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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
57
Citations
16551
World Ranking
1931
National Ranking
758

Computer Science

D-Index
66
Citations
20204
World Ranking
2296
National Ranking
1147

Vyas Sekar publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Vyas Sekar sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 159 publications — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

Vyas Sekar D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Vyas Sekar sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Overview

Vyas Sekar is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, focusing primarily on research in computer science. Their body of work spans 77 publications in the main field and explores several specialized subfields including computer networks and communications, artificial intelligence, signal processing, computer vision and pattern recognition, and hardware and architecture.

Their research subjects cover a range of topics with specific attention to network security and intrusion detection, advanced malware detection techniques, software-defined networks and 5G, internet traffic analysis and secure e-voting, adversarial robustness in machine learning, generative adversarial networks and image synthesis, and privacy-preserving technologies in data.

Vyas Sekar has contributed to numerous papers, with notable recent publications such as:

  • "Cyber security in New Space" (2020) published in the International Journal of Information Security
  • "Why Spectral Normalization Stabilizes GANs: Analysis and Improvements" (2020) appearing in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "RareGAN: Generating Samples for Rare Classes" (2022) featured in the Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • "Analyzing the Benefits of Optical Topology Programming for Mitigating Link-Flood DDoS Attacks" (2024) published in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  • "Summary Statistic Privacy in Data Sharing" (2024) included in the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory

Frequent coauthors contributing to their research include Zinan Lin, Giulia Fanti, Zaoxing Liu, Maria Apostolaki, and Tianlong Yu.

Publications are prominently featured in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) from La Trobe University, International Journal of Information Security, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory.

Best Publications

  • A Control-Theoretic Approach for Dynamic Adaptive Video Streaming over HTTP

    Xiaoqi Yin;Abhishek Jindal;Vyas Sekar;Bruno Sinopoli

  • Improving fairness, efficiency, and stability in HTTP-based adaptive video streaming with FESTIVE

    Junchen Jiang;Vyas Sekar;Hui Zhang

  • Making middleboxes someone else's problem: network processing as a cloud service

    Justine Sherry;Shaddi Hasan;Colin Scott;Arvind Krishnamurthy

  • Understanding the impact of video quality on user engagement

    Florin Dobrian;Vyas Sekar;Asad Awan;Ion Stoica

  • SIMPLE-fying middlebox policy enforcement using SDN

    Zafar Ayyub Qazi;Cheng-Chun Tu;Luis Chiang;Rui Miao

  • Design and implementation of a consolidated middlebox architecture

    Vyas Sekar;Norbert Egi;Sylvia Ratnasamy;Michael K. Reiter

  • Less pain, most of the gain: incrementally deployable ICN

    Seyed Kaveh Fayazbakhsh;Yin Lin;Amin Tootoonchian;Ali Ghodsi

  • One Sketch to Rule Them All: Rethinking Network Flow Monitoring with UnivMon

    Zaoxing Liu;Antonis Manousis;Gregory Vorsanger;Vyas Sekar

  • Developing a predictive model of quality of experience for internet video

    Athula Balachandran;Vyas Sekar;Aditya Akella;Srinivasan Seshan

  • Measuring user confidence in smartphone security and privacy

    Erika Chin;Adrienne Porter Felt;Vyas Sekar;David Wagner

  • An empirical evaluation of entropy-based traffic anomaly detection

    George Nychis;Vyas Sekar;David G. Andersen;Hyong Kim

  • Improving Fairness, Efficiency, and Stability in HTTP-Based Adaptive Video Streaming With Festive

    Junchen Jiang;Vyas Sekar;Hui Zhang

  • Handling a trillion (unfixable) flaws on a billion devices: Rethinking network security for the Internet-of-Things

    Tianlong Yu;Vyas Sekar;Srinivasan Seshan;Yuvraj Agarwal

  • CS2P: Improving Video Bitrate Selection and Adaptation with Data-Driven Throughput Prediction

    Yi Sun;Xiaoqi Yin;Junchen Jiang;Vyas Sekar

  • Design and deployment of a hybrid CDN-P2P system for live video streaming: experiences with LiveSky

    Hao Yin;Xuening Liu;Tongyu Zhan;Vyas Sekar

  • Enforcing network-wide policies in the presence of dynamic middlebox actions using flowtags

    Seyed Kaveh Fayazbakhsh;Luis Chiang;Vyas Sekar;Minlan Yu

  • FireFly: a reconfigurable wireless data center fabric using free-space optics

    Navid Hamedazimi;Zafar Qazi;Himanshu Gupta;Vyas Sekar

  • Understanding website complexity: measurements, metrics, and implications

    Michael Butkiewicz;Harsha V. Madhyastha;Vyas Sekar

  • Bohatei: flexible and elastic DDoS defense

    Seyed K. Fayaz;Yoshiaki Tobioka;Vyas Sekar;Michael Bailey

  • A case for a coordinated internet video control plane

    Xi Liu;Florin Dobrian;Henry Milner;Junchen Jiang

Frequent Co-Authors

Hui Zhang
Hui Zhang National University of Singapore
Michael K. Reiter
Michael K. Reiter Duke University
Srinivasan Seshan
Srinivasan Seshan Carnegie Mellon University
Aditya Akella
Aditya Akella The University of Texas at Austin
Ion Stoica
Ion Stoica University of California, Berkeley
Bruno Sinopoli
Bruno Sinopoli Washington University in St. Louis
Samir R. Das
Samir R. Das Stony Brook University
Himanshu Gupta
Himanshu Gupta Stony Brook University
Minlan Yu
Minlan Yu Harvard University
Sylvia Ratnasamy
Sylvia Ratnasamy University of California, Berkeley

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