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Rafail Ostrovsky

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Rafail Ostrovsky
Born1963 (age 60–61)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMIT
Scientific career
FieldsAlgorithms and cryptography
InstitutionsUCLA
ThesisSoftware Protection and Simulation on Oblivious RAMs (1992)
Doctoral advisorSilvio Micali
Doctoral students
Websitewww.cs.ucla.edu/~rafail/

Rafail Ostrovsky is a distinguished professor of computer science and mathematics at UCLA and a well-known researcher in algorithms and cryptography.

Biography

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Rafail Ostrovsky received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1992.

He is a member of the editorial board of Algorithmica [1], Editorial Board of Journal of Cryptology [2] and Editorial and Advisory Board of the International Journal of Information and Computer Security [3].

Awards

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  • 2022 W. Wallace McDowell Award[1] "for visionary contributions to computer security theory and practice, including foreseeing new cloud vulnerabilities and then pioneering corresponding novel solutions"
  • 2021 AAAS Fellow[2]
  • 2021 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery[3] "for contributions to the foundations of cryptography"
  • 2019 Academia Europaea Foreign Member [4]
  • 2018 RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics "for contributions to the theory and to new variants of secure multi-party computations"
  • 2017 IEEE Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award [5] "for outstanding contributions to cryptographic protocols and systems, enhancing the scope of cryptographic applications and of assured cryptographic security."
  • 2017 IEEE Fellow,[6] "for contributions to cryptography”
  • 2013 IACR Fellow "for numerous contributions to the scientific foundations of cryptography and for sustained educational leadership in cryptography" [7]
  • 1993 Henry Taub Prize

Publications

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Some of Ostrovsky's contributions to computer science include:

References

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  1. ^ W. Wallace McDowell Award, IEEE
  2. ^ 2021 AAAS FELLOWS APPROVED BY THE AAAS COUNCIL, aaas.org
  3. ^ ACM Names 71 Fellows for Computing Advances that are Driving Innovation, ACM, January 19, 2022
  4. ^ The Academy of Europe
  5. ^ IEEE Technical Achievement Award, IEEE
  6. ^ IEEE Fellows Directory, IEEE
  7. ^ IACR Fellows, IACR
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