Brendan Dolan-Gavitt

5.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
33 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Brendan Dolan-Gavitt is a scholar working on Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Signal Processing, 19 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 13 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Brendan Dolan-Gavitt's work include Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (26 papers), Security and Verification in Computing (15 papers) and Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (10 papers). Brendan Dolan-Gavitt is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (26 papers), Security and Verification in Computing (15 papers) and Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (10 papers). Brendan Dolan-Gavitt collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Brendan Dolan-Gavitt's co-authors include Siddharth Garg, Tianyu Gu, Kang Liu, Tim Leek, Ramesh Karri, Benjamin Tan, Hammond Pearce, Baleegh Ahmad, Jonathon Giffin and Wenke Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Access and IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.

In The Last Decade

Brendan Dolan-Gavitt

31 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

BadNets: Evaluating Backdooring Attacks on Deep Neural Ne... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2022 2023 2024 2023 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. BadNets: Evaluating Backdooring Attacks on Deep Neural Networks
    2019 606 citations Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, Siddharth Garg et al. profile →
  2. Asleep at the Keyboard? Assessing the Security of GitHub Copilot’s Code Contributions
    2022 200 citations Hammond Pearce, Baleegh Ahmad et al. profile →
  3. Examining Zero-Shot Vulnerability Repair with Large Language Models
    2023 92 citations Hammond Pearce, Benjamin Tan et al. profile →
  4. VeriGen: A Large Language Model for Verilog Code Generation
    2024 79 citations Shailja Thakur, Baleegh Ahmad et al. ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems profile →
  5. Benchmarking Large Language Models for Automated Verilog RTL Code Generation
    2023 75 citations Shailja Thakur, Baleegh Ahmad et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Brendan Dolan-Gavitt United States 19 1.2k 892 769 504 404 33 2.1k
Aurélien Francillon France 21 1.1k 0.9× 1.2k 1.4× 584 0.8× 637 1.3× 347 0.9× 55 1.8k
Kehuan Zhang Hong Kong 23 1.1k 0.9× 1.3k 1.5× 1.0k 1.4× 812 1.6× 202 0.5× 56 2.1k
Minhui Xue Australia 20 1.3k 1.1× 767 0.9× 543 0.7× 505 1.0× 590 1.5× 101 2.1k
Thomas Eisenbarth Germany 22 1.6k 1.3× 534 0.6× 947 1.2× 584 1.2× 305 0.8× 88 2.2k
Zhenkai Liang Singapore 27 1.6k 1.3× 1.7k 1.9× 1.1k 1.4× 1.1k 2.2× 498 1.2× 86 2.5k
John Viega United States 18 706 0.6× 511 0.6× 817 1.1× 374 0.7× 272 0.7× 37 1.5k
David Lie Canada 20 1.2k 1.0× 1.2k 1.4× 1.1k 1.4× 828 1.6× 544 1.3× 66 2.3k
Yan Shoshitaishvili United States 20 1.1k 0.9× 1.7k 1.9× 1.1k 1.4× 604 1.2× 1.1k 2.8× 61 2.5k
Kun Sun United States 28 950 0.8× 908 1.0× 914 1.2× 1.4k 2.8× 127 0.3× 135 2.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pearce, Hammond, Baleegh Ahmad, Benjamin Tan, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, & Ramesh Karri. (2025). Asleep at the Keyboard? Assessing the Security of GitHub Copilot’s Code Contributions. Communications of the ACM. 68(2). 96–105. 9 indexed citations
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Thakur, Shailja, Baleegh Ahmad, Hammond Pearce, et al.. (2024). VeriGen: A Large Language Model for Verilog Code Generation. ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems. 29(3). 1–31. 79 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gibbs, W. R., Zhenghao Hu, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, et al.. (2024). Fuzz to the Future: Uncovering Occluded Future Vulnerabilities via Robust Fuzzing. 3719–3733.
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Pearce, Hammond, Benjamin Tan, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, et al.. (2024). (Security) Assertions by Large Language Models. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 19. 4374–4389. 32 indexed citations
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Pearce, Hammond, Benjamin Tan, Baleegh Ahmad, Ramesh Karri, & Brendan Dolan-Gavitt. (2023). Examining Zero-Shot Vulnerability Repair with Large Language Models. 2339–2356. 92 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gallagher, Kevin, et al.. (2023). Studying the Online Deepfake Community. 2(1). 6 indexed citations
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Dolan-Gavitt, Brendan, et al.. (2022). What the Fork? Finding and Analyzing Malware in GitHub Forks. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 9 indexed citations
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Pearce, Hammond, Baleegh Ahmad, Benjamin Tan, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, & Ramesh Karri. (2022). Asleep at the Keyboard? Assessing the Security of GitHub Copilot’s Code Contributions. 754–768. 200 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hu, Yu, et al.. (2022). Characterizing and Improving Bug-Finders with Synthetic Bugs. abs 1712 1674. 971–982. 2 indexed citations
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Leek, Tim, et al.. (2021). PyPANDA: Taming the PANDAmonium of Whole System Dynamic Analysis. 1 indexed citations
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Dolan-Gavitt, Brendan, et al.. (2020). HeapExpo: Pinpointing Promoted Pointers to Prevent Use-After-Free Vulnerabilities. Annual Computer Security Applications Conference. 454–465. 6 indexed citations
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Leek, Tim, et al.. (2019). The Rode0day to Less-Buggy Programs. IEEE Security & Privacy. 17(6). 84–88. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Yiwen, et al.. (2017). Lock-in-pop: Securing privileged operating system kernels by keeping on the beaten path. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 1–13. 10 indexed citations
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Leek, Tim, et al.. (2017). AutoCTF: Creating Diverse Pwnables via Automated Bug Injection. USENIX Security Symposium. 8 indexed citations
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Dolan-Gavitt, Brendan, et al.. (2016). LAVA: Large-Scale Automated Vulnerability Addition. 110–121. 180 indexed citations
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Dolan-Gavitt, Brendan, et al.. (2015). Repeatable Reverse Engineering with PANDA. 1–11. 88 indexed citations
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Dolan-Gavitt, Brendan, et al.. (2014). Repeatable Reverse Engineering for the Greater Good with PANDA. Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University). 20 indexed citations
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Dolan-Gavitt, Brendan, et al.. (2013). Tappan Zee (north) bridge. 839–850. 42 indexed citations
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Dolan-Gavitt, Brendan, Tim Leek, Michael Zhivich, Jonathon Giffin, & Wenke Lee. (2011). Virtuoso: Narrowing the Semantic Gap in Virtual Machine Introspection. 297–312. 203 indexed citations
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Dolan-Gavitt, Brendan. (2008). Forensic analysis of the Windows registry in memory. Digital Investigation. 5. S26–S32. 62 indexed citations

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