Hammond Pearce

2.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
47 papers, 890 citations indexed

About

Hammond Pearce is a scholar working on Hardware and Architecture, Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Hammond Pearce has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 890 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Hardware and Architecture, 18 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 12 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Hammond Pearce's work include Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security (14 papers), Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (12 papers) and Security and Verification in Computing (10 papers). Hammond Pearce is often cited by papers focused on Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security (14 papers), Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (12 papers) and Security and Verification in Computing (10 papers). Hammond Pearce collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Hammond Pearce's co-authors include Ramesh Karri, Benjamin Tan, Baleegh Ahmad, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, Siddharth Garg, Shailja Thakur, Partha S. Roop, Srinivas Pinisetty, Nïkhil Gupta and Abhisek Ukil and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Communications of the ACM and IEEE Access.

In The Last Decade

Hammond Pearce

41 papers receiving 872 citations

Hit Papers

Asleep at the Keyboard? Assessing the Security of GitHub ... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 2023 2023 2024 2023 50 100 150 200
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. Asleep at the Keyboard? Assessing the Security of GitHub Copilot’s Code Contributions
    2022 200 citations Hammond Pearce, Baleegh Ahmad et al. profile →
  2. Chip-Chat: Challenges and Opportunities in Conversational Hardware Design
    2023 111 citations Siddharth Garg, Ramesh Karri 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
Hammond Pearce United States 13 327 272 204 180 139 47 890
Eunsuk Kang United States 14 268 0.8× 176 0.6× 55 0.3× 150 0.8× 94 0.7× 64 696
Samir Ouchani France 13 193 0.6× 160 0.6× 78 0.4× 90 0.5× 46 0.3× 64 546
Yousra Aafer United States 14 919 2.8× 215 0.8× 101 0.5× 147 0.8× 516 3.7× 25 1.2k
Osbert Bastani United States 16 329 1.0× 183 0.7× 38 0.2× 208 1.2× 136 1.0× 48 668
Alessandra De Benedictis Italy 17 151 0.5× 389 1.4× 95 0.5× 24 0.1× 122 0.9× 63 796
Xiaoxing Ma China 20 532 1.6× 673 2.5× 88 0.4× 503 2.8× 303 2.2× 163 1.5k
Rudolf Ramler Austria 15 233 0.7× 517 1.9× 30 0.1× 512 2.8× 68 0.5× 96 870
Peter Kilpatrick United Kingdom 14 288 0.9× 371 1.4× 149 0.7× 38 0.2× 40 0.3× 85 866
Andrea Stocco Italy 21 388 1.2× 602 2.2× 31 0.2× 716 4.0× 178 1.3× 46 1.3k
Amin Nikanjam Canada 14 296 0.9× 242 0.9× 18 0.1× 212 1.2× 40 0.3× 52 657

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hammond Pearce

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hammond Pearce

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pearce, Hammond, et al.. (2025). On cyber sabotage risks in automated manufacturing of advanced composites. Additive Manufacturing Letters. 13. 100280–100280. 1 indexed citations
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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, et al.. (2025). Automatically Improving LLM-based Verilog Generation using EDA Tool Feedback. ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems. 30(6). 1–26.
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Chau, Chi-Kin, et al.. (2024). Systematic Study of Cybersecurity Threats for Smart Inverters. Australasian Journal of Paramedicine. 669–675. 1 indexed citations
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Pinisetty, Srinivas, et al.. (2024). Runtime Verified Neural Networks for Cyber-Physical Systems. 44–51. 1 indexed citations
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Krishnamurthy, P., et al.. (2024). REMaQE: Reverse Engineering Math Equations from Executables. ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems. 8(4). 1–25. 1 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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Ahmad, Baleegh, Shailja Thakur, Benjamin Tan, Ramesh Karri, & Hammond Pearce. (2024). On Hardware Security Bug Code Fixes by Prompting Large Language Models. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 19. 4043–4057. 33 indexed citations
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Garg, Siddharth, et al.. (2024). Evaluating LLMs for Hardware Design and Test. 1–6. 5 indexed citations
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Sadhukhan, Rajat, et al.. (2024). FEINT: Automated Framework for Efficient INsertion of Templates/Trojans into FPGAs. Information. 15(7). 395–395.
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Pearce, Hammond, et al.. (2024). Toward Hardware Security Benchmarking of LLMs. 1–7. 3 indexed citations
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Thakur, Shailja, et al.. (2023). Invited Paper: Towards the Imagenets of ML4EDA. 1–7. 1 indexed citations
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Garg, Siddharth, et al.. (2023). Chip-Chat: Challenges and Opportunities in Conversational Hardware Design. 1–6. 111 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pearce, Hammond, et al.. (2022). Determination of Fiber Content in 3-D Printed Composite Parts Using Image Analysis. IEEE Embedded Systems Letters. 14(3). 115–118. 3 indexed citations
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Krishnamurthy, P., et al.. (2022). Multi-Modal Side Channel Data Driven Golden-Free Detection of Software and Firmware Trojans. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 20(6). 4664–4677. 4 indexed citations
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Gailani, Gaffar, et al.. (2022). Application of micro-computed tomography for authentication of 3D printed composite parts. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 100104–100104. 4 indexed citations
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Pearce, Hammond, et al.. (2022). Detecting Hardware Trojans in PCBs Using Side Channel Loopbacks. IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems. 30(7). 926–937. 18 indexed citations
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Pearce, Hammond, et al.. (2021). Uncertainty quantification in dimensions dataset of additive manufactured NIST standard test artifact. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 38. 107286–107286. 6 indexed citations

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