Yousra Aafer

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Yousra Aafer is a scholar working on Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Yousra Aafer has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Signal Processing, 14 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 10 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Yousra Aafer's work include Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (19 papers), Security and Verification in Computing (11 papers) and Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (10 papers). Yousra Aafer is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (19 papers), Security and Verification in Computing (11 papers) and Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (10 papers). Yousra Aafer collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Yousra Aafer's co-authors include Xiangyu Zhang, Wen‐Chuan Lee, Shiqing Ma, Yingqi Liu, Juan Zhai, Weihang Wang, Guanhong Tao, Wenliang Du, Dongyan Xu and Hongjun Choi and has published in prestigious journals such as USENIX Security Symposium, View and Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security.

In The Last Decade

Yousra Aafer

25 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Trojaning Attack on Neural Networks

2018 611 citations Yingqi Liu, Shiqing Ma et al. View profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yousra Aafer United States	14	919	516	263	215	204	25	1.2k
Yingqi Liu United States	16	1.3k 1.5×	463 0.9×	228 0.9×	136 0.6×	348 1.7×	30	1.6k
Sergey Bratus United States	16	444 0.5×	394 0.8×	335 1.3×	294 1.4×	64 0.3×	67	803
Kevin Eykholt United States	6	908 1.0×	316 0.6×	130 0.5×	102 0.5×	215 1.1×	12	1.1k
Derui Wang Australia	8	539 0.6×	323 0.6×	239 0.9×	114 0.5×	145 0.7×	29	770
Brendan Dolan-Gavitt United States	19	1.2k 1.3×	892 1.7×	504 1.9×	769 3.6×	189 0.9×	33	2.1k
Xiaohui Kuang China	18	536 0.6×	206 0.4×	342 1.3×	155 0.7×	137 0.7×	80	897
Zhen Han China	14	383 0.4×	369 0.7×	455 1.7×	366 1.7×	61 0.3×	96	915
Aurélien Francillon France	21	1.1k 1.2×	1.2k 2.4×	637 2.4×	584 2.7×	110 0.5×	55	1.8k
Chengyu Song United States	21	954 1.0×	820 1.6×	429 1.6×	397 1.8×	32 0.2×	56	1.3k
Seung-Hyun Seo South Korea	17	340 0.4×	168 0.3×	436 1.7×	357 1.7×	128 0.6×	53	889

Countries citing papers authored by Yousra Aafer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yousra Aafer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yousra Aafer

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

All Works

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Zhang, Zhuo, et al.. (2023). D-ARM: Disassembling ARM Binaries by Lightweight Superset Instruction Interpretation and Graph Modeling. 2391–2408. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhuo, et al.. (2022). Poirot. Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. 937–950. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhuo, et al.. (2021). StochFuzz: Sound and Cost-effective Fuzzing of Stripped Binaries by Incremental and Stochastic Rewriting. 659–676. 19 indexed citations

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Aafer, Yousra, et al.. (2021). Android SmartTVs Vulnerability Discovery via Log-Guided Fuzzing. 2759–2776. 10 indexed citations

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Aafer, Yousra, et al.. (2021). Dissecting Residual APIs in Custom Android ROMs. 1598–1611. 5 indexed citations

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Choi, Hongjun, et al.. (2020). Software-based Realtime Recovery from Sensor Attacks on Robotic Vehicles. 349–364. 13 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhuo, Yonghwi Kwon, Yousra Aafer, et al.. (2020). PMP: Cost-effective Forced Execution with Probabilistic Memory Pre-planning. 1121–1138. 17 indexed citations

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Zheng, Yunhui, Hogun Park, Weihang Wang, et al.. (2020). Finding client-side business flow tampering vulnerabilities. 222–233. 10 indexed citations

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Liu, Yingqi, Wen‐Chuan Lee, Guanhong Tao, et al.. (2019). ABS: Scanning Neural Networks for Back-doors by Artificial Brain Stimulation. View. 1265–1282. 205 indexed citations

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Aafer, Yousra, et al.. (2018). AceDroid: Normalizing Diverse Android Access Control Checks for Inconsistency Detection. 24 indexed citations

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Tang, Zhenhao, Juan Zhai, Minxue Pan, et al.. (2018). Dual-force: understanding WebView malware via cross-language forced execution. View. 714–725. 6 indexed citations

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Choi, Hongjun, Wen‐Chuan Lee, Yousra Aafer, et al.. (2018). Detecting Attacks Against Robotic Vehicles. 801–816. 117 indexed citations

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Wang, Weihang, et al.. (2018). AdBudgetKiller. 297–307. 4 indexed citations

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Liu, Yingqi, Shiqing Ma, Yousra Aafer, et al.. (2018). Trojaning Attack on Neural Networks. View. 611 indexed citations breakdown →

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Huang, Jianjun, Yousra Aafer, David Perry, Xiangyu Zhang, & Chen Tian. (2017). UI driven Android application reduction. 286–296. 7 indexed citations

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Chen, Haining, Ninghui Li, William Enck, Yousra Aafer, & Xiangyu Zhang. (2017). Analysis of SEAndroid Policies. 553–565. 9 indexed citations

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Wang, Weihang, Yonghwi Kwon, Yunhui Zheng, et al.. (2017). PAD: Programming third-party web advertisement censorship. 240–251. 2 indexed citations

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Aafer, Yousra, et al.. (2016). Harvesting Inconsistent Security Configurations in Custom Android ROMs via Differential Analysis.. USENIX Security Symposium. 1153–1168. 15 indexed citations

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Aafer, Yousra, Nan Zhang, Zhongwen Zhang, et al.. (2015). Hare Hunting in the Wild Android. 1248–1259. 34 indexed citations

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Aafer, Yousra, Wenliang Du, & Heng Yin. (2014). DroidAPIMiner: Mining API-Level Features for Robust Malware Detection in Android. 33 indexed citations

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