Thanassis Avgerinos

2.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
14 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Thanassis Avgerinos is a scholar working on Software, Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Thanassis Avgerinos has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Software, 9 papers in Signal Processing and 8 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Thanassis Avgerinos's work include Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (10 papers), Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (9 papers) and Security and Verification in Computing (6 papers). Thanassis Avgerinos is often cited by papers focused on Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (10 papers), Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (9 papers) and Security and Verification in Computing (6 papers). Thanassis Avgerinos collaborates with scholars based in United States, Greece and Argentina. Thanassis Avgerinos's co-authors include David Brumley, Edward J. Schwartz, Sang Kil, Maverick Woo, JongHyup Lee, David S. Warren, Gustavo Grieco, Konstantinos Sagonas, John D. Davis and Mor Harchol‐Balter and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, European Journal of Operational Research and IEEE Security & Privacy.

In The Last Decade

Thanassis Avgerinos

14 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

All You Ever Wanted to Know about Dynamic Taint Analysis and Forward Symbolic Execution (but Might Have Been Afraid to Ask)

2010 450 citations Edward J. Schwartz, Thanassis Avgerinos et al. Figshare profile →
Unleashing Mayhem on Binary Code

2012 330 citations Sang Kil, Thanassis Avgerinos et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thanassis Avgerinos United States	11	955	759	649	621	244	14	1.4k
Maverick Woo United States	11	652 0.7×	471 0.6×	361 0.6×	413 0.7×	200 0.8×	14	919
Hakjoo Oh South Korea	18	479 0.5×	669 0.9×	434 0.7×	694 1.1×	141 0.6×	63	1.1k
Juan Caballero Spain	23	1.2k 1.3×	389 0.5×	833 1.3×	1.0k 1.6×	1.0k 4.1×	57	1.8k
Fan Long Canada	19	406 0.4×	1.2k 1.6×	424 0.7×	1.2k 1.9×	402 1.6×	44	1.8k
Jeff Perkins United States	14	576 0.6×	1.1k 1.4×	705 1.1×	1.0k 1.7×	540 2.2×	22	1.8k
Hee Beng Kuan Tan Singapore	21	631 0.7×	582 0.8×	490 0.8×	1.1k 1.8×	374 1.5×	78	1.4k
Veselin Raychev Switzerland	20	550 0.6×	869 1.1×	621 1.0×	1.2k 2.0×	450 1.8×	34	1.6k
Cemal Yılmaz Türkiye	17	194 0.2×	634 0.8×	347 0.5×	493 0.8×	345 1.4×	68	1.0k
Mariano Ceccato Italy	21	443 0.5×	595 0.8×	645 1.0×	1.1k 1.8×	350 1.4×	91	1.4k
Mark Grechanik United States	22	270 0.3×	799 1.1×	460 0.7×	1.4k 2.3×	538 2.2×	66	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Thanassis Avgerinos

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thanassis Avgerinos

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All Works

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14 of 14 papers shown

Avgerinos, Thanassis, et al.. (2022). GraphFuzz. 1070–1081. 22 indexed citations

Doroudi, Sherwin, Thanassis Avgerinos, & Mor Harchol‐Balter. (2020). To clean or not to clean: Malware removal strategies for servers under load. European Journal of Operational Research. 292(2). 596–609. 5 indexed citations

Kil, Sang, et al.. (2018). Optimizing Seed Selection for Fuzzing. Research Showcase @ Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Mellon University). 861–875. 67 indexed citations

Avgerinos, Thanassis, et al.. (2018). AEG: Automatic Exploit Generation. Figshare. 56 indexed citations

Schwartz, Edward J., Thanassis Avgerinos, & David Brumley. (2018). Q: Exploit Hardening Made Easy. Research Showcase @ Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Mellon University). 25–25. 39 indexed citations

Avgerinos, Thanassis, et al.. (2018). The Mayhem Cyber Reasoning System. IEEE Security & Privacy. 16(2). 52–60. 17 indexed citations

Lee, JongHyup, Thanassis Avgerinos, & David Brumley. (2018). TIE: Principled Reverse Engineering of Types in Binary Programs. Figshare. 62 indexed citations

Avgerinos, Thanassis, et al.. (2016). Enhancing symbolic execution with veritesting. Communications of the ACM. 59(6). 93–100. 9 indexed citations

Avgerinos, Thanassis, et al.. (2014). Automatic exploit generation. Communications of the ACM. 57(2). 74–84. 155 indexed citations

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Avgerinos, Thanassis, et al.. (2014). Enhancing symbolic execution with veritesting. 1083–1094. 131 indexed citations

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Kil, Sang, et al.. (2012). Unleashing Mayhem on Binary Code. 380–394. 330 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schwartz, Edward J., Thanassis Avgerinos, & David Brumley. (2010). All You Ever Wanted to Know about Dynamic Taint Analysis and Forward Symbolic Execution (but Might Have Been Afraid to Ask). Figshare. 317–331. 450 indexed citations breakdown →

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Avgerinos, Thanassis & Konstantinos Sagonas. (2009). Cleaning up Erlang code is a dirty job but somebody's gotta do it. DSpace - NTUA (National Technical University of Athens). 1–10. 6 indexed citations

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Sagonas, Konstantinos & Thanassis Avgerinos. (2009). Automatic refactoring of Erlang programs. DSpace - NTUA (National Technical University of Athens). 13–24. 11 indexed citations

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