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 2023 Q4 Security Researcher Leaderboard are Yuki Chen, Wei, VictorV!

Check out the full list of researchers recognized this quarter here.

Congratulations to the top Azure researchers this quarter: Yuki Chen, Wei, and VictorV!

Congratulations to the top Office researchers this quarter: Anonymous, The Slyfer, Anonymous working with Trend Micro!

Congratulations to the top Windows researchers this quarter: Yuki Chen, Azure Yang, Anonymous!

This 2023 Q4 leaderboard reflects point values for cases that are:

• Submitted and assessed by the MSRC team between October 1, 2023, and December 31, 2023
• Submitted and assessed by the MSRC team between July 1, 2023, and September 30, 2023 (last program period), but assessed after October 1, 2023

Past quarterly and annual leaderboard announcements:

• MSRC 2023 Q3 Security Researcher Leaderboard
• MSRC 2023 Q2 Security Researcher Leaderboard
• MSRC 2023 Q1 Security Researcher Leaderboard
• MSRC 2023 Most Valuable Security Researcher Leaderboard

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

Madeline Eckert, MSRC