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Digital Rights Management and Security

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Jongseok Ryu
Kyungpook National University
2
Mingjin Zhang
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
3
Matias Bjørling
Western Digital (United States)
4
Hafiz Muhammad Sanaullah Badar
Henan University
5
Kechi Zhang
Peking University
6
Raisa Islam
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
7
Jintian Zhang
Zhejiang University
8
Juan Cano-Benito
Technische Hochschule Mannheim
9
Gabin Heo
Ewha Womans University
10
Yuyue Zhao
University of Science and Technology of China

Rising Stars Papers

1
EdgeShard: Efficient LLM Inference via Collaborative Edge Computing
IEEE Internet of Things Journal|2024
127 cit.
2
CodeAgent: Enhancing Code Generation with Tool-Integrated Agent Systems for Real-World Repo-level Coding Challenges
Unknown Journal|2024
56 cit.
3
Gemini-the most powerful LLM: Myth or Truth
Unknown Journal|2024
51 cit.
4
Exploring Collaboration Mechanisms for LLM Agents: A Social Psychology View
Unknown Journal|2024
37 cit.
5
Let Me Do It For You: Towards LLM Empowered Recommendation via Tool Learning
Unknown Journal|2024
32 cit.
6
Blockchain and differential privacy-based data processing system for data security and privacy in urban computing
Computer Communications|2024
16 cit.
7
Resource-efficient Parallel Split Learning in Heterogeneous Edge Computing
Unknown Journal|2024
10 cit.
8
Q-BLAISE: Quantum-Resilient Blockchain and AI-Enhanced Security Protocol for Smart Grid IoT
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics|2025
10 cit.
9
Report on the Search Futures Workshop at ECIR 2024
ACM SIGIR Forum|2024
9 cit.
10
OneGen: Efficient One-Pass Unified Generation and Retrieval for LLMs
Unknown Journal|2024
3 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Vincent Stettler
ETH Zurich
2
Nadim Kobeissi
New York University
3
Zhen Wang
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
4
Martin Dehnel-Wild
University of Oxford
5
Xiaoshuai Wu
Hunan University
6
Guarav Bhatnagar
Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
7
Hongmin Gao
Tangshan College
8
George Amvrosiadis
Carnegie Mellon University
9
Qiang Wang
PLA Academy of Military Science
10
Aala Alkhayer
Prince Sultan University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
FAMM: Facial Muscle Motions for Detecting Compressed Deepfake Videos Over Social Networks
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology|2023
133 cit.
2
Screen-Shooting Resistant Watermarking With Grayscale Deviation Simulation
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia|2024
89 cit.
3
SepMark: Deep Separable Watermarking for Unified Source Tracing and Deepfake Detection
Unknown Journal|2023
51 cit.
4
An optical-based encryption and authentication algorithm for color and grayscale medical images
Multimedia Tools and Applications|2022
29 cit.
5
Sign steganography revisited with robust domain selection
Signal Processing|2022
21 cit.
6
Flexible Partial Screen-Shooting Watermarking With Provable Robustness
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology|2025
14 cit.
7
Toward Steganographic Payload Location via Neighboring Weight Algorithm
Security and Communication Networks|2022
13 cit.
8
Learning Combinatorial Prompts for Universal Controllable Image Captioning
International Journal of Computer Vision|2024
8 cit.
9
AR-Driven Industrial Metaverse for the Auxiliary Maintenance of Machine Tools in IoT-Enabled Manufacturing Workshop
Unknown Journal|2023
6 cit.
10
A Searchable Encryption Scheme for Blockchain-Based Digital Twins
IEEE Internet of Things Journal|2025
5 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
John Riedl
United Monolithic Semiconductor (France)
2
Ahmed H. Tewfik
University of Minnesota
3
Fadlo R. Khuri
American University of Beirut Medical Center
4
Ping Wah Wong
Universiti Putra Malaysia
5
Edward J. Delp
Purdue University West Lafayette
6
Fernando Pereira
University of Pennsylvania
7
G. Lawrence Sanders
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
8
Luca de Alfaro
University of California, Santa Cruz
9
Lior Zalmanson
Tel Aviv University
10
Susan C. Herring
Indiana University Bloomington

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Item-based collaborative filtering recommendation algorithms
Unknown Journal|2001
9k cit.
2
Evaluating collaborative filtering recommender systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems|2004
5.8k cit.
3
GroupLens
Unknown Journal|1994
5k cit.
4
An Algorithmic Framework for Performing Collaborative Filtering
ACM SIGIR Forum|2017
2.6k cit.
5
GroupLens
Communications of the ACM|1997
2.4k cit.
6
Biographies, Bollywood, Boom-boxes and Blenders: Domain Adaptation for Sentiment Classification
Unknown Journal|2007
2k cit.
7
An algorithmic framework for performing collaborative filtering
Unknown Journal|1999
2k cit.
8
Analysis of recommendation algorithms for e-commerce
Unknown Journal|2000
1.8k cit.
9
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data
IEEE Intelligent Systems|2009
1.8k cit.
10
Explaining collaborative filtering recommendations
Unknown Journal|2000
1.7k cit.

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