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Giovanni Vigna

Malware Analysis Web Security Vulnerability Assessment Mobile Phone Security
2165 Harold Frank Hall
University of California-Santa Barbara Computer science

About

Giovanni Vigna is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California in Santa Barbara. His current research interests include malware analysis, web security, vulnerability assessment, and mobile phone security. He also edited a book on Security and Mobile Agents and authored one on Intrusion Correlation. He has been the Program Chair of the International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2003), of the ISOC Symposium on Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS 2009), and of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in 2011. He is known for organizing and running an inter-university Capture The Flag hacking contest, called iCTF, that every year involves dozens of institutions around the world. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.

Research Performance Summary

393
Total Papers
45885
Total Citations
108
H-Index
1994-2025
Active Research Span

First Recorded Paper

Designing and implementing inter-client communication in theO2object-oriented database management system

Year: 1994

Citations: 6

Venue: International Symposium on Object-Oriented Methodologies and Systems

Latest Recorded Paper

A Large-Scale Measurement Study of the PROXY Protocol and its Security Implications

Year: 2025

Citations: 0

Venue: 2025 Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium

Last 10 Years Publication Activity

This timeline shows the professor's yearly publication activity.

2025
10
2024
15
2023
16
2022
11
2021
13
2020
13
2019
12
2018
17
2017
19
2016
13
2015
24

Publication Venues and Collaboration

Journal, Conference, and Book Publication Breakdown

Conference 259
Journal 14
Book 12

Top Coauthors

Vigna Kruegel

Research Impact by Period

2025-2026

Period Stats
Papers 10
Citations 6
Avg. Citations / Paper 0.6
H-Index 2

2020-2024

Period Stats
Papers 68
Citations 2728
Avg. Citations / Paper 40.1
H-Index 26

2015-2019

Period Stats
Papers 85
Citations 9964
Avg. Citations / Paper 117.2
H-Index 43

2010-2014

Period Stats
Papers 102
Citations 12199
Avg. Citations / Paper 119.6
H-Index 48

2005-2009

Period Stats
Papers 71
Citations 9280
Avg. Citations / Paper 130.7
H-Index 37

2000-2004

Period Stats
Papers 43
Citations 9000
Avg. Citations / Paper 209.3
H-Index 27

1995-1999

Period Stats
Papers 13
Citations 2702
Avg. Citations / Paper 207.8
H-Index 10

1990-1994

Period Stats
Papers 1
Citations 6
Avg. Citations / Paper 6
H-Index 1

Contact and Professional Links

Contact Information

vigna@cs.ucsb.edu

Detected Research Keywords

Network Intrusion Detection Detection Web Attacks Malicious Web Pages Recent Advances Intrusion Advances Intrusion Detection Anomaly Detection Web Malicious Javascript Code Cross Site Scripting Intrusion Detection System Stateful Intrusion Detection