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Computer Science
UK
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
80
Citations
36901
World Ranking
1053
National Ranking
56

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Ross Anderson was affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their main field of study was Computer Science, with a significant focus on subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Signal Processing.

Their research topics included Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning, Advanced Malware Detection Techniques, Information and Cyber Security, User Authentication and Security Systems, Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications, Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting, and Topic Modeling.

The scientist had a range of recent publications, spanning from 2021 to 2024. Notable papers include:

  • AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data, 2024, Nature
  • Two remarks on public key cryptology, 2021, CL Technical Reports
  • Public code for Model Collapse, 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Bad Characters: Imperceptible NLP Attacks, 2022, 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)
  • Murphy's law, the fitness of evolving species, and the limits of software reliability, 2021, CL Technical Reports

Frequent collaborators in their work included Ilia Shumailov, Nicholas Boucher, Nicolas Papernot, Jenny Blessing, and Yiren Zhao.

The scientist published extensively in certain venues, with multiple papers in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • CL Technical Reports
  • Nature
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)

Best Publications

  • Information hiding-a survey

    F.A.P. Petitcolas;R.J. Anderson;M.G. Kuhn

  • On the limits of steganography

    R.J. Anderson;F.A.P. Petitcolas

  • The Resurrecting Duckling: Security Issues for Ad-hoc Wireless Networks

    Frank Stajano;Frank Stajano;Ross J. Anderson

  • Tamper resistance: a cautionary note

    Ross Anderson;Markus Kuhn

  • Attacks on Copyright Marking Systems

    Fabien A. P. Petitcolas;Ross J. Anderson;Markus G. Kuhn

  • Why information security is hard - an economic perspective

    R. Anderson

  • Optical Fault Induction Attacks

    Sergei P. Skorobogatov;Ross J. Anderson

  • The Economics of Information Security

    Ross Anderson;Tyler Moore

  • Low Cost Attacks on Tamper Resistant Devices

    Ross J. Anderson;Markus G. Kuhn

  • Why cryptosystems fail

    Ross Anderson

  • Combining Crypto with Biometrics Effectively

    F. Hao;R. Anderson;J. Daugman

  • Password memorability and security: empirical results

    J. Yan;A. Blackwell;R. Anderson;A. Grant

  • Low cost attacks on tamper resistant devices

    R. Anderson;M. Kuhn

  • Aurasium: practical policy enforcement for Android applications

    Rubin Xu;Hassen Saïdi;Ross Anderson

  • Serpent: A Proposal for the Advanced Encryption Standard

    Ross Anderson;Eli Biham;Lars Knudsen

  • Measuring the Cost of Cybercrime

    Ross Anderson;Chris Barton;Rainer Böhme;Richard Clayton

  • Why cryptosystems fail

    Ross J. Anderson

  • Soft Tempest: Hidden Data Transmission Using Electromagnetic Emanations

    Markus G. Kuhn;Ross J. Anderson

  • A security policy model for clinical information systems

    R.J. Anderson

  • A security policy model for clinical information systems

    R. J. Anderson

Frequent Co-Authors

Dongsu Ryu
Dongsu Ryu Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Igor Tkachev
Igor Tkachev Russian Academy of Sciences

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