Christopher Salls

2.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
8 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Christopher Salls is a scholar working on Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence and Software. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Salls has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Signal Processing, 6 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 6 papers in Software. Recurrent topics in Christopher Salls's work include Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (8 papers), Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (6 papers) and Security and Verification in Computing (4 papers). Christopher Salls is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (8 papers), Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (6 papers) and Security and Verification in Computing (4 papers). Christopher Salls collaborates with scholars based in United States. Christopher Salls's co-authors include Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Ruoyu Wang, Christophe Hauser, Mario Polino, Aravind Machiry, Shuang Hao, Keith R. Long and Hojjat Aghakhani and has published in prestigious journals such as OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) and Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha).

In The Last Decade

Christopher Salls

8 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Driller: Augmenting Fuzzing Through Selective Symbolic Execution

2016 532 citations Christopher Salls, Ruoyu Wang et al. profile →
SOK: (State of) The Art of War: Offensive Techniques in Binary Analysis

2016 528 citations Yan Shoshitaishvili, Ruoyu Wang et al. Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher Salls United States	7	914	756	570	508	250	8	1.3k
Van-Thuan Pham Australia	9	759 0.8×	1.1k 1.4×	355 0.6×	513 1.0×	190 0.8×	19	1.4k
Fan Long Canada	19	406 0.4×	1.2k 1.6×	424 0.7×	1.2k 2.3×	402 1.6×	44	1.8k
Mario Polino Italy	9	581 0.6×	305 0.4×	401 0.7×	332 0.7×	243 1.0×	23	877
Saswat Anand United States	11	714 0.8×	1.0k 1.3×	221 0.4×	731 1.4×	447 1.8×	19	1.3k
Scott McPeak United States	8	485 0.5×	486 0.6×	851 1.5×	496 1.0×	446 1.8×	9	1.3k
Michael Y. Levin United States	12	807 0.9×	1.5k 2.0×	552 1.0×	819 1.6×	297 1.2×	18	1.9k
Vijay Sundaresan Canada	9	352 0.4×	419 0.6×	440 0.8×	485 1.0×	308 1.2×	22	943
Jeff Huang United States	19	372 0.4×	663 0.9×	364 0.6×	546 1.1×	664 2.7×	73	1.4k
Cristina Cifuentes Australia	17	318 0.3×	370 0.5×	429 0.8×	346 0.7×	356 1.4×	67	1.0k
Linzhang Wang China	18	246 0.3×	479 0.6×	264 0.5×	418 0.8×	307 1.2×	87	945

Countries citing papers authored by Christopher Salls

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christopher Salls

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Salls

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christopher Salls. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christopher Salls based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Christopher Salls. Christopher Salls is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Salls, Christopher, Aravind Machiry, Adam Doupé, et al.. (2020). Exploring Abstraction Functions in Fuzzing. 1–9. 8 indexed citations

2.

Salls, Christopher, et al.. (2019). Neurlux. 444–455. 40 indexed citations

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Machiry, Aravind, Eric Gustafson, Chad Spensky, et al.. (2017). BOOMERANG: Exploiting the Semantic Gap in Trusted Execution Environments. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 62 indexed citations

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Shoshitaishvili, Yan, et al.. (2017). Rise of the HaCRS. 347–362. 35 indexed citations

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Salls, Christopher, et al.. (2017). Piston. 141–153. 4 indexed citations

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Machiry, Aravind, Christopher Salls, Yan Shoshitaishvili, et al.. (2017). DIFUZE. 2123–2138. 103 indexed citations

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Shoshitaishvili, Yan, Ruoyu Wang, Christopher Salls, et al.. (2016). SOK: (State of) The Art of War: Offensive Techniques in Binary Analysis. Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha). 138–157. 528 indexed citations breakdown →

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Salls, Christopher, et al.. (2016). Driller: Augmenting Fuzzing Through Selective Symbolic Execution. 532 indexed citations breakdown →

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