2026 Stefan Savage: 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	93	504	488	270	260	204	51013

Research.com Recognitions

2017 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
2015 - ACM Prize in Computing For innovative research in network security, privacy, and reliability that has taught us to view attacks and attackers as elements of an integrated technological, societal, and economic system.
2010 - ACM Fellow For contributions to large scale systems and network security.
2004 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Stefan Savage is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States and specializes in computer science with a focus on information systems, signal processing, computer networks and communications, artificial intelligence, and sociology and political science.

Their research primarily addresses topics such as advanced malware detection techniques, spam and phishing detection, network security and intrusion detection, internet traffic analysis and secure e-voting, privacy, security, and data protection, digital and cyber forensics, and information and cyber security.

Selected recent publications include:

Ransomware Attack Associated With Disruptions at Adjacent Emergency Departments in the US, 2023, JAMA Network Open
No Privacy Among Spies: Assessing the Functionality and Insecurity of Consumer Android Spyware Apps, 2023, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Characterization of Anycast Adoption in the DNS Authoritative Infrastructure, 2021, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Measuring security practices, 2022, Communications of the ACM
Patient Care Technology Disruptions Associated With the CrowdStrike Outage, 2025, JAMA Network Open

Their work has been published frequently in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), JAMA Network Open, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, and Communications of the ACM.

Frequent coauthors include Geoffrey M. Voelker, Enze Liu, Gautam Akiwate, Grant Ho, and Mattijs Jonker.

Stefan Savage has received several notable awards including:

Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, 2017
ACM Prize in Computing, 2015, for innovative research in network security, privacy, and reliability that has taught the field to view attacks and attackers as elements of an integrated technological, societal, and economic system
ACM Fellow, 2010, for contributions to large scale systems and network security
Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2004

Best Publications

Hey, you, get off of my cloud: exploring information leakage in third-party compute clouds

Thomas Ristenpart;Eran Tromer;Hovav Shacham;Stefan Savage

2904
Citations
Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile

Karl Koscher;Alexei Czeskis;Franziska Roesner;Shwetak Patel

2396
Citations
Inferring Internet denial-of-service activity

David Moore;Colleen Shannon;Douglas J. Brown;Geoffrey M. Voelker

2187
Citations
Eraser: a dynamic data race detector for multithreaded programs

Stefan Savage;Michael Burrows;Greg Nelson;Patrick Sobalvarro

2070
Citations
Practical network support for IP traceback

Stefan Savage;David Wetherall;Anna Karlin;Tom Anderson

2020
Citations
Comprehensive experimental analyses of automotive attack surfaces

Stephen Checkoway;Damon McCoy;Brian Kantor;Danny Anderson

1924
Citations
Extensibility safety and performance in the SPIN operating system

B. N. Bershad;S. Savage;P. Pardyak;E. G. Sirer

1578
Citations
A fistful of bitcoins: characterizing payments among men with no names

Sarah Meiklejohn;Marjori Pomarole;Grant Jordan;Kirill Levchenko

1570
Citations
Inside the Slammer worm

D. Moore;V. Paxson;S. Savage;C. Shannon

1466
Citations
Inferring internet denial-of-service activity

David Moore;Geoffrey M. Voelker;Stefan Savage

1329
Citations
Beyond blacklists: learning to detect malicious web sites from suspicious URLs

Justin Ma;Lawrence K. Saul;Stefan Savage;Geoffrey M. Voelker

1104
Citations
Automated worm fingerprinting

Sumeet Singh;Cristian Estan;George Varghese;Stefan Savage

1081
Citations
Internet quarantine: requirements for containing self-propagating code

D. Moore;C. Shannon;G.M. Voelker;S. Savage

1042
Citations
802.11 denial-of-service attacks: real vulnerabilities and practical solutions

John Bellardo;Stefan Savage

1006
Citations
Network support for IP traceback

Stefan Savage;David Wetherall;Anna Karlin;Tom Anderson

902
Citations
Modeling TCP latency

N. Cardwell;S. Savage;T. Anderson

800
Citations
Understanding Availability

Ranjita Bhagwan;Stefan Savage;Geoffrey M. Voelker

798
Citations
SyncScan: practical fast handoff for 802.11 infrastructure networks

I. Ramani;S. Savage

759
Citations
The end-to-end effects of Internet path selection

Stefan Savage;Andy Collins;Eric Hoffman;John Snell

744
Citations
Identifying suspicious URLs: an application of large-scale online learning

Justin Ma;Lawrence K. Saul;Stefan Savage;Geoffrey M. Voelker

743
Citations
Eraser: a dynamic data race detector for multi-threaded programs

Stefan Savage;Michael Burrows;Greg Nelson;Patrick Sobalvarro

318
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoffrey M. Voelker University of California, San Diego

Kirill Levchenko University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Damon McCoy New York University

Vern Paxson University of California, Berkeley

Alex C. Snoeren University of California, San Diego

Thomas Anderson University of Washington

Keith Marzullo University of Maryland, College Park

Lawrence K. Saul University of California, San Diego

Christian Kreibich Corelight

Hovav Shacham The University of Texas at Austin

External Links

Wikipedia of Stefan Savage Personal website of Stefan Savage Google Scholar page

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