William Melicher

1.1k total citations
21 papers, 655 citations indexed

About

William Melicher is a scholar working on Information Systems, Signal Processing and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, William Melicher has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 655 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Information Systems, 13 papers in Signal Processing and 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in William Melicher's work include Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (12 papers), User Authentication and Security Systems (11 papers) and Security and Verification in Computing (5 papers). William Melicher is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (12 papers), User Authentication and Security Systems (11 papers) and Security and Verification in Computing (5 papers). William Melicher collaborates with scholars based in United States, New Zealand and United Kingdom. William Melicher's co-authors include Lujo Bauer, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Nicolas Christin, Blase Ur, Saranga Komanduri, Michelle L. Mazurek, Sean M. Segreti, Richard Shay, Mahmood Sharif and Hana Habib and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems and File and Storage Technologies.

In The Last Decade

William Melicher

21 papers receiving 629 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Melicher United States 14 504 357 185 128 96 21 655
Sacha Brostoff United Kingdom 8 583 1.2× 310 0.9× 231 1.2× 61 0.5× 139 1.4× 14 717
Markus Dürmuth Germany 12 447 0.9× 401 1.1× 139 0.8× 272 2.1× 78 0.8× 41 725
Timothy Vidas United States 13 1.0k 2.0× 968 2.7× 149 0.8× 174 1.4× 111 1.2× 28 1.2k
Abbas Razaghpanah United States 11 217 0.4× 275 0.8× 237 1.3× 265 2.1× 25 0.3× 20 618
Kevin Roundy United States 10 184 0.4× 224 0.6× 83 0.4× 179 1.4× 29 0.3× 19 480
Ehsan Toreini United Kingdom 11 154 0.3× 104 0.3× 107 0.6× 130 1.0× 35 0.4× 31 349
Sampsa Rauti Finland 11 127 0.3× 144 0.4× 80 0.4× 106 0.8× 54 0.6× 57 374
Devdatta Akhawe United States 13 797 1.6× 455 1.3× 179 1.0× 478 3.7× 22 0.2× 18 1.0k
Iasonas Polakis Greece 11 355 0.7× 165 0.5× 187 1.0× 239 1.9× 19 0.2× 21 556
Tzipora Halevi United States 14 443 0.9× 125 0.4× 137 0.7× 148 1.2× 9 0.1× 20 568

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Melicher

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Melicher

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Melicher, William, et al.. (2022). Bounded Abstract Effects. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. 44(1). 1–48. 1 indexed citations
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Melicher, William, et al.. (2022). PhishInPatterns. 589–604. 8 indexed citations
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Melicher, William, Clement Fung, Lujo Bauer, & Limin Jia. (2021). Towards a Lightweight, Hybrid Approach for Detecting DOM XSS Vulnerabilities with Machine Learning. 2684–2695. 20 indexed citations
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Melicher, William, et al.. (2020). A case study in language-based security: building an I/O library for Wyvern. 34–47. 2 indexed citations
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Melicher, William, et al.. (2018). Using object capabilities and effects to build an authority-safe module system. 1–1. 1 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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Segreti, Sean M., William Melicher, Saranga Komanduri, et al.. (2017). Diversify to survive: making passwords stronger with adaptive policies. Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security. 1–12. 17 indexed citations
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Melicher, William, Blase Ur, Sean M. Segreti, et al.. (2017). Better Passwords through Science (and Neural Networks).. 42. 4 indexed citations
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Degeling, Martin, Roberto Yus, Anupam Das, et al.. (2017). Towards Privacy-Aware Smart Buildings: Capturing, Communicating, and Enforcing Privacy Policies and Preferences. Maryland Shared Open Access Repository (USMAI Consortium). 193–198. 37 indexed citations
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Ur, Blase, Maung Aung, Lujo Bauer, et al.. (2017). Design and Evaluation of a Data-Driven Password Meter. 3775–3786. 71 indexed citations
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Habib, Hana, Jessica Colnago, William Melicher, et al.. (2017). Password Creation in the Presence of Blacklists. 18 indexed citations
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Melicher, William, et al.. (2017). A Capability-Based Module System for Authority Control. DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics). 27. 4 indexed citations
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Melicher, William, Blase Ur, Saranga Komanduri, et al.. (2016). Fast, Lean, and Accurate: Modeling Password Guessability Using Neural Networks. USENIX Security Symposium. 175–191. 130 indexed citations
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Sleeper, Manya, William Melicher, Hana Habib, et al.. (2016). Sharing Personal Content Online. 101–112. 32 indexed citations
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Melicher, William, Sean M. Segreti, Richard Shay, et al.. (2016). Usability and Security of Text Passwords on Mobile Devices. 527–539. 60 indexed citations
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Ur, Blase, Sean M. Segreti, Lujo Bauer, et al.. (2015). Measuring real-world accuracies and biases in modeling password guessability. USENIX Security Symposium. 463–481. 84 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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Mazurek, Michelle L., Yuan Liang, William Melicher, et al.. (2014). Toward strong, usable access control for shared distributed data. File and Storage Technologies. 89–103. 14 indexed citations
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