Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program leaderboard! Thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers.

The top three researchers of the 2022 Q3 Security Researcher Leaderboard are: Zhiyi Zhang , Yuki Chen , and Dang The Tuyen! Check out the full list of researchers recognized this quarter here.

Congratulations to the top Azure researchers this quarter: Zhiyi Zhang, Dang The Tuyen, and HP!

Congratulations to the top Office researchers this quarter: Rocco Calvi (@TecR0c), Anonymous, and 40826d!

Congratulations to the top Windows researchers this quarter: Yuki Chen, Haifei Li, and k0shl!

This 2022 Q3 leaderboard reflects point values for cases that are:

• Submitted and assessed by the MSRC team between July 1, 2022, and September 30, 2022
• Submitted between April 1, 2022, and June 30, 2022 (last program period), but assessed after July 1, 2022

Past MSRC Quarterly Leaderboards:

• 2022-07: MSRC 2022 Q2 Security Researcher Leaderboard
• 2022-04: MSRC 2022 Q1 Security Researcher Leaderboard
• 2022-02: MSRC 2021 Q4 Security Researcher Leaderboard
• 2021-10: MSRC 2021 Q3 Security Researcher Leaderboard

Keep up the awesome work and we look forward to seeing you next quarter!

Lynn Miyashita, MSRC