2026 Maire O'Neill: 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	32	13289	12894	843	830	123	3423

Research.com Recognitions

2017 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

Maire O'Neill is affiliated with Queen's University Belfast in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, with a focus on subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Hardware and Architecture, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Their work covers multiple main topics such as Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security, Integrated Circuits and Semiconductor Failure Analysis, Neuroscience and Neural Engineering, Advanced Memory and Neural Computing, Cryptographic Implementations and Security, Cryptography and Data Security, and Chaos-based Image/Signal Encryption.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Maire O'Neill include Weiqiang Liu, Chongyan Gu, Ayesha Khalid, Chenghua Wang, and Dur-e-Shahwar Kundi.

They have published extensively in a variety of venues, particularly:

IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems II Express Briefs

Some recent publications include:

Ten years of hardware Trojans: a survey from the attacker's perspective, 2020, IET Computers & Digital Techniques
A Modeling Attack Resistant Deception Technique for Securing Lightweight-PUF-Based Authentication, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Ultra High-Speed Polynomial Multiplications for Lattice-Based Cryptography on FPGAs, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
Security in Approximate Computing and Approximate Computing for Security: Challenges and Opportunities, 2020, Proceedings of the IEEE
Resource-Shared Crypto-Coprocessor of AES Enc/Dec With SHA-3, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers

Maire O'Neill was awarded the title of Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2017.

Best Publications

A First Step Toward Cost Functions for Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata Designs

Weiqiang Liu;Liang Lu;Maire ONeill;Earl E. Swartzlander

245
Citations
Neural network based attack on a masked implementation of AES

Richard Gilmore;Neil Hanley;Maire O'Neill

153
Citations
FPGA Implementations of the Round Two SHA-3 Candidates

Brian Baldwin;Andrew Byrne;Liang Lu;Mark Hamilton

133
Citations
Are QCA cryptographic circuits resistant to power analysis attack

Weiqiang Liu;S. Srivastava;Liang Lu;M. O'Neill

131
Citations
Design rules for Quantum-dot Cellular Automata

Weiqiang Liu;Liang Lu;Maire O'Neill;Earl E. Swartzlander

124
Citations
Optimized Schoolbook Polynomial Multiplication for Compact Lattice-Based Cryptography on FPGA

Weiqiang Liu;Sailong Fan;Ayesha Khalid;Ciara Rafferty

123
Citations
QCA Systolic Array Design

Liang Lu;Weiqiang Liu;M. O'Neill;E. E. Swartzlander

110
Citations
On Practical Discrete Gaussian Samplers for Lattice-Based Cryptography

James Howe;Ayesha Khalid;Ciara Rafferty;Francesco Regazzoni

100
Citations
Practical homomorphic encryption: A survey

Ciara Moore;Maire O'Neill;Elizabeth O'Sullivan;Yarkin Doroz

100
Citations
Insecurity by Design: Today's IoT Device Security Problem

Maire O’Neill

99
Citations
Hardware Comparison of the ISO/IEC 29192-2 Block Ciphers

Neil Hanley;Maire ONeill

91
Citations
Ten years of hardware Trojans: a survey from the attacker's perspective

Mingfu Xue;Chongyan Gu;Weiqiang Liu;Shichao Yu

89
Citations
Low-Cost SHA-1 Hash Function Architecture for RFID Tags

Maire O'Neill

84
Citations
Practical Lattice-Based Digital Signature Schemes

James Howe;Thomas Pöppelmann;Máire O'neill;Elizabeth O'sullivan

79
Citations
Design of Semiconductor QCA Systems

Weiqiang Liu;Maire O'Neill;Earl Swartzlander

72
Citations
FPGA implementation and analysis of random delay insertion countermeasure against DPA

Yingxi Lu;M.P. O'Neill;J.V. McCanny

72
Citations
A Tunable Encryption Scheme and Analysis of Fast Selective Encryption for CAVLC and CABAC in H.264/AVC

Yongsheng Wang;Maire O'Neill;Fatih Kurugollu

68
Citations
Common Control Channel security framework for Cognitive Radio networks

G.A. Safdar;Maire O'Neill

63
Citations
Common Control Channel Security Framework for Cognitive Radio Networks

G. A. Safdar;M. O'Neill

63
Citations
Ultra High-Speed Polynomial Multiplications for Lattice-Based Cryptography on FPGAs

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59
Citations
A Modeling Attack Resistant Deception Technique for Securing Lightweight-PUF-Based Authentication

Chongyan Gu;Chip-Hong Chang;Weiqiang Liu;Shichao Yu

58
Citations
Improved Reliability of FPGA-Based PUF Identification Generator Design

Chongyan Gu;Neil Hanley;Máire O'neill

56
Citations
XOR-Based Low-Cost Reconfigurable PUFs for IoT Security

Weiqiang Liu;Lei Zhang;Zhengran Zhang;Chongyan Gu

52
Citations
Security in Approximate Computing and Approximate Computing for Security: Challenges and Opportunities

Weiqiang Liu;Chongyan Gu;Maire O'Neill;Gang Qu

50
Citations
Low-cost configurable ring oscillator PUF with improved uniqueness

Yijun Cui;Chenghua Wang;Weiqiang Liu;Yifei Yu

43
Citations
A machine learning attack resistant multi-PUF design on FPGA

Qingqing Ma;Chongyan Gu;Neil Hanley;Chenghua Wang

26
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Earl E. Swartzlander The University of Texas at Austin

Fabrizio Lombardi Northeastern University

Francesco Regazzoni Polytechnic University of Milan

Tim Güneysu Ruhr University Bochum

Chip-Hong Chang Nanyang Technological University

William P. Marnane University College Cork

Sakir Sezer Queen's University Belfast

Gang Qu University of Maryland, College Park

Alex Yakovlev Newcastle University

Patrick Schaumont Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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