Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s [Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/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 Q2 Security Researcher Leaderboard are Yuki Chen, Lewis Lee & Ver & Zhiniang Peng, and Wei!

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

Congratulations to the top Azure researchers this quarter: Yuki Chen, Nitesh Surana (@_niteshsurana) working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative, and Sathish!

Congratulations to the top Office researchers this quarter: zcgonvh, Harun Can, and Brad Schlintz!

Congratulations to the top Windows researchers this quarter: Lewis Lee & Ver & Zhiniang Peng, Wei, and wkai!

This 2024 Q2 leaderboard reflects point values for cases that are:

• Submitted and assessed by the MSRC team between April 1, 2024, and June 30, 2024

• Submitted and assessed by the MSRC team between January 1, 2024, and March 31, 202 (last program period), but assessed after April 1, 2024

Past quarterly and annual leaderboard announcements:  

• MSRC 2024 Q1 Security Researcher Leaderboard

• 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