Derek Bruening

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Derek Bruening is a scholar working on Hardware and Architecture, Computer Networks and Communications and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Derek Bruening has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Hardware and Architecture, 15 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 11 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Derek Bruening's work include Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (18 papers), Security and Verification in Computing (9 papers) and Advanced Data Storage Technologies (8 papers). Derek Bruening is often cited by papers focused on Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (18 papers), Security and Verification in Computing (9 papers) and Advanced Data Storage Technologies (8 papers). Derek Bruening collaborates with scholars based in United States, Singapore and Italy. Derek Bruening's co-authors include Saman Amarasinghe, Vladimir Kiriansky, Qin Zhao, Evelyn Duesterwald, Weng‐Fai Wong, Gregory T. Sullivan, Srishti Banerji, Devabhaktuni Srikrishna, Brian Demsky and Scott Mahlke and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM SIGPLAN Notices, National University of Singapore and USENIX Annual Technical Conference.

In The Last Decade

Derek Bruening

22 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

AddressSanitizer: a fast address sanity checker 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 100 200 300 400
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. AddressSanitizer: a fast address sanity checker
    2012 413 citations Derek Bruening et al. USENIX Annual Technical Conference profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Derek Bruening United States 15 787 690 688 601 351 23 1.4k
Dinakar Dhurjati United States 13 892 1.1× 604 0.9× 393 0.6× 571 1.0× 349 1.0× 21 1.2k
Baris Kasikci United States 18 707 0.9× 584 0.8× 637 0.9× 344 0.6× 417 1.2× 62 1.3k
Jason D. Hiser United States 16 539 0.7× 478 0.7× 490 0.7× 428 0.7× 278 0.8× 56 1.0k
Scott McPeak United States 8 851 1.1× 446 0.6× 408 0.6× 485 0.8× 496 1.4× 9 1.3k
John Criswell United States 13 579 0.7× 376 0.5× 349 0.5× 401 0.7× 313 0.9× 35 912
Dave Maier United States 3 782 1.0× 538 0.8× 179 0.3× 691 1.1× 297 0.8× 4 1.0k
Volodymyr Kuznetsov Switzerland 10 557 0.7× 256 0.4× 242 0.4× 612 1.0× 314 0.9× 12 1.1k
László Szekeres United States 7 1.0k 1.3× 329 0.5× 226 0.3× 866 1.4× 345 1.0× 8 1.2k
Stelios Sidiroglou-Douskos United States 12 355 0.5× 257 0.4× 306 0.4× 280 0.5× 229 0.7× 20 865
Stefan Brunthaler United States 16 933 1.2× 380 0.6× 263 0.4× 735 1.2× 316 0.9× 38 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Derek Bruening

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Fields of papers citing papers by Derek Bruening

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Derek Bruening. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Derek Bruening. The network helps show where Derek Bruening may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Derek Bruening

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Derek Bruening. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Derek Bruening 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 Derek Bruening. Derek Bruening is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Demsky, Brian, et al.. (2015). Optimizing binary translation of dynamically generated code. 68–78. 11 indexed citations
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Moseley, Tipp, et al.. (2013). Instant profiling: Instrumentation sampling for profiling datacenter applications. 1–10. 9 indexed citations
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Moseley, Tipp, et al.. (2013). Instant Profiling: Instrumentation Sampling for Profiling Datacenter Applications. 4 indexed citations
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Bruening, Derek, et al.. (2012). AddressSanitizer: a fast address sanity checker. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 28–28. 413 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bruening, Derek, Qin Zhao, & Saman Amarasinghe. (2012). Transparent dynamic instrumentation. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 47(7). 133–144. 15 indexed citations
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Bruening, Derek, Qin Zhao, & Saman Amarasinghe. (2012). Transparent dynamic instrumentation. 133–144. 74 indexed citations
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Bruening, Derek & Qin Zhao. (2011). Practical memory checking with Dr. Memory. 213–223. 49 indexed citations
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Zhao, Qin, et al.. (2011). Dynamic cache contention detection in multi-threaded applications. National University of Singapore. 27–38. 52 indexed citations
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Zhao, Qin, et al.. (2011). Dynamic cache contention detection in multi-threaded applications. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 46(7). 27–38. 6 indexed citations
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Zhao, Qin, Derek Bruening, & Saman Amarasinghe. (2010). Umbra. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 22–31. 46 indexed citations
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Zhao, Qin, Derek Bruening, & Saman Amarasinghe. (2010). Efficient memory shadowing for 64-bit architectures. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 45(8). 93–102. 1 indexed citations
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Zhao, Qin, Derek Bruening, & Saman Amarasinghe. (2010). Efficient memory shadowing for 64-bit architectures. 93–102. 17 indexed citations
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Bruening, Derek, et al.. (2006). Thread-Shared Software Code Caches. 28–38. 29 indexed citations
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Bruening, Derek, et al.. (2003). An infrastructure for adaptive dynamic optimization. 265–275. 148 indexed citations
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Sullivan, Gregory T., et al.. (2003). Dynamic native optimization of interpreters. 50–57. 42 indexed citations
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Kiriansky, Vladimir, Derek Bruening, & Saman Amarasinghe. (2003). Execution Model Enforcement Via Program Shepherding. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations
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Kiriansky, Vladimir, Derek Bruening, & Saman Amarasinghe. (2002). Secure Execution via Program Shepherding. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 191–206. 352 indexed citations
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Bruening, Derek, Devabhaktuni Srikrishna, & Saman Amarasinghe. (2000). Softspec: Software-based Speculative Parallelism. 34(6). 396–401. 17 indexed citations
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Bruening, Derek, Evelyn Duesterwald, & Saman Amarasinghe. (2000). Design and Implementation of a Dynamic Optimization Framework for Windows. 58 indexed citations
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Bruening, Derek & John Chapin. (2000). Systematic Testing of Multithreaded Programs. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations

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