Guofei Gu

12.6k total citations · 10 hit papers
120 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Guofei Gu is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Guofei Gu has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 62 papers in Signal Processing and 60 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Guofei Gu's work include Network Security and Intrusion Detection (72 papers), Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (59 papers) and Software-Defined Networks and 5G (34 papers). Guofei Gu is often cited by papers focused on Network Security and Intrusion Detection (72 papers), Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (59 papers) and Software-Defined Networks and 5G (34 papers). Guofei Gu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Hong Kong. Guofei Gu's co-authors include Wenke Lee, Seungwon Shin, Phillip Porras, Vinod Yegneswaran, Roberto Perdisci, Lei Xu, Martin Fong, Haopei Wang, Chao Yang and Junjie Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

In The Last Decade

Guofei Gu

117 papers receiving 7.6k citations

Hit Papers

BotMiner: clustering analysis of network traffic for prot... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2008 2008 2007 2013 2012 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. BotMiner: clustering analysis of network traffic for protocol- and structure-independent botnet detection
    2008 664 citations Guofei Gu, Roberto Perdisci et al. Journal of Bioresource Management profile →
  2. BotSniffer: Detecting Botnet Command and Control Channels in Network Traffic
    2008 473 citations Guofei Gu, Wenke Lee et al. Journal of Bioresource Management profile →
  3. BotHunter: detecting malware infection through IDS-driven dialog correlation
    2007 454 citations Guofei Gu, Phillip Porras et al. USENIX Security Symposium profile →
  4. AVANT-GUARD
    2013 451 citations Seungwon Shin, Vinod Yegneswaran et al. profile →
  5. A security enforcement kernel for OpenFlow networks
    2012 378 citations Seungwon Shin, Vinod Yegneswaran et al. profile →
  6. FRESCO: Modular Composable Security Services for Software-Defined Networks
    2013 374 citations Phillip Porras, Martin Fong et al. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium profile →
  7. Poisoning Network Visibility in Software-Defined Networks: New Attacks and Countermeasures
    2015 295 citations Sungmin Hong, Lei Xu et al. profile →
  8. FloodGuard: A DoS Attack Prevention Extension in Software-Defined Networks
    2015 272 citations Haopei Wang, Lei Xu et al. profile →
  9. AppIntent
    2013 256 citations Zhemin Yang, Min Yang et al. profile →
  10. Empirical Evaluation and New Design for Fighting Evolving Twitter Spammers
    2013 228 citations Chao Yang, Guofei Gu et al. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Guofei Gu United States 39 6.6k 4.1k 3.7k 2.4k 619 120 8.1k
Dongyan Xu United States 42 3.8k 0.6× 2.1k 0.5× 2.2k 0.6× 2.2k 0.9× 405 0.7× 200 5.4k
Angelos D. Keromytis United States 40 4.1k 0.6× 4.1k 1.0× 2.8k 0.8× 2.0k 0.8× 363 0.6× 219 6.5k
Michael Bailey United States 35 3.2k 0.5× 2.6k 0.6× 2.2k 0.6× 1.9k 0.8× 142 0.2× 94 4.8k
Engin Kirda United States 46 4.8k 0.7× 4.6k 1.1× 6.0k 1.6× 5.4k 2.3× 1.5k 2.4× 147 9.1k
Angelos Stavrou United States 31 3.2k 0.5× 2.1k 0.5× 2.3k 0.6× 1.5k 0.6× 251 0.4× 175 4.5k
Davide Balzarotti France 37 2.2k 0.3× 2.3k 0.6× 2.8k 0.8× 2.4k 1.0× 643 1.0× 113 4.5k
Miguel Castro United States 36 9.3k 1.4× 2.6k 0.6× 1.0k 0.3× 3.7k 1.6× 249 0.4× 96 10.9k
Karl Levitt United States 30 3.2k 0.5× 1.9k 0.5× 1.5k 0.4× 1.1k 0.5× 579 0.9× 123 4.7k
Heejo Lee South Korea 27 2.8k 0.4× 1.6k 0.4× 1.2k 0.3× 1.0k 0.4× 273 0.4× 123 3.9k
R. Sekar United States 34 2.4k 0.4× 3.1k 0.7× 2.7k 0.7× 1.4k 0.6× 335 0.5× 101 4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Guofei Gu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Guofei Gu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Guofei Gu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Guofei Gu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Guofei Gu 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 Guofei Gu. Guofei Gu 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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Wang, Zhihao, Lei Xue, Xiapu Luo, Xiaobo Ma, & Guofei Gu. (2025). Driving State-Aware Anomaly Detection for Autonomous Vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 20. 3788–3803. 1 indexed citations
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Huang, Heqing, et al.. (2025). LLMs in Software Security: A Survey of Vulnerability Detection Techniques and Insights. ACM Computing Surveys. 58(5). 1–35. 2 indexed citations
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Lee, Seungsoo, et al.. (2024). Enhancing security in SDN: Systematizing attacks and defenses from a penetration perspective. Computer Networks. 241. 110203–110203. 9 indexed citations
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Gu, Guofei, et al.. (2023). #DM-Me: Susceptibility to Direct Messaging-Based Scams. 494–508. 1 indexed citations
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Stoleru, Radu, et al.. (2022). On Detecting Route Hijacking Attack in Opportunistic Mobile Networks. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 20(3). 2516–2532. 6 indexed citations
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Li, Guanyu, Menghao Zhang, Shicheng Wang, et al.. (2021). Enabling Performant, Flexible and Cost-Efficient DDoS Defense With Programmable Switches. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 29(4). 1509–1526. 20 indexed citations
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Cao, Jiahao, et al.. (2020). When Match Fields Do Not Need to Match: Buffered Packets Hijacking in SDN. 18 indexed citations
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Yang, Guangliang, Jeff Huang, & Guofei Gu. (2019). Iframes/Popups Are Dangerous in Mobile WebView: Studying and Mitigating Differential Context Vulnerabilities. USENIX Security Symposium. 977–994. 6 indexed citations
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Ahn, Gail‐Joon, Guofei Gu, Hongxin Hu, & Seungwon Shin. (2019). Guest Editors’ Introduction: Special Section on Security in Emerging Networking Technologies. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 16(6). 913–914. 2 indexed citations
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Cao, Jiahao, Qi Li, Kun Sun, et al.. (2019). The CrossPath Attack: Disrupting the SDN Control Channel via Shared Links.. USENIX Security Symposium. 19–36. 33 indexed citations
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Xu, Lei, Jeff Huang, Sungmin Hong, Jialong Zhang, & Guofei Gu. (2017). Attacking the Brain: Races in the SDN Control Plane. USENIX Security Symposium. 451–468. 40 indexed citations
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Han, Weili, et al.. (2016). Shadow Attacks Based on Password Reuses: A Quantitative Empirical Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 15(2). 309–320. 31 indexed citations
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Nan, Yuhong, Min Yang, Zhemin Yang, et al.. (2015). UIPicker: user-input privacy identification in mobile applications. USENIX Security Symposium. 993–1008. 66 indexed citations
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Wang, Haopei, Lei Xu, & Guofei Gu. (2015). FloodGuard: A DoS Attack Prevention Extension in Software-Defined Networks. 239–250. 272 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhang, Jialong & Guofei Gu. (2013). NEIGHBORWATCHER: A Content-Agnostic Comment Spam Inference System.. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium. 14 indexed citations
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Gu, Guofei, et al.. (2013). CATS: Characterizing automation of Twitter spammers. 1–10. 75 indexed citations
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Gu, Guofei, Roberto Perdisci, Junjie Zhang, & Wenke Lee. (2008). BotMiner: clustering analysis of network traffic for protocol- and structure-independent botnet detection. Journal of Bioresource Management. 139–154. 664 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gu, Guofei, Phillip Porras, Vinod Yegneswaran, Martin Fong, & Wenke Lee. (2007). BotHunter: detecting malware infection through IDS-driven dialog correlation. USENIX Security Symposium. 12. 454 indexed citations breakdown →
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Perdisci, Roberto, Guofei Gu, & Wenke Lee. (2006). Using an Ensemble of One-Class SVM Classifiers to Harden Payload-based Anomaly Detection Systems. 488–498. 159 indexed citations

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