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Amit Sahai publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Amit Sahai sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 286 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Amit Sahai D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Amit Sahai sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 91 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - ACM Fellow For contributions to cryptography and to the development of indistinguishability obfuscation
  • 2002 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Amit Sahai is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their primary research focuses on computer science, with particular emphasis on artificial intelligence and computational theory and mathematics.

The scientist's publications predominantly appear in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), SIAM Journal on Computing, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl), Communications of the ACM, and The Computer Journal. These venues collectively reflect a consistent engagement with both theoretical and applied aspects of computing and cryptography.

Their main fields of study include computer science and subfields like artificial intelligence, computational theory and mathematics, computer vision and pattern recognition, electrical and electronic engineering, and information systems.

Key research topics covered by their work are:

  • Cryptography and Data Security
  • Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs
  • Cryptographic Implementations and Security
  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • Coding theory and cryptography
  • Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
  • Wireless Communication Security Techniques

Frequent coauthors of Amit Sahai include:

  • Aayush Jain
  • Yuval Ishai
  • Paul Lou
  • Alexis Korb
  • Huijia Lin

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Amit Sahai include:

  • How to Use Indistinguishability Obfuscation: Deniable Encryption, and More (2021) published in SIAM Journal on Computing

Other relevant papers connected to this research area but authored by collaborators include:

  • Affine Determinant Programs: A Framework for Obfuscation and Witness Encryption (2020), Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Well-Founded Assumptions (2020), arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Well-Founded Assumptions (2024), Communications of the ACM
  • Relinearization Attack On LPN Over Large Fields (2023), The Computer Journal

Amit Sahai has been recognized through awards such as:

  • ACM Fellow (2018) for contributions to cryptography and to the development of indistinguishability obfuscation
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2002)

Best Publications

  • Attribute-Based Encryption for Fine-Grained Access Control of Encrypted Data.

    Vipul Goyal;Omkant Pandey;Amit Sahai;Brent Waters

  • Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption

    J. Bethencourt;A. Sahai;B. Waters

  • Fuzzy identity-based encryption

    Amit Sahai;Brent Waters

  • On the (im)possibility of obfuscating programs

    Boaz Barak;Oded Goldreich;Russell Impagliazzo;Steven Rudich

  • Homomorphic Encryption from Learning with Errors: Conceptually-Simpler, Asymptotically-Faster, Attribute-Based.

    Craig Gentry;Amit Sahai;Brent Waters

  • Fully secure functional encryption: attribute-based encryption and (hierarchical) inner product encryption

    Allison Lewko;Tatsuaki Okamoto;Amit Sahai;Katsuyuki Takashima

  • Attribute-Based Encryption with Non-Monotonic Access Structures.

    Rafail Ostrovsky;Amit Sahai;Brent Waters

  • Candidate Indistinguishability Obfuscation and Functional Encryption for all Circuits

    Sanjam Garg;Craig Gentry;Shai Halevi;Mariana Raykova

  • Predicate encryption supporting disjunctions, polynomial equations, and inner products

    Jonathan Katz;Amit Sahai;Brent Waters

  • Functional encryption: definitions and challenges

    Dan Boneh;Amit Sahai;Brent Waters

  • Private circuits: Securing Hardware against probing attacks

    Yuval Ishai;Amit Sahai;David Wagner

  • Efficient non-interactive proof systems for bilinear groups

    Jens Groth;Amit Sahai

  • Universally composable two-party and multi-party secure computation

    Ran Canetti;Yehuda Lindell;Rafail Ostrovsky;Amit Sahai

  • Bounded Ciphertext Policy Attribute Based Encryption

    Vipul Goyal;Abhishek Jain;Omkant Pandey;Amit Sahai

  • How to Use Indistinguishability Obfuscation: Deniable Encryption, and More

    Amit Sahai;Brent Waters

  • Fast Cryptographic Primitives and Circular-Secure Encryption Based on Hard Learning Problems

    Benny Applebaum;David Cash;Chris Peikert;Amit Sahai

  • Pseudonym Systems

    Anna Lysyanskaya;Ronald L. Rivest;Amit Sahai;Stefan Wolf

  • Concurrent zero-knowledge

    Cynthia Dwork;Moni Naor;Amit Sahai

  • Non-malleable non-interactive zero knowledge and adaptive chosen-ciphertext security

    A. Sahai

  • Concurrent zero-knowledge

    Cynthia Dwork;Moni Naor;Amit Sahai

Frequent Co-Authors

Brent Waters
Brent Waters The University of Texas at Austin
Yuval Ishai
Yuval Ishai Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Vipul Goyal
Vipul Goyal Carnegie Mellon University
Manoj Prabhakaran
Manoj Prabhakaran Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Rafail Ostrovsky
Rafail Ostrovsky University of California, Los Angeles
Abhishek Jain
Abhishek Jain Johns Hopkins University
Sanjam Garg
Sanjam Garg University of California, Berkeley
Salil P. Vadhan
Salil P. Vadhan Harvard University
Craig Gentry
Craig Gentry TripleBlind
Shai Halevi
Shai Halevi Amazon (United States)

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