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 2024 Q1 Security Researcher Leaderboard are Yuki Chen, VictorV, and Nitesh Surana!

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

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

Congratulations to the top Office researchers this quarter: Quan Jin, Anonymous, and Anonymous!

Congratulations to the top Windows researchers this quarter: B1aN, wkai, and k0shl!

This 2024 Q1 leaderboard reflects point values for cases that are:

• Submitted and assessed by the MSRC team between January 1, 2024, and March 31, 2024

• Submitted and assessed by the MSRC team between October 1, 2023, and January 31, 2023 (last program period), but assessed after January 1, 2024

Past quarterly and annual leaderboard announcements:  

• MSRC 2023 Q4 Security Researcher Leaderboard

• 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