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 nyaacate

 

Phillip Misner,

Principal Security Group Manager

Microsoft Security Response Center