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Steve Zdancewic 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 Steve Zdancewic sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 130 publications — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Steve Zdancewic 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 Steve Zdancewic sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 49 D-Index — 60th percentile

60% 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

  • 2009 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Steve Zdancewic is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily centers on computer science, with a strong focus on subfields including artificial intelligence, computational theory and mathematics, computer networks and communications, hardware and architecture, and information systems.

Their scholarly output encompasses 73 publications in computer science, addressing topics such as logic, programming, and type systems; formal methods in verification; security and verification in computing; distributed systems and fault tolerance; parallel computing and optimization techniques; logic, reasoning, and knowledge; and software testing and debugging techniques.

  • Logic, programming, and type systems
  • Formal Methods in Verification
  • Security and Verification in Computing
  • Distributed systems and fault tolerance
  • Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
  • Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
  • Software Testing and Debugging Techniques

Zdancewic's recent published papers illustrate the scope of their research contributions:

  • "Modular, compositional, and executable formal semantics for LLVM IR" (2021), Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • "C4: verified transactional objects" (2022), Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • "Verifying an HTTP Key-Value Server with Interaction Trees and VST" (2021), Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • "Choice Trees: Representing Nondeterministic, Recursive, and Impure Programs in Coq" (2023), Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • "Dijkstra monads forever: termination-sensitive specifications for interaction trees" (2021), Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages

Their frequent co-authors include Yannick Zakowski, Stephen Mell, Osbert Bastani, Nick Rioux, and Calvin Beck. The collaboration with these colleagues is reflected in multiple publications, contributing to the knowledge base in formal semantics, verification, and programming languages.

  • Yannick Zakowski
  • Stephen Mell
  • Osbert Bastani
  • Nick Rioux
  • Calvin Beck

Publications by Zdancewic are predominantly found in venues such as:

  • Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
  • Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Steve Zdancewic has been recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2009, an accolade marking a notable point in their academic career.

Best Publications

  • SoftBound: highly compatible and complete spatial memory safety for c

    Santosh Nagarakatte;Jianzhou Zhao;Milo M.K. Martin;Steve Zdancewic

  • CETS: compiler enforced temporal safety for C

    Santosh Nagarakatte;Jianzhou Zhao;Milo M.K. Martin;Steve Zdancewic

  • Mechanized metatheory for the masses: the PoplMark challenge

    Brian E. Aydemir;Aaron Bohannon;Matthew Fairbairn;J. Nathan Foster

  • Observational determinism for concurrent program security

    S. Zdancewic;A.C. Myers

  • TALx86: A Realistic Typed Assembly Language∗

    Greg Morrisett;Karl Crary;Neal Glew;Dan Grossman

  • Robust declassification

    S. Zdancewic;A.C. Myers

  • Formalizing the LLVM intermediate representation for verified program transformations

    Jianzhou Zhao;Santosh Nagarakatte;Milo M.K. Martin;Steve Zdancewic

  • Hardbound: architectural support for spatial safety of the C programming language

    Joe Devietti;Colin Blundell;Milo M. K. Martin;Steve Zdancewic

  • Type-and-example-directed program synthesis

    Peter-Michael Osera;Steve Zdancewic

  • Downgrading policies and relaxed noninterference

    Peng Li;Steve Zdancewic

  • Secure program partitioning

    Steve Zdancewic;Lantian Zheng;Nathaniel Nystrom;Andrew C. Myers

  • Run-time principals in information-flow type systems

    Stephen Tse;Steve Zdancewic

  • A theory of aspects

    David Walker;Steve Zdancewic;Jay Ligatti

  • Programming languages for information security

    Stephan Arthur Zdancewic;Andrew Myers

  • SoK: General Purpose Compilers for Secure Multi-Party Computation

    Marcella Hastings;Brett Hemenway;Daniel Noble;Steve Zdancewic

  • Untrusted hosts and confidentiality: secure program partitioning

    Steve Zdancewic;Lantian Zheng;Nathaniel Nystrom;Andrew C. Myers

  • Enforcing robust declassification

    A.C. Myers;A. Sabelfeld;S. Zdancewic

  • Challenges for Information-flow Security

    Steve Zdancewic

  • QWIRE: a core language for quantum circuits

    Jennifer Paykin;Robert Rand;Steve Zdancewic

  • Using replication and partitioning to build secure distributed systems

    Lantian Zheng;S. Chong;A.C. Myers;S. Zdancewic

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin C. Pierce
Benjamin C. Pierce University of Pennsylvania
Andrew C. Myers
Andrew C. Myers Cornell University
David Walker
David Walker Princeton University
Milo M. K. Martin
Milo M. K. Martin Google (United States)
Stephanie Weirich
Stephanie Weirich University of Pennsylvania
Dan Grossman
Dan Grossman University of Washington
Peter Sewell
Peter Sewell University of Cambridge
Greg Morrisett
Greg Morrisett Cornell University
Rajeev Alur
Rajeev Alur University of Pennsylvania
Andrei Sabelfeld
Andrei Sabelfeld Chalmers University of Technology

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