2026 Kevin R. B. Butler: 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	39	9862	9581	4149	3977	132	5476

Kevin R. B. Butler 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 Kevin R. B. Butler sits on this spectrum.

32 publications 991+

This scientist: 132 publications — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kevin R. B. Butler 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 Kevin R. B. Butler sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Overview

Kevin R. B. Butler is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research primarily lies within the field of Computer Science, encompassing a total of 60 publications. Within this broad domain, they have contributed notably to subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing, and Emergency Medicine.

The research topics covered by Kevin R. B. Butler's work include:

Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Face Recognition and Analysis
Security and Verification in Computing
Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology
Advanced Data Storage Technologies
Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning

They have authored papers published in a range of venues, with frequent contributions to:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
IEEE Security & Privacy

Notable recent papers include:

"A privacy-preserving approach to streaming eye-tracking data" (2021) published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
"Student attitudes toward research in an undergraduate social science research methods course" (2022) published in Higher Education Pedagogies
"Privacy-preserving datasets of eye-tracking samples with applications in XR" (2023) published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
"Privacy-Preserving Gaze Data Streaming in Immersive Interactive Virtual Reality: Robustness and User Experience" (2024) published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
"FuzzUSB: Hybrid Stateful Fuzzing of USB Gadget Stacks" (2022) published in 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)

Kevin R. B. Butler has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

Eakta Jain (14 joint publications)
Patrick Traynor (10 joint publications)
Brendan David-John (7 joint publications)
Azim Ibragimov (6 joint publications)
Diane Hosfelt (5 joint publications)

In addition to journal and conference articles, they have contributed to book publications. One such publication is "Security and Privacy in Communication Networks," released in 2020 under the Lecture notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering series.

Best Publications

A Survey of BGP Security Issues and Solutions

K. Butler;T.R. Farley;P. McDaniel;J. Rexford

546
Citations
CryptoLock (and Drop It): Stopping Ransomware Attacks on User Data

Nolen Scaife;Henry Carter;Patrick Traynor;Kevin R. B. Butler

512
Citations
Secure outsourced garbled circuit evaluation for mobile devices

Henry Carter;Benjamin Mood;Patrick Traynor;Kevin R. B. Butler

250
Citations
Trustworthy whole-system provenance for the Linux kernel

Adam Bates;Dave Tian;Kevin R. B. Butler;Thomas Moyer

222
Citations
Hi-Fi: collecting high-fidelity whole-system provenance

Devin J. Pohly;Stephen McLaughlin;Patrick McDaniel;Kevin Butler

185
Citations
Mo(bile) Money, Mo(bile) Problems: Analysis of Branchless Banking Applications

Bradley Reaves;Jasmine Bowers;Nolen Scaife;Adam Bates

155
Citations
Detecting co-residency with active traffic analysis techniques

Adam Bates;Benjamin Mood;Joe Pletcher;Hannah Pruse

147
Citations
Porscha: policy oriented secure content handling in Android

Machigar Ongtang;Kevin Butler;Patrick McDaniel

142
Citations
PCF: a portable circuit format for scalable two-party secure computation

Ben Kreuter;Benjamin Mood;Abhi Shelat;Kevin Butler

141
Citations
Practical Hidden Voice Attacks against Speech and Speaker Recognition Systems

Hadi Abdullah;Washington Garcia;Christian Peeters;Patrick Traynor

141
Citations
Proceedings of the 30th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference

Charles N. Payne;Adam Hahn;Kevin Butler;Micah Sherr

141
Citations
Frigate: A Validated, Extensible, and Efficient Compiler and Interpreter for Secure Computation

Benjamin Mood;Debayan Gupta;Henry Carter;Kevin Butler

108
Citations
Mo(bile) money, mo(bile) problems: analysis of branchless banking applications in the developing world

Bradley Reaves;Nolen Scaife;Adam Bates;Patrick Traynor

104
Citations
Optimizing BGP security by exploiting path stability

Kevin Butler;Patrick McDaniel;William Aiello

99
Citations
Defending Against Malicious USB Firmware with GoodUSB

Dave Jing Tian;Adam Bates;Kevin Butler

96
Citations
Let SDN Be Your Eyes: Secure Forensics in Data Center Networks

Adam Bates;Kevin Butler;Andreas Haeberlen;Micah Sherr

93
Citations
Towards secure provenance-based access control in cloud environments

Adam Bates;Ben Mood;Masoud Valafar;Kevin Butler

93
Citations
On detecting co-resident cloud instances using network flow watermarking techniques

Adam Bates;Benjamin Mood;Joe Pletcher;Hannah Pruse

85
Citations
adroid: Assessment and Evaluation of Android Application Analysis Tools

Bradley Reaves;Jasmine Bowers;Sigmund Albert Gorski;Olabode Anise

75
Citations
A privacy-preserving approach to streaming eye-tracking data

Brendan David-John;Diane Hosfelt;Kevin Butler;Eakta Jain

73
Citations
Origin authentication in interdomain routing

Patrick McDaniel;William Aiello;Kevin Butler;John Ioannidis

42
Citations
FirmUSB: Vetting USB Device Firmware using Domain Informed Symbolic Execution

Grant Hernandez;Farhaan Fowze;Dave (Jing) Tian;Tuba Yavuz

28
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Traynor University of Florida

Patrick McDaniel University of Wisconsin–Madison

William Enck North Carolina State University

Trent Jaeger Pennsylvania State University

Somesh Jha University of Wisconsin–Madison

Joan Feigenbaum Yale University

Dan S. Wallach Rice University

William Aiello University of British Columbia

Jennifer Rexford Princeton University

Swarup Bhunia University of Florida

External Links

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