Rafail Ostrovsky

DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
COMPUTER SCIENCE

Professor of Mathematics

Engineering VI - Room 475

Email: rafail@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 206-5283
Fax: (310) 794-5057

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Rafail Ostrovsky

Rafail Ostrovsky is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at UCLA; Fellow of IEEE; Fellow of IACR; and a foreign member of Academia Europaea, with over 300 refereed publications and 14 issued USPTO patents. He served as chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing from 2015 to 2018 and served as a Chair of FOCS 2011 Program Committee (PC). He also served on over 40 other international conference PC's and is currently serving on the editorial board of Journal of ACM, Algorithmica Journal, and Journal of Cryptology. He is the recipient of multiple awards and honors including 1993 Henry Taub Prize; the 2017 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award and the 2018 RSA Excellence in the Field of Mathematics Award.

RESEARCH AND INTERESTS

Theory of computation
Cryptography and security
Distributed algorithms
High-dimensional search
Routing and flow control in communication networks
Cybersecurity and future internet

NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS

Google Scholars

EDUCATION

PhD (1992) MIT

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

Norman E. Friedmann Chair, 2022
Cisco Faculty Research Award, 2022
Eurocrypt Best Paper Award, 2022
IEEE Computer Society Wallace McDowell Award, 2022
AAAS Fellow, 2021
ACM Fellow, 2021
J.P. Morgan AI Research Award, 2021
NASE Committee Appointment: Future of Encryption, 2020
Google Faculty Award, 2020
J.P. Morgan Chase Faculty Award, 2020
J.P. Morgan Chase Faculty Award, 2019
Foreign Member of Academia Europaea, 2019
RSA Excellence in the Field of Mathematics Award, 2018
IEEE CS Technical Achievement Award, 2017
IEEE Fellow, 2017
IACR Fellow, 2013
Quantum Information Processing (QIP) 2011: 2011 Plenary talk
Best Paper (COCOON), 2008
Lockheed-Martin Corporation Research Award, 2008
Xerox Corporation Faculty Award, 2006
IBM Faculty Award, 2006
Teradata Faculty Award, 2005
Xerox Corporation Faculty Award, 2005
OKAWA Foundation Research Award, 2004

COURSES

CS282A/M209A Foundatoions of Cryptography;
CS282B/M209B Cryptographic Protocols;
CS289A Current Topics in Computer Science Theory;
CS289A Seminar on Probabilistically Checkable Proofs;
CS 289A Seminar on Byzantine Agreement;
CS180 Introduction to Algorithms and Complexity;