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Access Control and Trust

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Orlando Amaral
Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
2
Safwa Ameer
University of Babylon
3
Jie Wang
Xidian University
4
Nils Lukas
University of Waterloo
5
Hongzhaoning Kang
Xidian University
6
Lewis Golightly
Teesside University
7
Carlo Mazzocca
University of Salerno
8
Renas Bacho
Helmholtz Center for Information Security
9
Franziska von Scherenberg
Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering
10
Georgios Feretzakis
Hellenic Open University

Rising Stars Papers

1
A Survey on Decentralized Identifiers and Verifiable Credentials
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials|2025
86 cit.
2
Data Sovereignty in Information Systems
Electronic Markets|2024
70 cit.
3
Trustworthy AI: Securing Sensitive Data in Large Language Models
AI|2024
67 cit.
4
Integrating Shapley Values into Machine Learning Techniques for Enhanced Predictions of Hospital Admissions
Applied Sciences|2024
40 cit.
5
TrustGuard: GNN-Based Robust and Explainable Trust Evaluation With Dynamicity Support
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing|2024
39 cit.
6
Evaluating spam filters and Stylometric Detection of AI-generated phishing emails
Expert Systems with Applications|2025
34 cit.
7
ZTA-IoT: A Novel Architecture for Zero-Trust in IoT Systems and an Ensuing Usage Control Model
ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security|2024
28 cit.
8
Data-Driven Approaches in Antimicrobial Resistance: Machine Learning Solutions
Antibiotics|2024
26 cit.
9
GDPR and Large Language Models: Technical and Legal Obstacles
Future Internet|2025
23 cit.
10
Machine Learning in Medical Triage: A Predictive Model for Emergency Department Disposition
Applied Sciences|2024
18 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Ru‐Xi Ding
Beijing Institute of Technology
2
Naoto Yanai
The University of Osaka
3
Madini O. Alassafi
King Abdulaziz University
4
Xiangjie Ma
China Electronics Technology Group Corporation
5
Lei Chen
China Electronics Technology Group Corporation
6
Ryan Chard
Victoria University of Wellington
7
Mohammad Yahya H. Al-Shamri
King Khalid University
8
Vincent Frey
Orange (France)
9
Manisha Manjul
Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology
10
Amirreza Masoumzadeh
University at Albany, State University of New York

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
A Survey on Zero Trust Architecture: Challenges and Future Trends
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing|2022
222 cit.
2
The power of Deep Learning techniques for predicting student performance in Virtual Learning Environments: A systematic literature review
Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence|2024
79 cit.
3
Command filtering‐based adaptive neural network control for uncertain switched nonlinear systems using event‐triggered communication
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control|2022
70 cit.
4
A Robust Distributed Deep Learning Approach to Detect Alzheimer’s Disease from MRI Images
Mathematics|2023
49 cit.
5
Globus automation services: Research process automation across the space–time continuum
Future Generation Computer Systems|2023
35 cit.
6
Membership Inference Attacks against Diffusion Models
Unknown Journal|2023
35 cit.
7
Conflict management-based consensus reaching process considering conflict relationship clustering in large-scale group decision-making problems
Expert Systems with Applications|2023
31 cit.
8
A Confidence and Conflict-Based Consensus Reaching Process for Large-Scale Group Decision-Making Problems With Intuitionistic Fuzzy Representations
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems|2024
31 cit.
9
Indirect neural-based finite-time integral sliding mode control for trajectory tracking guidance of Mars entry vehicle
Advances in Space Research|2022
28 cit.
10
Taking All the Factors We Need: A Multimodal Depression Classification With Uncertainty Approximation
IEEE Access|2023
28 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Colin F. Camerer
California Institute of Technology
2
Ravi Sandhu
Texas A&M University – San Antonio
3
Pierangela Samarati
University of Milan
4
Colin Boyd
Queensland University of Technology
5
Munindar P. Singh
North Carolina State University
6
Carles Sierra
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
7
Elena Ferrari
University of Padua
8
Stephen Hailes
University College London
9
Elisa Bertino
Purdue University West Lafayette
10
Gail‐Joon Ahn
Arizona State University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Not So Different After All: A Cross-Discipline View Of Trust
Academy of Management Review|1998
10.1k cit.
2
Role-based access control models
Computer|1996
5.8k cit.
3
A survey of trust and reputation systems for online service provision
Decision Support Systems|2005
3.3k cit.
4
Protecting respondents identities in microdata release
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering|2001
2.3k cit.
5
Overconfidence and Excess Entry: An Experimental Approach
American Economic Review|1999
2.3k cit.
6
Recent developments in modeling preferences: Uncertainty and ambiguity
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty|1992
1.8k cit.
7
A Cognitive Hierarchy Model of Games
The Quarterly Journal of Economics|2004
1.6k cit.
8
Evaluating the replicability of social science experiments in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015
Nature Human Behaviour|2018
1.6k cit.
9
Experience-weighted Attraction Learning in Normal Form Games
Econometrica|1999
1.5k cit.
10
The Effects of Financial Incentives in Experiments: A Review and Capital-Labor-Production Framework 
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CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology)|1999
1.4k cit.

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