2026 Simson L. Garfinkel: 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	51	5232	5086	2407	2324	183	15143

Research.com Recognitions

2019 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to digital forensics and computer security
2012 - ACM Fellow For contributions to digital forensics and to computer security education.
2011 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Simson L. Garfinkel is affiliated with the United States Census Bureau in the United States. Their primary research area lies within Computer Science, with a focus on several notable subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Sociology and Political Science, and Signal Processing.

Their research topics cover a diverse range of areas such as Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data, Privacy, Security, and Data Protection, COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing, Digital and Cyber Forensics, Advanced Malware Detection Techniques, and Software Testing and Debugging Techniques. Additionally, they have explored topics related to Census and Population Estimation.

Simson L. Garfinkel's recent papers include:

"The 2020 Census Disclosure Avoidance System TopDown Algorithm," 2022, published in Harvard Data Science Review
"Law and Policy for the Quantum Age," 2022, published in SSRN Electronic Journal
"A File System For Write-Once Media," 2020, published in arXiv (Cornell University)
"The 2020 Census Disclosure Avoidance System TopDown Algorithm," 2022, published in arXiv (Cornell University)
"The Philosophy of Differential Privacy," 2021, published in Notices of the American Mathematical Society

The frequent co-authors of Garfinkel include Eugene H. Spafford, John M. Abowd, Robert Ashmead, Daniel Kifer, and Philip Leclerc.

Regarding publication venues, Garfinkel has consistently contributed to Communications of the ACM, arXiv (Cornell University), SSRN Electronic Journal, Harvard Data Science Review, and Harvard Dataverse.

Their book publications have been released by several reputable publishers, including the Association for Computing Machinery with titles such as "ACM TechBrief: Quantum Computing and Simulation" (2022), "ACM TechBrief: Automated Vehicles" (2024), and "ACM TechBrief: Government Digital Transformation" (2025). Cambridge University Press published "Law and Policy for the Quantum Age" (2021), and The MIT Press published the book "Differential Privacy" (2025).

Awards received by Simson L. Garfinkel include IEEE Fellow (2019) for contributions to digital forensics and computer security, ACM Fellow (2012) for contributions to digital forensics and computer security education, and ACM Senior Member (2011).

Best Publications

Practical UNIX and Internet Security

Simson Garfinkel;Gene Spafford

1185
Citations
Digital forensics research: The next 10 years

Simson L. Garfinkel

936
Citations
PGP: Pretty Good Privacy

Simson Garfinkel;Deborah Russell

933
Citations
Do security toolbars actually prevent phishing attacks

Min Wu;Robert C. Miller;Simson L. Garfinkel

815
Citations
Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century

Simson Garfinkel

796
Citations
RFID privacy: an overview of problems and proposed solutions

S.L. Garfinkel;A. Juels;R. Pappu

779
Citations
Security and Usability: Designing Secure Systems that People Can Use

Lorrie Faith Cranor;Simson Garfinkel

652
Citations
Amazon S3 for science grids: a viable solution?

Mayur R. Palankar;Adriana Iamnitchi;Matei Ripeanu;Simson Garfinkel

611
Citations
RFID: Applications, Security, and Privacy

Simson Garfinkel;Beth Rosenberg

542
Citations
Bringing science to digital forensics with standardized forensic corpora

Simson Garfinkel;Paul Farrell;Vassil Roussev;George Dinolt

473
Citations
An Evaluation of Amazon's Grid Computing Services: EC2, S3, and SQS

Simson Garfinkel

442
Citations
Web security & commerce

Simson Garfinkel;Gene Spafford

415
Citations
Web Security, Privacy & Commerce

Simson Garfinkel;Gene Spafford

345
Citations
Carving contiguous and fragmented files with fast object validation

Simson L. Garfinkel

325
Citations
Remembrance of data passed: a study of disk sanitization practices

S.L. Garfinkel;A. Shelat

302
Citations
Practical UNIX Security

Simson Garfinkel;Gene Spafford

280
Citations
Security and Usability

Lorrie Cranor;Simson Garfinkel

272
Citations
Johnny 2: a user test of key continuity management with S/MIME and Outlook Express

Simson L. Garfinkel;Robert C. Miller

266
Citations
Comparing the Usability of Cryptographic APIs

Yasemin Acar;Michael Backes;Sascha Fahl;Simson Garfinkel

245
Citations
Forensic feature extraction and cross-drive analysis

Simson L. Garfinkel

203
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Lorrie Faith Cranor Carnegie Mellon University

Robert C. Miller MIT

Sascha Fahl Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Michael Backes University of Oxford

Richard P. Lippmann MIT

Abhi Shelat Northeastern University

Matei Ripeanu University of British Columbia

Gianluca Stringhini Boston University

Ari Juels Cornell University

Adriana Iamnitchi Maastricht University

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