Scholar
Zakir Durumeric
Google Scholar ID: TxPSRHIAAAAJ
Stanford University
Citations & Impact
Citations
8,953
H-index
39
i10-index
61
Publications
20
Co-authors
67
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published several papers, including: Censys: A Map of Internet Hosts and Services (ACM SIGCOMM, 2025); Characterizing the MrDeepFakes Sexual Deepfake Marketplace (USENIX Security Symposium, 2025), which received an Honorable Mention for Best Paper; Exposing and Circumventing SNI-based QUIC Censorship of the Great Firewall of China (USENIX Security Symposium, 2025), also receiving an Honorable Mention for Best Paper; CATO: End-to-End Optimization of ML-Based Traffic Analysis Pipelines (NSDI, 2025); Democratizing LEO Satellite Network Measurement (ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP PERFORMANCE, 2024); Specious Sites: Tracking the Spread and Sway of Spurious News Stories at Scale (IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2024); Hate Raids on Twitch: Echoes of the Past, New Modalities, and Implications for Platform Governance (CSCW, 2023), which won the Best Paper Award; A World Wide View of Browsing the World Wide Web (IMC, 2022); Retina: Analyzing 100 GbE Traffic on Commodity Hardware (ACM SIGCOMM, 2022); LZR: Identifying Unexpected Internet Services (USENIX Security Symposium, 2021); SoK: Hate, Harassment, and the Changing Landscape of Online Abuse (incomplete list).
Research Experience
- Leads the Stanford Empirical Security Research Group; advises multiple students; teaches CS155 Computer and Network Security, CS356 Topics in Systems and Network Security, and CS249i The Modern Internet.
Background
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, with a focus on Internet security, trust, and safety. Interested in protecting people from attacks on the Internet, including cybercrime, harassment, censorship, and disinformation.
Miscellany
- Founded and is CEO of Censys; emphasizes creating open source tools and datasets to understand and protect the Internet, such as the ZMap Toolkit (including ZMap, ZGrab, ZDNS, ZLint, and LZR) and Retina; architected the Censys measurement platform, providing researchers with free global data on Internet devices and services; maintains ASdb and the downloadable CrUX Top Million Websites.
