Microsoft’s Top 100 Security Researchers – Black Hat 2018 Edition

This morning we are excited to unveil the security researcher leaderboard at the Black Hat Security Conference. This list recognizes the top security researchers who have contributed research to the Microsoft products and services. If you are curious on how we build the list, check out our blog from last week on The Making of the Top 100 Researcher List.

We appreciate all the work and partnerships with the security community over the years. This is a good annual reflection point on the past year’s contributions. Keep up the great work and we look forward to hearing from you this year too.

Microsoft’s Top 100 Security Researcher List

Ranking

Researcher Name

1

Ashar Javed

2

Junghoon Lee

3

Yuki Chen

4

Cameron Vincent

5

Richard Shupak

6

Suresh Chelladurai

7

MaoFeng Ran

8

Mateusz Jurczyk

9

Ivan Fratric

10

Gal De Leon

11

Jaanus Kääp

12

James Forshaw

13

Kai Song

13

Hui Gao

15

Hossein Lotfi

16

Ajay Kulal

17

Yeivin Nadav

18

Fan Xiaocao

19

Liu Long

20

Zhang Yunhai

21

Dmitri Kaslov

22

Marcin Towalski

23

Qixun Zhao

24

Wayne Low

25

Huang Anwen

26

Dhanesh Kizhakkinan

27

Peter Hlavaty

28

Simon Zuckerbraun

29

Xiao Wei

30

Yassine Nafiai

31

Alex Ionescu

32

WenQunWang

32

Debasish Mandal

34

Ismail Talib

35

Cem Karagun

36

Adrian Ivascu

36

Ahmed Jerbi

38

Kdot

39

Zhong Zhaochen

40

Hung Huynh

40

Rancho Han

42

Jens Müller

43

Linan Hao

43

Lucas Leong

43

Ying Xinlei

43

J00Sean

47

Hamza Bettache

48

Aradnok

48

Zhou Yu

50

Mohamed Hamed

51

Vikash Chaudhary

52

Alec Blance

53

Zhenhuan Li

54

Xiong Wenbin

54

Richard Zhu

56

Minh Tran

57

Frans Rosen

57

Steven Seeley

59

Mario Gomes

60

Matt Nelson

61

Zhang Sen

62

Scott Bell

62

Honggang Ren

62

Ke Liu

63

Nethaniel Gelernter

63

Vladislav Stolyarov

67

Ivan Vagunin

67

Mustafa Hasan

69

SaifAllah benMassaoud

70

Adesh Nandkishor Kolte

70

Roman Blachman

70

Omair

73

Tao Yan

73

Giwan Go

73

Nick Freeman

76

Amal Mohandas

77

Lucas Moreira Giungi

78

Marcin Wiazowski

79

Adam Bauer

79

Oleksandr Mirosh

79

Yangkang

79

Wanglu

79

Yong Chuan Koh

79

Jin Chen

79

Rgod

79

Ding Maoyin

79

Song Shenlei

88

Jovon Itwaru

88

Hungtt28

90

Abdulrahman Alqabandi

90

Christian Holler

92

Arif Isik

92

Manish Kumar Gupta

92

Kévin Chalet

92

Liang Yin

96

Ahmed Radi

97

Guangmingliu

97

Amir Shaahin

97

Omair Ahmed

97

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Phillip Misner,

Principal Security Group Manager

Microsoft Security Response Center