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Gilad Asharov Senior Lecturer Department of Computer Science  Email:firstname.lastname@biu.ac.il |
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Brief Biography and Research Interest
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I am a senior lecturer (aka "assistant professor") at the department of Computer Science, and a member of the Bar-Ilan Center for Research in Applied Cryptography and Cyber Security. |
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Research Interest:
My research interest is in the field of cryptography. I focus on secure multiparty computation, ranging from its theoretical foundations to real-world applications. I am also interested in some other cryptographic primitives and their interplay (e.g., obfuscation, functional encryption, oblivious RAM, etc.).
Short Bio:
In 2019, I was a Research Lead (Vice-President) at the AI Research group at J.P. Morgan (NY). In 2017-2018, I was a Simons Foundation Junior fellow at Cornell Tech, NY, hosted by Prof. Rafael Pass. In 2016, I was a post-doctoral researcher at the Cryptography Group, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, and in 2015, I was a post-doctoral researcher in the The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, hosted by Prof. Gil Segev.
I finished my PhD in 2015, in Bar-Ilan university, where I was fortunate to have Prof. Yehuda Lindell as my advisor.
You can read about my research and the problems I deal with in the following interview.
Funding
My research is currently supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 (h2020) research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie individual-fellowship (MSCA-IF), grant agreement No. 891234 (PRIMAL).
Previously, in 2016-2018 I was a Simons Foundation Junior fellow, and in 2015 I was an I-CORE postdoc fellow.
I am looking for highly motivated and excellent graduate students (Ph.D., Masters and post-docs) that are interested in conducting research in Cryptography. For further details, please contact me by email.
Publications
You can find here links to my records at:
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Ph.D. Thesis
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Foundations of Secure Computation: Perfect Security and Fairness
Ph.D. Dissertation, Bar-Ilan University, 2015
[PDF, hebrew intro]
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Professional Activities
I co-organized the Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Workshop 2019, as an affiliated event of CRYPTO 2019.
I served as a program committee member in the following conferences:
- SCN 2020 - The 12th Conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks.
- CSCML 2020 - 4th International Symposium on Cyber Security Cryptology and Machine Learning.
- PKC 2020 - The IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography.
- TCC 2019 - Theory of Cryptography Conference.
- FCS 2019 - Foundations of Computer Security Workshop.
- TCC 2018 - Theory of Cryptography Conference.
- GenoPri'17 - The 4th International Workshop on ​Genome Privacy and Security.
- EUROCRYPT 2017 - The 36th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques.
- SCN 2016 - The 10th Conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks.
Videos
Some of my talks have been filmed and can be found online:
- Optimal Oblivious Parallel RAM, invited speaker at TPMPC 2020 - Theory and Practice of Multi-Party computation Workshop.
- OptORAMa: Optimal Oblivious RAM, as part of virtual Eurocrypt 2020, the online session can be found here.
- The 10th BIU Winter School on Cryptography: Information Theoretic Cryptography.
- Threshold Secret Sharing - an introduction to secret sharing.
- Verifiable Secret Sharing.
- Secure Computation: The BGW Protocol.
- Oblivious Computation with Data Locality, invited speaker at TPMPC 2018 - Theory and Practice of Multi-Party Computation, 2018
- Privacy-Preserving Search of Similar Patients in Genomic Data, as part of iDash Privacy & Security Workshop, November 2016, Chicago.
- On Construction One-Way Permutations from Indistinguishability Obfuscation (TCC 2016-A), Tel-Aviv, Israel, January, 2016.
- Limits On The Power Of Indistinguishability Obfuscation And Functional Encryption (FOCS 2015), Berkley, October 2015.
- Efficient Oblivious Transfer Extensions with Security for Malicious Adversaries, Bar-Ilan University's 5th Winter School: Advances in Practical Multiparty Computation, held at BIU in February, 2015.
- Towards Characterizing Complete Fairness in Secure Two-Party Computation (TCC 2014), UCSD, February 2014.
- Multiparty Computation with Low Communication, Computation and Interaction via Threshold FHE (EUROCRYPT 2012), University of Cambridge (UK), April 2012.
- Perfectly Secure Multiparty Computation for any t< n/3 (CRYPTO 2011), UCSB, August 2011.
Teaching
I am organizing the Cyber Center Colloquium this year. Please join our mailing list and contact me if you are interested in giving a talk.
Current:
Introduction to Cryptography (89-656)I used to be a teaching assistant in the following courses (given in the Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University):
Data Structures (89-120): 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010,
Complexity (89-320): 2013,
Introduction to Cryptography (89-656): 2010.
Contact Me
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