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Nael Abu-Ghazaleh 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 Nael Abu-Ghazaleh sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 235 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Nael Abu-Ghazaleh 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 Nael Abu-Ghazaleh sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% 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

  • 2020 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

Nael Abu-Ghazaleh is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their primary field of study is computer science, with a focus on several specialized subfields including artificial intelligence, electrical and electronic engineering, signal processing, hardware and architecture, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

The scientist has contributed extensively to research topics such as adversarial robustness in machine learning, security and verification in computing, physical unclonable functions (PUFs) and hardware security, internet traffic analysis and secure e-voting, anomaly detection techniques and applications, advanced malware detection techniques, and advanced neural network applications.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Spectre Returns! Speculation Attacks Using the Return Stack Buffer, 2024, IEEE Design and Test
  • Survey of Vulnerabilities in Large Language Models Revealed by Adversarial Attacks, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • DNS Poisoning of Operating System Caches: Attacks and Mitigations, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  • Efficient Hardware Malware Detectors That are Resilient to Adversarial Evasion, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • ROOM: Adversarial Machine Learning Attacks Under Real-Time Constraints, 2022, 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)

Their research has been published in various venues, with the most frequent including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Design and Test
  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)

Nael Abu-Ghazaleh has collaborated primarily with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Ihsen Alouani
  • Erfan Shayegani
  • Khaled N. Khasawneh
  • Hoda Naghibijouybari
  • Bilel Tarchoun

The contributions of Nael Abu-Ghazaleh have been recognized through awards such as the ACM Distinguished Member designation received in 2020.

Best Publications

  • A taxonomy of wireless micro-sensor network models

    Sameer Tilak;Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh;Wendi Heinzelman

  • Preemptive routing in ad hoc networks

    Tom Goff;Nael Abu-Ghazaleh;Dhananjay Phatak;Ridvan Kahvecioglu

  • Infrastructure tradeoffs for sensor networks

    Sameer Tilak;Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh;Wendi Heinzelman

  • Automatic Clustering for Self-Organizing Grids

    Weishuai Yang;Nael Abu-Ghazaleh;M.J. Lewis

  • Wireless Software Defined Networking: A Survey and Taxonomy

    Israat Tanzeena Haque;Nael Abu-Ghazaleh

  • Non-monopolizable caches: Low-complexity mitigation of cache side channel attacks

    Leonid Domnitser;Aamer Jaleel;Jason Loew;Nael Abu-Ghazaleh

  • Spectre returns! speculation attacks using the return stack buffer

    Esmaeil Mohammadian Koruyeh;Khaled N. Khasawneh;Chengyu Song;Nael Abu-Ghazaleh

  • Jump over ASLR: attacking branch predictors to bypass ASLR

    Dmitry Evtyushkin;Dmitry Ponomarev;Nael Abu-Ghazaleh

  • Rendered Insecure: GPU Side Channel Attacks are Practical

    Hoda Naghibijouybari;Ajaya Neupane;Zhiyun Qian;Nael Abu-Ghazaleh

  • Malware-aware processors: A framework for efficient online malware detection

    Meltem Ozsoy;Caleb Donovick;Iakov Gorelik;Nael Abu-Ghazaleh

  • GPS: a general peer-to-peer simulator and its use for modeling BitTorrent

    W. Yang;N. Abu-Ghazaleh

  • SafeSpec: Banishing the Spectre of a Meltdown with Leakage-Free Speculation

    Khaled N. Khasawneh;Esmaeil Mohammadian Koruyeh;Chengyu Song;Dmitry Evtyushkin

  • Location verification and trust management for resilient geographic routing

    Ke Liu;Nael Abu-Ghazaleh;Kyoung-Don Kang

  • Dynamic localization control for mobile sensor networks

    Sameer Tilak;Vinay Kolar;N.B. Abu-Ghazaleh;K.-D. Kang

  • A high-resolution side-channel attack on last-level cache

    Mehmet Kayaalp;Dmitry Ponomarev;Nael Abu-Ghazaleh;Aamer Jaleel

  • Branch regulation: low-overhead protection from code reuse attacks

    Mehmet Kayaalp;Meltem Ozsoy;Nael Abu-Ghazaleh;Dmitry Ponomarev

  • Ensemble Learning for Low-Level Hardware-Supported Malware Detection

    Khaled N. Khasawneh;Meltem Ozsoy;Caleb Donovick;Nael Abu-Ghazaleh

  • Iso-X: A Flexible Architecture for Hardware-Managed Isolated Execution

    Dmitry Evtyushkin;Jesse Elwell;Meltem Ozsoy;Dmitry Ponomarev

  • Hardware-Based Malware Detection Using Low-Level Architectural Features

    Meltem Ozsoy;Khaled N. Khasawneh;Caleb Donovick;Iakov Gorelik

  • Coverage algorithms for visual sensor networks

    Vikram P. Munishwar;Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh

Frequent Co-Authors

Dmitry Ponomarev
Dmitry Ponomarev Binghamton University
Khaled A. Harras
Khaled A. Harras Carnegie Mellon University
Wendi Heinzelman
Wendi Heinzelman University of Rochester
Zhiyun Qian
Zhiyun Qian University of California, Riverside
Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini
Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini Polytechnic University of Turin
Petri Mahonen
Petri Mahonen Aalto University
Aamer Jaleel
Aamer Jaleel Nvidia (United States)
Janne Riihijarvi
Janne Riihijarvi RWTH Aachen University
Barry W. Williams
Barry W. Williams University of Strathclyde
Sotiris Nikoletseas
Sotiris Nikoletseas University of Patras

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