2026 Ueli Maurer: 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	70	1860	1800	43	43	253	21418

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
2015 - ACM Fellow For contributions to cryptography and information security.
2003 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the theory and practice of cryptography.

Overview

Ueli Maurer is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland, focusing primarily on computer science. The main field of study for their work is Computer Science, with significant contributions in several subfields, including Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Their research topics cover multiple areas, notably:

Cryptography and Data Security
Cryptographic Implementations and Security
Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs
Distributed Systems and Fault Tolerance
Chaos-based Image/Signal Encryption
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Security and Verification in Computing

Recent publications by Ueli Maurer include:

"Bitcoin as a Transaction Ledger: A Composable Treatment" (2024), published in the Journal of Cryptology
"Non-malleable Encryption: Simpler, Shorter, Stronger" (2020), featured in IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome)
"Unifying Generic Group Models" (2020), available in the Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)
"Synchronous Constructive Cryptography" (2020), part of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
"Coupling of Random Systems" (2020), also in Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Frequent co-authors associated with Ueli Maurer include:

Chen-Da Liu-Zhang
Guilherme Rito
Christopher Portmann
Christian Badertscher
Daniel Tschudi

Key venues where Ueli Maurer has published most frequently are:

Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Journal of Cryptology
IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome)
Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)
Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)

Ueli Maurer has received recognition through awards such as:

ACM Fellow (2015) for contributions to cryptography and information security
IEEE Fellow (2003) for contributions to the theory and practice of cryptography

Best Publications

Secret key agreement by public discussion from common information

U.M. Maurer

2521
Citations
Generalized privacy amplification

C.H. Bennett;G. Brassard;C. Crepeau;U.M. Maurer

2167
Citations
General secure multi-party computation from any linear secret-sharing scheme

Ronald Cramer;Ivan Damgård;Ueli Maurer

730
Citations
Indifferentiability, Impossibility Results on Reductions, and Applications to the Random Oracle Methodology

Ueli M. Maurer;Renato Renner;Clemens Holenstein

577
Citations
Information-theoretic key agreement: from weak to strong secrecy for free

Ueli Maurer;Stefan Wolf

557
Citations
Modelling a Public-Key Infrastructure

Ueli M. Maurer

550
Citations
Digital payment systems with passive anonymity-revoking trustees

Jan Camenisch;Ueli Maurer;Markus Stadler

505
Citations
A universal statistical test for random bit generators

Ueli M. Maurer

456
Citations
Unconditionally secure key agreement and the intrinsic conditional information

U.M. Maurer;S. Wolf

355
Citations
Conditionally-perfect secrecy and a provably-secure randomized cipher

Ueli M. Maurer

344
Citations
Towards the Equivalence of Breaking the Diffie-Hellman Protocol and Computing Discrete Algorithms

Ueli M. Maurer

335
Citations
New Public-Key Schemes Based on Elliptic Curves over the Ring Zn

Kenji Koyama;Ueli M. Maurer;Tatsuaki Okamoto;Scott A. Vanstone

308
Citations
Player Simulation and General Adversary Structures in Perfect Multiparty Computation

Martin Hirt;Ueli Maurer

293
Citations
Authentication theory and hypothesis testing

U.M. Maurer

281
Citations
Abstract models of computation in cryptography

Ueli Maurer

273
Citations
Unconditional security against memory-bounded adversaries

C. Cachin;U. Maurer

253
Citations
Non-interactive Public-Key Cryptography

Ueli M. Maurer;Yacov Yacobi

251
Citations
Complete characterization of adversaries tolerable in secure multi-party computation (extended abstract)

Martin Hirt;Ueli Maurer

247
Citations
Secret-key agreement over unauthenticated public channels .I. Definitions and a completeness result

U. Maurer;S. Wolf

244
Citations
Indistinguishability of random systems

Ueli Maurer

238
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Wolf Universita della Svizzera Italiana

Renato Renner ETH Zurich

Krzysztof Pietrzak Institute of Science and Technology Austria

Jonathan Katz University of Maryland, College Park

Juan A. Garay Texas A&M University

Phillip Rogaway University of California, Davis

Jan Camenisch DFINITY

Markulf Kohlweiss University of Edinburgh

Stefan Dziembowski University of Warsaw

Christian Cachin University of Bern

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