access Control Model for Social Networking Systems

Amirreza Masoumzadeh;James Joshi

93
Citations
A generalized temporal role based access control model for developing secure systems

James B. D. Joshi;Arif Ghafoor

12
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Elisa Bertino Purdue University West Lafayette

Arif Ghafoor Purdue University West Lafayette

Eugene H. Spafford Purdue University West Lafayette

George Varghese University of California, Los Angeles

Larry L. Peterson Princeton University

Saurabh Bagchi Purdue University West Lafayette

Rajiv Ramaswami Nortel (Canada)

Bruce S. Davie VMware

Mei-Ling Shyu University of Missouri–Kansas City

Bhavani Thuraisingham The University of Texas at Dallas

External Links

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