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Nickolai Zeldovich

Nickolai Zeldovich

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Computer Science

D-Index
58
Citations
16201
World Ranking
3578
National Ranking
1719

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Nickolai Zeldovich is affiliated with MIT in the United States and works primarily in the field of computer science. Their research spans various subfields including artificial intelligence, computer networks and communications, and signal processing.

Their main areas of focus include security and verification in computing, distributed systems and fault tolerance, and advanced malware detection techniques.

Nickolai Zeldovich has contributed to the following recent papers:

  • "Notary," published in 2020 in GetMobile Mobile Computing and Communications
  • "Shipwright: Proving liveness of distributed systems with Byzantine participants," published in 2025 on arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors:

  • Anish Athalye
  • Adam Belay
  • M. Frans Kaashoek
  • Robert Morris
  • Frans Kaashoek

Nickolai Zeldovich's publications have appeared regularly in venues such as GetMobile Mobile Computing and Communications and arXiv (Cornell University).

In recognition of their work, they were named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2010.

Best Publications

  • CryptDB: protecting confidentiality with encrypted query processing

    Raluca Ada Popa;Catherine M. S. Redfield;Nickolai Zeldovich;Hari Balakrishnan

  • Algorand: Scaling Byzantine Agreements for Cryptocurrencies.

    Yossi Gilad;Rotem Hemo;Silvio Micali;Georgios Vlachos

  • Making information flow explicit in HiStar

    Nickolai Zeldovich;Silas Boyd-Wickizer;Eddie Kohler;David Mazières

  • Making information flow explicit in HiStar

    Nickolai Zeldovich;Silas Boyd-Wickizer;Eddie Kohler;David Mazières

  • Reusable garbled circuits and succinct functional encryption

    Shafi Goldwasser;Yael Kalai;Raluca Ada Popa;Vinod Vaikuntanathan

  • An analysis of Linux scalability to many cores

    Silas Boyd-Wickizer;Austin T. Clements;Yandong Mao;Aleksey Pesterev

  • Relational Cloud: A Database-as-a-Service for the Cloud

    Carlo Curino;Evan Philip Charles Jones;Raluca Ada Popa;Nirmesh Malviya

  • Processing analytical queries over encrypted data

    Stephen Tu;M. Frans Kaashoek;Samuel Madden;Nickolai Zeldovich

  • An Ideal-Security Protocol for Order-Preserving Encoding.

    Raluca A. Popa;Frank H. Li;Nickolai Zeldovich

  • Securing distributed systems with information flow control

    Nickolai Zeldovich;Silas Boyd-Wickizer;David Mazières

  • Vuvuzela: scalable private messaging resistant to traffic analysis

    Jelle van den Hooff;David Lazar;Matei Zaharia;Nickolai Zeldovich

  • Using Crash Hoare logic for certifying the FSCQ file system

    Haogang Chen;Daniel Ziegler;Tej Chajed;Adam Chlipala

  • Virtual Appliances for Deploying and Maintaining Software

    Constantine Sapuntzakis;David Brumley;Ramesh Chandra;Nickolai Zeldovich

  • Relational Cloud: a Database Service for the cloud.

    Carlo Curino;Evan P. C. Jones;Raluca A. Popa;Nirmesh Malviya

  • Virtual Appliance Management

    Monica Sin-Ling Lam;Constantine Paul Sapuntzakis;Ramesh U. V. Chandra;Nickolai Borisovich Zeldovich

  • How to Run Turing Machines on Encrypted Data

    Shafi Goldwasser;Yael Tauman Kalai;Raluca Ada Popa;Vinod Vaikuntanathan

  • Improving application security with data flow assertions

    Alexander Yip;Xi Wang;Nickolai Zeldovich;M. Frans Kaashoek

  • CryptDB: processing queries on an encrypted database

    Raluca Ada Popa;Catherine M. S. Redfield;Nickolai Zeldovich;Hari Balakrishnan

  • The collective: a cache-based system management architecture

    Ramesh Chandra;Nickolai Zeldovich;Constantine Sapuntzakis;Monica S. Lam

  • The Scalable Commutativity Rule: Designing Scalable Software for Multicore Processors

    Austin T. Clements;M. Frans Kaashoek;Nickolai Zeldovich;Robert T. Morris

Frequent Co-Authors

Raluca Ada Popa
Raluca Ada Popa University of California, Berkeley
David Mazières
David Mazières Stanford University
Taesoo Kim
Taesoo Kim Georgia Institute of Technology
Eddie Kohler
Eddie Kohler Harvard University
Shafi Goldwasser
Shafi Goldwasser University of California, Berkeley
Philip Levis
Philip Levis Stanford University

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