2026 K. Rustan M. Leino: 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	57	3774	3669	1802	1738	147	16529

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Computer Science

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Research.com Recognitions

2016 - ACM Fellow For contributions to making program verification accessible and practical.

Overview

K. Rustan M. Leino is affiliated with Amazon Web Services in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Computer Science with a significant concentration on Artificial Intelligence.

Their work spans several subfields, including:

Artificial Intelligence
Software
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Computational Theory and Mathematics

Several main topics characterize their research contributions:

Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
Advanced Neural Network Applications
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
Formal Methods in Verification
Logic, programming, and type systems
Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge

Leino's publication record includes papers in the venue arXiv (Cornell University), with 11 publications there. Among their recent papers are:

"Globally-Robust Neural Networks," 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
"Self-Correcting Neural Networks For Safe Classification," 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
"Relaxing Local Robustness," 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent coauthors with whom they have collaborated include:

Matt Fredrikson
Corina S. Păsăreanu
Ravi Mangal
Aymeric Fromherz
Bryan Parno

Their recognized contributions were acknowledged with the ACM Fellow award in 2016 for contributions to making program verification accessible and practical.

Best Publications

Extended static checking for Java

Cormac Flanagan;K. Rustan M. Leino;Mark Lillibridge;Greg Nelson

1895
Citations
The spec# programming system: an overview

Mike Barnett;K. Rustan M. Leino;Wolfram Schulte

1437
Citations
Boogie: a modular reusable verifier for object-oriented programs

Mike Barnett;Bor-Yuh Evan Chang;Robert DeLine;Bart Jacobs

1237
Citations
Dafny: an automatic program verifier for functional correctness

K. Rustan M. Leino

1175
Citations
An overview of JML tools and applications

Lilian Burdy;Yoonsik Cheon;David R. Cok;Michael D. Ernst

1082
Citations
Extended static checking

K. Rustan M. Leino

634
Citations
Houdini, an Annotation Assistant for ESC/Java

Cormac Flanagan;K. Rustan M. Leino

539
Citations
Verification of object-oriented programs with invariants

Michael Barnett;Robert DeLine;Manuel Fähndrich;K. Rustan M. Leino

463
Citations
Boogie: a modular reusable verifier for object-oriented programs

Mike Barnett;Bor-Yuh Evan Chang;Robert Deline;Bart Jacobs

379
Citations
Object invariants in dynamic contexts

K. Rustan M. Leino;Peter Müller

315
Citations
Weakest-precondition of unstructured programs

Mike Barnett;K. Rustan M. Leino

313
Citations
Declaring and checking non-null types in an object-oriented language

Manuel Fähndrich;K. Rustan M. Leino

266
Citations
A logic of object-oriented programs

Martín Abadi;K. Rustan M. Leino

262
Citations
A semantic approach to secure information flow

Rajeev Joshi;K. Rustan M. Leino

252
Citations
JML (poster session): notations and tools supporting detailed design in Java

Gary T. Leavens;Clyde Ruby;K. Rustan M. Leino;Erik Poll

246
Citations
Behavioral interface specification languages

John Hatcliff;Gary T. Leavens;K. Rustan M. Leino;Peter Müller

239
Citations
Specification and verification: the Spec# experience

Mike Barnett;Manuel Fähndrich;K. Rustan M. Leino;Peter Müller

236
Citations
Data groups: specifying the modification of extended state

K. Rustan M. Leino

219
Citations
Efficient weakest preconditions

K. Rustan M. Leino

216
Citations
A Basis for Verifying Multi-threaded Programs

K. Rustan Leino;Peter Müller

211
Citations
BoogiePL: A typed procedural language for checking object-oriented programs

Robert DeLine;K. Rustan M. Leino

210
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Müller ETH Zurich

Wolfram Schulte Microsoft (United States)

Bart Jacobs Radboud University

Gary T. Leavens University of Central Florida

Robert DeLine Microsoft (United States)

Cormac Flanagan University of California, Santa Cruz

Manuel Fähndrich Google (United States)

Parosh Aziz Abdulla Uppsala University

Mark Lillibridge Meta Platforms, Inc.

Frank Piessens KU Leuven

External Links

Personal website of K. Rustan M. Leino Google Scholar page

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