Mahmood Sharif

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Mahmood Sharif is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Signal Processing and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Mahmood Sharif has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 7 papers in Signal Processing and 6 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Mahmood Sharif's work include Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (6 papers), Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning (5 papers) and Privacy, Security, and Data Protection (3 papers). Mahmood Sharif is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (6 papers), Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning (5 papers) and Privacy, Security, and Data Protection (3 papers). Mahmood Sharif collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Japan. Mahmood Sharif's co-authors include Lujo Bauer, Sruti Bhagavatula, Michael K. Reiter, Nicolas Christin, Ayumu Kubota, Akira Yamada, William Melicher, Anupam Das, Limin Jia and Joshua Tan and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages and ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security.

In The Last Decade

Mahmood Sharif

16 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Accessorize to a Crime 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 250 500 750
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. Accessorize to a Crime
    2016 788 citations Mahmood Sharif, Sruti Bhagavatula 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
Mahmood Sharif United States 7 834 372 325 200 97 19 1.1k
Sruti Bhagavatula United States 7 826 1.0× 325 0.9× 337 1.0× 124 0.6× 85 0.9× 8 1.1k
Yuanshun Yao United States 8 927 1.1× 317 0.9× 238 0.7× 126 0.6× 190 2.0× 11 1.1k
Bolun Wang United States 13 879 1.1× 246 0.7× 246 0.8× 143 0.7× 223 2.3× 17 1.2k
Shawn Shan United States 8 676 0.8× 215 0.6× 170 0.5× 66 0.3× 126 1.3× 12 824
Jianzong Wang China 15 702 0.8× 325 0.9× 143 0.4× 184 0.9× 128 1.3× 156 1000
Qipeng Guo China 11 907 1.1× 102 0.3× 219 0.7× 118 0.6× 58 0.6× 22 1.1k
Edward Raff United States 15 523 0.6× 296 0.8× 116 0.4× 173 0.9× 233 2.4× 59 832
Zhuang Li China 11 907 1.1× 150 0.4× 140 0.4× 399 2.0× 223 2.3× 47 1.3k
John Aycock Canada 14 421 0.5× 360 1.0× 71 0.2× 354 1.8× 392 4.0× 88 964
Stanley F. Chen United States 15 2.2k 2.7× 295 0.8× 252 0.8× 236 1.2× 57 0.6× 22 2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Mahmood Sharif

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mahmood Sharif

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Mahmood Sharif. 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 Mahmood Sharif. The network helps show where Mahmood Sharif may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mahmood Sharif

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

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Sharif, Mahmood, et al.. (2024). DrSec: Flexible Distributed Representations for Efficient Endpoint Security. 3609–3624. 5 indexed citations
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Chaudhary, Vipin, et al.. (2023). Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Genomic Research: A Real-Life Deployment and Vision. 85–91. 1 indexed citations
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Wu, Haoze, Clark Barrett, Mahmood Sharif, Nina Narodytska, & Gagandeep Singh. (2022). Scalable verification of GNN-based job schedulers. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages. 6(OOPSLA2). 1036–1065. 4 indexed citations
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Cobb, Camille, et al.. (2020). How risky are real users' IFTTT applets?. Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security. 505–529. 6 indexed citations
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Sharif, Mahmood, Sruti Bhagavatula, Lujo Bauer, & Michael K. Reiter. (2019). A General Framework for Adversarial Examples with Objectives. ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security. 22(3). 1–30. 102 indexed citations
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Sharif, Mahmood, et al.. (2019). A Field Study of Computer-Security Perceptions Using Anti-Virus Customer-Support Chats. CINECA IRIS Institutial Research Information System (University of Genoa). 1–12. 4 indexed citations
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Melicher, William, Anupam Das, Mahmood Sharif, Lujo Bauer, & Limin Jia. (2018). Riding out DOMsday: Towards Detecting and Preventing DOM Cross-Site Scripting. 46 indexed citations
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Tan, Joshua, et al.. (2018). Comparing Hypothetical and Realistic Privacy Valuations. 168–182. 4 indexed citations
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Sharif, Mahmood, et al.. (2018). Predicting Impending Exposure to Malicious Content from User Behavior. 1487–1501. 32 indexed citations
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Sharif, Mahmood, et al.. (2017). Self-Confidence Trumps Knowledge. 2202–2214. 58 indexed citations
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Sharif, Mahmood, Sruti Bhagavatula, Lujo Bauer, & Michael K. Reiter. (2016). Accessorize to a Crime. 1528–1540. 788 indexed citations breakdown →
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Weinberg, Zachary, et al.. (2016). Topics of Controversy: An Empirical Analysis of Web Censorship Lists. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2017(1). 42–61. 9 indexed citations
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Melicher, William, Mahmood Sharif, Joshua Tan, et al.. (2015). (Do Not) Track Me Sometimes: Users’ Contextual Preferences for Web Tracking. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2016(2). 135–154. 43 indexed citations
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Sharif, Mahmood, et al.. (2014). Higher education challenges in developing the content of curriculum with learning society approach. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations
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Dunkelman, Orr, Margarita Osadchy, & Mahmood Sharif. (2013). POSTER: Secure authentication from facial attributeswith no privacy loss. 1403–1406. 2 indexed citations

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