2026 Thomas Schneider: 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	54	4499	4370	197	190	241	14011

Overview

Thomas Schneider is affiliated with the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany and has an extensive research portfolio primarily situated in the field of Computer Science. Their work spans 97 publications, with a focus on subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Management of Technology and Innovation, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Computer Networks and Communications, and Information Systems.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

Cryptography and Data Security
Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
Digital Innovation in Industries
Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
Cryptographic Implementations and Security
Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs
Advanced Malware Detection Techniques

Recent publications by Thomas Schneider illustrate a concentration on privacy, security, and efficient computational frameworks. These include:

"Comments on "Privacy-Enhanced Federated Learning Against Poisoning Adversaries"" (2023), published in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
"MOTION - A Framework for Mixed-Protocol Multi-Party Computation" (2022), published in ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security
"SoK: Efficient Privacy-preserving Clustering" (2021), published in Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
"Efficient and Scalable Universal Circuits" (2020), published in Journal of Cryptology
"MP2ML: A Mixed-Protocol Machine Learning Framework for Private Inference" (2020), published in TUbilio (Technical University of Darmstadt)

Thomas Schneider frequently collaborates with multiple co-authors, with the most common collaborators being Hossein Yalame, Christian Weinert, Ajith Suresh, Helen Möllering, and Daniel Demmler. These partnerships have contributed to a diverse body of work focusing on the intersection of cryptography, privacy, and machine learning.

They have published notably in venues such as MTZ worldwide, MTZ - Motortechnische Zeitschrift, arXiv (Cornell University), Risk, fraud & compliance, and TUbilio (Technical University of Darmstadt). The high number of publications in MTZ worldwide and MTZ - Motortechnische Zeitschrift indicates a sustained engagement with audiences interested in both technical and practical aspects of innovation and technology management.

Best Publications

Improved Garbled Circuit: Free XOR Gates and Applications

Vladimir Kolesnikov;Thomas Schneider

920
Citations
ABY - A Framework for Efficient Mixed-Protocol Secure Two-Party Computation

Daniel Demmler;Thomas Schneider;Michael Zohner

891
Citations
Secure Two-Party Computation Is Practical

Benny Pinkas;Thomas Schneider;Nigel P. Smart;Stephen C. Williams

710
Citations
Chameleon: A Hybrid Secure Computation Framework for Machine Learning Applications

M. Sadegh Riazi;Christian Weinert;Oleksandr Tkachenko;Ebrahim M. Songhori

489
Citations
More Efficient Oblivious Transfer and Extensions for Faster Secure Computation.

Gilad Asharov;Yehuda Lindell;Thomas Schneider;Michael Zohner

483
Citations
More efficient oblivious transfer and extensions for faster secure computation

Gilad Asharov;Yehuda Lindell;Thomas Schneider;Michael Zohner

483
Citations
TASTY: tool for automating secure two-party computations

Wilko Henecka;Stefan K ögl;Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi;Thomas Schneider

469
Citations
Efficient privacy-preserving face recognition

Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi;Thomas Schneider;Immo Wehrenberg

455
Citations
Ciphers for MPC and FHE.

Martin R. Albrecht;Christian Rechberger;Thomas Schneider;Tyge Tiessen

386
Citations
Ciphers for MPC and FHE

Martin R. Albrecht;Christian Rechberger;Thomas Schneider;Tyge Tiessen

367
Citations
Scalable Private Set Intersection Based on OT Extension.

Benny Pinkas;Thomas Schneider;Michael Zohner

329
Citations
Improved Garbled Circuit Building Blocks and Applications to Auctions and Computing Minima

Vladimir Kolesnikov;Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi;Thomas Schneider

317
Citations
Scalable Private Set Intersection Based on OT Extension

Benny Pinkas;Thomas Schneider;Michael Zohner

315
Citations
Faster private set intersection based on OT extension

Benny Pinkas;Thomas Schneider;Michael Zohner

281
Citations
Twin Clouds: An Architecture for Secure Cloud Computing

Sven Bugiel;Stefan Nürnberger;Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi;Thomas Schneider

276
Citations
Twin Clouds: An Architecture for Secure Cloud Computing (Extended Abstract)

Sven Bugiel;Stefan Nürnberger;Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi;Thomas Schneider

270
Citations
Faster Private Set Intersection based on OT Extension.

Benny Pinkas;Thomas Schneider;Michael Zohner

266
Citations
TinyGarble: Highly Compressed and Scalable Sequential Garbled Circuits

Ebrahim M. Songhori;Siam U. Hussain;Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi;Thomas Schneider

262
Citations
Privacy-Preserving ECG Classification With Branching Programs and Neural Networks

Mauro Barni;Pierluigi Failla;Riccardo Lazzeretti;Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

257
Citations
Phasing: private set intersection using permutation-based hashing

Benny Pinkas;Thomas Schneider;Gil Segev;Michael Zohner

228
Citations
Token-based cloud computing: secure outsourcing of data and arbitrary computations with lower latency

Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi;Thomas Schneider;Marcel Winandy

228
Citations
Secure Evaluation of Private Linear Branching Programs with Medical Applications.

Mauro Barni;Pierluigi Failla;Vladimir Kolesnikov;Riccardo Lazzeretti

172
Citations
GMW vs. Yao? Efficient Secure Two-Party Computation with Low Depth Circuits

Thomas Schneider;Michael Zohner

166
Citations
Efficient Circuit-based PSI with Linear Communication.

Benny Pinkas;Thomas Schneider;Oleksandr Tkachenko;Avishay Yanai

136
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi Technical University of Darmstadt

Benny Pinkas Bar-Ilan University

Martin Zeitz Charité - University Medicine Berlin

Farinaz Koushanfar University of California, San Diego

Yehuda Lindell Bar-Ilan University

Mauro Barni University of Siena

Shujun Li University of Kent

Nadarajah Asokan University of Waterloo

Christoph Loddenkemper Charité - University Medicine Berlin

Michael Fromm Charité - University Medicine Berlin

External Links

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