Van-Thuan Pham

2.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
19 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Van-Thuan Pham is a scholar working on Software, Information Systems and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Van-Thuan Pham has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Software, 9 papers in Information Systems and 8 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Van-Thuan Pham's work include Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (16 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (8 papers) and Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (8 papers). Van-Thuan Pham is often cited by papers focused on Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (16 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (8 papers) and Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (8 papers). Van-Thuan Pham collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Singapore and Germany. Van-Thuan Pham's co-authors include Marcel Böhme, Abhik Roychoudhury, Manh-Dung Nguyen, Toby Murray, Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein, Gidon Ernst, Aldeida Aleti, Quang-Trung Ta, Christoph Treude and Patanamon Thongtanunam and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Empirical Software Engineering and Monash University Research Portal (Monash University).

In The Last Decade

Van-Thuan Pham

17 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.

Directed Greybox Fuzzing

2017 443 citations Marcel Böhme, Van-Thuan Pham et al. profile →
Coverage-based Greybox Fuzzing as Markov Chain

2016 388 citations Marcel Böhme, Van-Thuan Pham et al. profile →
Coverage-Based Greybox Fuzzing as Markov Chain

2017 237 citations Marcel Böhme, Van-Thuan Pham et al. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Van-Thuan Pham Australia	9	1.1k	759	513	355	190	19	1.4k
Christopher Salls United States	7	756 0.7×	914 1.2×	508 1.0×	570 1.6×	250 1.3×	8	1.3k
Marcel Böhme Germany	20	1.7k 1.6×	1.0k 1.3×	981 1.9×	499 1.4×	282 1.5×	54	2.1k
Bihuan Chen China	20	865 0.8×	661 0.9×	1.0k 2.0×	492 1.4×	464 2.4×	77	1.6k
Saswat Anand United States	11	1.0k 1.0×	714 0.9×	731 1.4×	221 0.6×	447 2.4×	19	1.3k
Mario Polino Italy	9	305 0.3×	581 0.8×	332 0.6×	401 1.1×	243 1.3×	23	877
Chunrong Fang China	21	694 0.7×	356 0.5×	717 1.4×	329 0.9×	304 1.6×	111	1.2k
Cristina Cifuentes Australia	17	370 0.3×	318 0.4×	346 0.7×	429 1.2×	356 1.9×	67	1.0k
Jifeng Xuan China	19	940 0.9×	215 0.3×	1.0k 2.0×	238 0.7×	276 1.5×	68	1.3k
Changhai Nie China	16	1.1k 1.0×	113 0.1×	597 1.2×	198 0.6×	266 1.4×	72	1.3k
Domenico Amalfitano Italy	15	958 0.9×	694 0.9×	717 1.4×	160 0.5×	399 2.1×	54	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Van-Thuan Pham

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Fields of papers citing papers by Van-Thuan Pham

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Van-Thuan Pham

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

All Works

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19 of 19 papers shown

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Pham, Van-Thuan, et al.. (2025). AFLNet Five Years Later: On Coverage-Guided Protocol Fuzzing. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 51(4). 960–974.

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Thongtanunam, Patanamon, et al.. (2024). An Empirical Study of Static Analysis Tools for Secure Code Review. 691–703. 5 indexed citations

3.

Cohney, Shaanan, et al.. (2024). EDEFuzz: A Web API Fuzzer for Excessive Data Exposures. 1–12. 5 indexed citations

4.

Thongtanunam, Patanamon, et al.. (2024). Toward effective secure code reviews: an empirical study of security-related coding weaknesses. Empirical Software Engineering. 29(4). 1 indexed citations

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Böhme, Marcel, et al.. (2023). Human-in-the-Loop Automatic Program Repair. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 49(10). 4526–4549. 2 indexed citations

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Pham, Van-Thuan, et al.. (2023). Fair-Siamese Approach for Accurate Fairness in Image Classification.

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Pham, Van-Thuan, et al.. (2023). Beyond the Coverage Plateau: A Comprehensive Study of Fuzz Blockers (Registered Report). 47–55. 4 indexed citations

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He, Jiayuan, et al.. (2023). Metamorphic Testing of Machine Translation Models using Back Translation. 1–8. 2 indexed citations

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Pham, Van-Thuan. (2023). AFLSmart++: Smarter Greybox Fuzzing. 76–79. 1 indexed citations

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Pham, Van-Thuan, et al.. (2022). Human-in-the-loop oracle learning for semantic bugs in string processing programs. Monash University Research Portal (Monash University). 215–226. 6 indexed citations

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Pham, Van-Thuan, et al.. (2022). State Selection Algorithms and Their Impact on The Performance of Stateful Network Protocol Fuzzing. 720–730. 18 indexed citations

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Pham, Van-Thuan, Manh-Dung Nguyen, Quang-Trung Ta, Toby Murray, & Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein. (2021). Towards Systematic and Dynamic Task Allocation for Collaborative Parallel Fuzzing. 1337–1341. 8 indexed citations

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Böhme, Marcel, et al.. (2020). Human-In-The-Loop Automatic Program Repair. 274–285. 21 indexed citations

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Pham, Van-Thuan, Marcel Böhme, & Abhik Roychoudhury. (2020). AFLNET: A Greybox Fuzzer for Network Protocols. 460–465. 148 indexed citations

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Böhme, Marcel, Van-Thuan Pham, Manh-Dung Nguyen, & Abhik Roychoudhury. (2017). Directed Greybox Fuzzing. 2329–2344. 443 indexed citations breakdown →

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Böhme, Marcel, Van-Thuan Pham, & Abhik Roychoudhury. (2017). Coverage-Based Greybox Fuzzing as Markov Chain. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 45(5). 489–506. 237 indexed citations breakdown →

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Böhme, Marcel, Van-Thuan Pham, & Abhik Roychoudhury. (2016). Coverage-based Greybox Fuzzing as Markov Chain. 1032–1043. 388 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pham, Van-Thuan, Marcel Böhme, & Abhik Roychoudhury. (2016). Model-based whitebox fuzzing for program binaries. 543–553. 52 indexed citations

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Pham, Van-Thuan, et al.. (2015). Hercules: Reproducing Crashes in Real-World Application Binaries. 2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering. 891–901. 17 indexed citations

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