Zane Ma

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Zane Ma is a scholar working on Signal Processing, Computer Networks and Communications and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Zane Ma has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Signal Processing, 9 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 8 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Zane Ma's work include Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (10 papers), Network Security and Intrusion Detection (6 papers) and Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting (5 papers). Zane Ma is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (10 papers), Network Security and Intrusion Detection (6 papers) and Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting (5 papers). Zane Ma collaborates with scholars based in United States. Zane Ma's co-authors include Michael Bailey, Joshua Mason, Zakir Durumeric, J. Alex Halderman, Elie Bursztein, Nick Sullivan, Manos Antonakakis, Deepak Kumar, Yi Zhou and Michalis Kallitsis and has published in prestigious journals such as USENIX Security Symposium.

In The Last Decade

Zane Ma

13 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Understanding the mirai botnet

2017 744 citations Manos Antonakakis, Michael Bailey et al. USENIX Security Symposium profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zane Ma United States	9	832	603	601	386	125	13	1.1k
Nick Sullivan Australia	6	727 0.9×	490 0.8×	522 0.9×	221 0.6×	86 0.7×	11	911
Martín Ochoa Singapore	15	630 0.8×	538 0.9×	490 0.8×	408 1.1×	140 1.1×	51	1.0k
David Adrian United States	10	573 0.7×	421 0.7×	559 0.9×	412 1.1×	98 0.8×	12	991
Michalis Kallitsis United States	11	853 1.0×	529 0.9×	595 1.0×	227 0.6×	153 1.2×	30	1.1k
Natalia Stakhanova Canada	17	902 1.1×	655 1.1×	647 1.1×	449 1.2×	68 0.5×	54	1.2k
Hamed Okhravi United States	19	733 0.9×	736 1.2×	820 1.4×	348 0.9×	196 1.6×	53	1.3k
Nikolaos Pitropakis United Kingdom	16	511 0.6×	411 0.7×	528 0.9×	310 0.8×	61 0.5×	57	947
Johanna Amann United States	11	403 0.5×	337 0.6×	458 0.8×	334 0.9×	44 0.4×	18	778
Andreas Wespi Switzerland	10	755 0.9×	399 0.7×	480 0.8×	196 0.5×	58 0.5×	21	877
Pavol Zavarsky Canada	15	387 0.5×	361 0.6×	287 0.5×	521 1.3×	69 0.6×	102	825

Countries citing papers authored by Zane Ma

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zane Ma

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zane Ma

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

All Works

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Ma, Zane, et al.. (2024). Practical Attacks Against DNS Reputation Systems. 4516–4534. 4 indexed citations

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Ma, Zane, Zakir Durumeric, Michael D. Bailey, et al.. (2023). Stale TLS Certificates: Investigating Precarious Third-Party Access to Valid TLS Keys. 222–235. 1 indexed citations

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Ma, Zane, Omar Alrawi, Charles Lever, et al.. (2022). View from Above: Exploring the Malware Ecosystem from the Upper DNS Hierarchy. 240–250. 3 indexed citations

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Ma, Zane, et al.. (2021). WebSocket Adoption and the Landscape of the Real-Time Web. 1192–1203. 16 indexed citations

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Ma, Zane, et al.. (2021). Tracing your roots. 179–194. 9 indexed citations

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Reynolds, J.K., Deepak Kumar, Zane Ma, et al.. (2020). Measuring Identity Confusion with Uniform Resource Locators. 1–12. 18 indexed citations

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Ma, Zane, et al.. (2019). The impact of secure transport protocols on phishing efficacy. USENIX Security Symposium. 2 indexed citations

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Kharraz, Amin, Zane Ma, Charles Lever, et al.. (2019). Outguard: Detecting In-Browser Covert Cryptocurrency Mining in the Wild. 840–852. 63 indexed citations

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Ma, Zane, et al.. (2018). Measuring Ethereum Network Peers. 91–104. 88 indexed citations

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Antonakakis, Manos, Michael Bailey, Matthew Bernhard, et al.. (2017). Understanding the mirai botnet. USENIX Security Symposium. 1093–1110. 744 indexed citations breakdown →

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Durumeric, Zakir, Zane Ma, Richard Barnes, et al.. (2017). The Security Impact of HTTPS Interception. 79 indexed citations

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Kumar, Deepak, Zane Ma, Zakir Durumeric, et al.. (2017). Security Challenges in an Increasingly Tangled Web. 677–684. 33 indexed citations

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Mirian, Ariana, Zane Ma, David Adrian, et al.. (2016). An Internet-wide view of ICS devices. 96–103. 75 indexed citations

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