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44
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7708
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7597
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3294

Patrick Traynor 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 Patrick Traynor sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 150 publications — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Patrick Traynor 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 Patrick Traynor sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 44 D-Index — 48th percentile

48% 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

  • 2014 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  • 2014 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Patrick Traynor is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Information Systems, Signal Processing, and Artificial Intelligence. They have contributed publications to topics related to Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Spam and Phishing Detection, Advanced Malware Detection Techniques, and User Authentication and Security Systems, as well as Music and Audio Processing and Blockchain Technology Applications and Security.

The scientist's recent publications include the following notable works:

  • Credit Card Fraud Is a Computer Security Problem, 2021, IEEE Security & Privacy
  • SMS OTP Security (SOS), 2022, Proceedings of the 2022 ACM on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security
  • Analyzing the Monetization Ecosystem of Stalkerware, 2022, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • Beyond $L_p$ clipping: Equalization-based Psychoacoustic Attacks against ASRs, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SoK: The Faults in our ASRs: An Overview of Attacks against Automatic Speech Recognition and Speaker Identification Systems, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Patrick Traynor has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Kevin Butler, Christian Peeters, Daniel Olszewski, Cassidy Gibson, and Vincent Bindschaedler. These coauthors have contributed multiple joint publications, indicating ongoing research partnerships.

Their work has been published in multiple venues, with a notable number of publications appearing in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Security & Privacy
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Proceedings of the 2022 ACM on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security
  • Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies

In recognition of their professional standing, Patrick Traynor was named an ACM Senior Member in 2014 and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in the same year.

Best Publications

  • Secure attribute-based systems

    Matthew Pirretti;Patrick Traynor;Patrick Mcdaniel;Brent Waters

  • Secure attribute-based systems

    Matthew Pirretti;Patrick Traynor;Patrick McDaniel;Brent Waters

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

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

  • On cellular botnets: measuring the impact of malicious devices on a cellular network core

    Patrick Traynor;Michael Lin;Machigar Ongtang;Vikhyath Rao

  • Exploiting open functionality in SMS-capable cellular networks

    William Enck;Patrick Traynor;Patrick McDaniel;Thomas La Porta

  • (sp)iPhone: decoding vibrations from nearby keyboards using mobile phone accelerometers

    Philip Marquardt;Arunabh Verma;Henry Carter;Patrick Traynor

  • Secure outsourced garbled circuit evaluation for mobile devices

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

  • MAST: triage for market-scale mobile malware analysis

    Saurabh Chakradeo;Bradley Reaves;Patrick Traynor;William Enck

  • Robust signatures for kernel data structures

    Brendan Dolan-Gavitt;Abhinav Srivastava;Patrick Traynor;Jonathon Giffin

  • Mitigating attacks on open functionality in SMS-capable cellular networks

    Patrick Traynor;W. Enck;P. McDaniel;T. La Porta

  • Mitigating attacks on open functionality in SMS-capable cellular networks

    Patrick Traynor;William Enck;Patrick McDaniel;Thomas La Porta

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

    Bradley Reaves;Jasmine Bowers;Nolen Scaife;Adam Bates

  • Efficient Hybrid Security Mechanisms for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks

    P. Traynor;R. Kumar;Heesook Choi;Guohong Cao

  • Practical Hidden Voice Attacks against Speech and Speaker Recognition Systems

    Hadi Abdullah;Washington Garcia;Christian Peeters;Patrick Traynor

  • Establishing Pair-Wise Keys in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks

    P. Traynor;H. Choi;G. Cao;S. Zhu

  • One-time cookies: Preventing session hijacking attacks with stateless authentication tokens

    Italo Dacosta;Saurabh Chakradeo;Mustaque Ahamad;Patrick Traynor

  • Evaluating Bluetooth as a medium for botnet command and control

    Kapil Singh;Samrit Sangal;Nehil Jain;Patrick Traynor

  • On attack causality in internet-connected cellular networks

    Patrick Traynor;Patrick McDaniel;Thomas La Porta

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

    Benjamin Mood;Debayan Gupta;Henry Carter;Kevin Butler

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

    Bradley Reaves;Nolen Scaife;Adam Bates;Patrick Traynor

  • Exploiting open functionality in SMS-capable cellular networks

    Patrick Traynor;William Enck;Patrick Mcdaniel;Thomas La Porta

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin R. B. Butler
Kevin R. B. Butler University of Florida
Patrick McDaniel
Patrick McDaniel University of Wisconsin–Madison
William Enck
William Enck North Carolina State University
Thomas F. La Porta
Thomas F. La Porta Pennsylvania State University
Mustaque Ahamad
Mustaque Ahamad Georgia Institute of Technology
Trent Jaeger
Trent Jaeger Pennsylvania State University
Guohong Cao
Guohong Cao Pennsylvania State University
Wenke Lee
Wenke Lee Georgia Institute of Technology
Paul C. van Oorschot
Paul C. van Oorschot Carleton University
Nicolas Papernot
Nicolas Papernot University of Toronto

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