2026 Marco Pistoia: 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	37	10608	10310	4440	4256	224	7057

Overview

Marco Pistoia is affiliated with JPMorgan Chase & Co in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of computer science, with a strong focus on artificial intelligence. The scholar's work also covers subfields including atomic and molecular physics and optics, computational theory and mathematics, electrical and electronic engineering, and hardware and architecture.

The research topics that define this scientist's portfolio include:

Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
Quantum Information and Cryptography
Quantum Mechanics and Applications
Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata
Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques
Neural Networks and Applications

Recent papers authored or coauthored by this researcher include:

Quantum computing for finance, 2023, published in Nature Reviews Physics
Quantum equation of motion for computing molecular excitation energies on a noisy quantum processor, 2020, Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)
Reducing Qubit Requirements for Quantum Simulations Using Molecular Point Group Symmetries, 2020, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
A Survey of Quantum Computing for Finance, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
Evidence of scaling advantage for the quantum approximate optimization algorithm on a classically intractable problem, 2024, Science Advances

Marco Pistoia has frequently collaborated with other scholars, notably:

Ruslan Shaydulin
Dylan Herman
Shouvanik Chakrabarti
Romina Yalovetzky
Pierre Minssen

The primary publication venues for their work are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Scientific Reports
Quantum
Physical Review Research

Best Publications

Qiskit: An Open-source Framework for Quantum Computing

Gadi Aleksandrowicz;Thomas Alexander;Panagiotis Barkoutsos;Luciano Bello

1564
Citations
TAJ: effective taint analysis of web applications

Omer Tripp;Marco Pistoia;Stephen J. Fink;Manu Sridharan

452
Citations
Static Specification Mining Using Automata-Based Abstractions

S. Shoham;E. Yahav;S.J. Fink;M. Pistoia

259
Citations
Method, system and computer program product for enforcing privacy policies

Lawrence Koved;Marco Pistoia

199
Citations
Directed test generation for effective fault localization

Shay Artzi;Julian Dolby;Frank Tip;Marco Pistoia

196
Citations
Saving the world wide web from vulnerable JavaScript

Salvatore Guarnieri;Marco Pistoia;Omer Tripp;Julian Dolby

184
Citations
System and method for supporting digital rights management in an enhanced Java™ 2 runtime environment

Lawrence Koved;Magda M. Mourad;Jonathan P. Munson;Giovanni Pacifici

182
Citations
Static specification mining using automata-based abstractions

Sharon Shoham;Eran Yahav;Stephen Fink;Marco Pistoia

177
Citations
ANDROMEDA: accurate and scalable security analysis of web applications

Omer Tripp;Marco Pistoia;Patrick Cousot;Radhia Cousot

176
Citations
Access rights analysis for Java

Larry Koved;Marco Pistoia;Aaron Kershenbaum

145
Citations
Interprocedural analysis for privileged code placement and tainted variable detection

Marco Pistoia;Robert J. Flynn;Larry Koved;Vugranam C. Sreedhar

142
Citations
A survey of static analysis methods for identifying security vulnerabilities in software systems

M. Pistoia;S. Chandra;S. J. Fink;E. Yahav

126
Citations
F4F: taint analysis of framework-based web applications

Manu Sridharan;Shay Artzi;Marco Pistoia;Salvatore Guarnieri

123
Citations
Path- and index-sensitive string analysis based on monadic second-order logic

Takaaki Tateishi;Marco Pistoia;Omer Tripp

116
Citations
Practical fault localization for dynamic web applications

Shay Artzi;Julian Dolby;Frank Tip;Marco Pistoia

113
Citations
Automatic detection of inter-application permission leaks in Android applications

D. Sbîrlea;M. G. Burke;S. Guarnieri;M. Pistoia

111
Citations
Method and system for run-time dynamic and interactive identification of software authorization requirements and privileged code locations, and for validation of other software program analysis results

Paolina Centonze;Jose Gomes;Marco Pistoia

109
Citations
Software verification system, method and computer program element

Paul Harry Abbott;Lawrence Koved;Anthony Joseph Nadalin;Marco Pistoia

102
Citations
Dynamic detection of inter-application communication vulnerabilities in Android

Roee Hay;Omer Tripp;Marco Pistoia

100
Citations
Transparent digital rights management for extendible content viewers

Magda M. Mourad;Jonathan P. Munson;Tamer Nadeem;Giovanni Pacifici

91
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Julian Dolby IBM (United States)

Frank Tip Northeastern University

Jay M. Gambetta IBM (United States)

Stephen J. Fink Facebook (United States)

Manu Sridharan University of California, Riverside

Eran Yahav Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Guy M. Cohen IBM (United States)

Birgit Pfitzmann IBM (United States)

Ulfar Erlingsson Lacework

Giovanni Pacifici IBM (United States)

External Links

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