Leaderboards/Network Packet Processing and Optimization

Network Packet Processing and Optimization

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Shyan Akmal
IIT@MIT
2
Treepop Wisanwanichthan
Navamindradhiraj University
3
Ruijie Meng
National University of Singapore
4
Morteza Safaei Pour
San Diego State University
5
Sebastiano Miano
Politecnico di Torino
6
Xinfeng Xie
Bellevue Hospital Center
7
Sharuka Promodya Thirimanne
École Polytechnique
8
Daniele Bringhenti
Politecnico di Torino
9
Yapeng Ye
Purdue University West Lafayette
10
Mhamad Bakro
Vivekananda Global University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Large Language Model guided Protocol Fuzzing
Unknown Journal|2024
174 cit.
2
Building a Cloud-IDS by Hybrid Bio-Inspired Feature Selection Algorithms Along With Random Forest Model
IEEE Access|2024
79 cit.
3
A Lightweight Intrusion Detection System for IoT and UAV Using Deep Neural Networks with Knowledge Distillation
Computers|2025
17 cit.
4
A Two-Fold Traffic Flow Model for Network Security Management
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management|2024
9 cit.
5
Automating VPN Configuration in Computer Networks
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing|2024
9 cit.
6
Program Environment Fuzzing
Unknown Journal|2024
7 cit.
7
GreenShield: Optimizing Firewall Configuration for Sustainable Networks
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management|2024
6 cit.
8
AFLNet Five Years Later: On Coverage-Guided Protocol Fuzzing
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering|2025
5 cit.
9
Accelerating network analytics with an on-NIC streaming engine
Computer Networks|2024
4 cit.
10
Atomizing Firewall Policies for Anomaly Analysis and Resolution
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing|2024
4 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Kimihiro Mizutani
Kindai University
2
Hemn Khezri
Afagh Higher Education Institute
3
Leonid Yavits
Bar-Ilan University
4
Mason Thammawichai
Navamindradhiraj University
5
Yanjie Sun
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
6
Fengyan Wang
China Electric Power Research Institute
7
Reetuparna Das
University of Michigan
8
Elias Bou‐Harb
Louisiana State University
9
Kazuya Tsuruta
Kyushu University
10
Jose Yallouz
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
A Comprehensive Survey of Recent Internet Measurement Techniques for Cyber Security
Computers & Security|2023
116 cit.
2
A survey on security applications of P4 programmable switches and a STRIDE-based vulnerability assessment
Computer Networks|2022
68 cit.
3
Hamming Distance Tolerant Content-Addressable Memory (HD-CAM) for DNA Classification
IEEE Access|2022
53 cit.
4
AM<sup>4</sup>: MRAM Crossbar Based CAM/TCAM/ACAM/AP for In-Memory Computing
IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems|2023
52 cit.
5
EDAM
Unknown Journal|2022
35 cit.
6
Toward Real-Time UAV Multi-Target Tracking Using Joint Detection and Tracking
IEEE Access|2023
34 cit.
7
P4DDPI: Securing P4-Programmable Data Plane Networks via DNS Deep Packet Inspection
Unknown Journal|2022
33 cit.
8
AIDA: Associative In-Memory Deep Learning Accelerator
IEEE Micro|2022
25 cit.
9
HoneyComb: A Darknet-Centric Proactive Deception Technique For Curating IoT Malware Forensic Artifacts
NOMS 2022-2022 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium|2022
24 cit.
10
Jbeil: Temporal Graph-Based Inductive Learning to Infer Lateral Movement in Evolving Enterprise Networks
Unknown Journal|2024
24 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
George Varghese
Microsoft (United States)
2
Robert E. Tarjan
Princeton University
3
Nick McKeown
Stanford University
4
Viktor K. Prasanna
University of Southern California
5
David Walker
Princeton University
6
Grenville Armitage
Netflix (United States)
7
Michael Mitzenmacher
Harvard University
8
Ali Sheikholeslami
University of Toronto
9
Arndt Bröder
Digital Wave (United States)
10
Uzi Vishkin
University of Maryland, College Park

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
OpenFlow
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review|2008
8.4k cit.
2
Depth-First Search and Linear Graph Algorithms
SIAM Journal on Computing|1972
6k cit.
3
P4
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review|2014
2.8k cit.
4
Fibonacci heaps and their uses in improved network optimization algorithms
Journal of the ACM|1987
2.7k cit.
5
Amortized efficiency of list update and paging rules
Communications of the ACM|1985
2.1k cit.
6
Network Applications of Bloom Filters: A Survey
Internet Mathematics|2004
2k cit.
7
A new approach to the maximum-flow problem
Journal of the ACM|1988
1.9k cit.
8
A Brief History of Generative Models for Power Law and Lognormal Distributions
Internet Mathematics|2004
1.8k cit.
9
Summary cache: a scalable wide-area Web cache sharing protocol
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking|2000
1.8k cit.
10
A network in a laptop
Unknown Journal|2010
1.8k cit.

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