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D-Index
57
Citations
11023
World Ranking
3888
National Ranking
1839

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Rafael Pass is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and specializes in computer science, with a primary focus on artificial intelligence and computational theory. Their research contributions span numerous subfields including computer networks, economics and econometrics, and information systems. The scientist's work broadly addresses topics such as cryptography and data security, complexity and algorithms in graphs, cryptographic implementations and security, computability and logic related to AI algorithms, distributed systems and fault tolerance, privacy-preserving technologies in data, and blockchain technology applications and security.

Rafael Pass has published extensively, with 95 works categorized under computer science. Their recent papers include:

  • "Incrementally Verifiable Computation via Rate-1 Batch Arguments," 2022, published in the 2022 IEEE 63rd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS)
  • "Communication complexity of byzantine agreement, revisited," 2022, published in Distributed Computing
  • "I'm Doing as Well as I Can: Modeling People as Rational Finite Automata," 2021, published in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • "On One-Way Functions from NP-Complete Problems," 2022, published by Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • "Sequential Equilibrium in Games of Imperfect Recall," 2021, published in ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including Cody Freitag, Ilan Komargodski, Wenbo Liu, Elaine Shi, and T-H. Hubert Chan. These collaborations reflect recurring partnerships that contribute to fields such as cryptography and computational theory.

Key publication venues where Rafael Pass has presented work include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SIAM Journal on Computing
  • Journal of Cryptology
  • ACM SIGACT News
  • 2022 IEEE 63rd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS)

In addition to articles, Rafael Pass has contributed to scholarly books. One such publication is "Theory of Cryptography," published in 2020 by Springer Science+Business Media.

The scientist was recognized in 2011 as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Best Publications

  • Analysis of the Blockchain Protocol in Asynchronous Networks

    Rafael Pass;Lior Seeman;Abhi Shelat

  • Universally composable security with global setup

    Ran Canetti;Yevgeniy Dodis;Rafael Pass;Shabsi Walfish

  • FruitChains: A Fair Blockchain

    Rafael Pass;Elaine Shi

  • Hybrid Consensus: Efficient Consensus in the Permissionless Model

    Rafael Pass;Elaine Shi

  • Thunderella: Blockchains with Optimistic Instant Confirmation

    Rafael Pass;Elaine Shi

  • Universally composable protocols with relaxed set-up assumptions

    B. Barak;R. Canetti;J.B. Nielsen;R. Pass

  • On Deniability in the Common Reference String and Random Oracle Model

    Rafael Pass

  • Snow White: Robustly Reconfigurable Consensus and Applications to Provably Secure Proof of Stake

    Phil Daian;Rafael Pass;Elaine Shi

  • New and improved constructions of non-malleable cryptographic protocols

    Rafael Pass;Alon Rosen

  • Simulation in quasi-polynomial time, and its application to protocol composition

    Rafael Pass

  • On Extractability Obfuscation

    Elette Boyle;Kai-Min Chung;Rafael Pass

  • Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Semantically-Secure Multilinear Encodings

    Rafael Pass;Karn Seth;Sidharth Telang

  • The Sleepy Model of Consensus

    Rafael Pass;Elaine Shi

  • Snow White: Provably Secure Proofs of Stake.

    Iddo Bentov;Rafael Pass;Elaine Shi

  • Bounded-concurrent secure multi-party computation with a dishonest majority

    Rafael Pass

  • New and Improved Constructions of Nonmalleable Cryptographic Protocols

    Rafael Pass;Alon Rosen

  • Concurrent non-malleable commitments

    R. Pass;A. Rosen

  • Succinct Randomized Encodings and their Applications

    Nir Bitansky;Sanjam Garg;Huijia Lin;Rafael Pass

  • Towards privacy for social networks: a zero-knowledge based definition of privacy

    Johannes Gehrke;Edward Lui;Rafael Pass

  • Concurrent Nonmalleable Commitments

    Rafael Pass;Alon Rosen

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph Y. Halpern
Joseph Y. Halpern Cornell University
Elaine Shi
Elaine Shi Carnegie Mellon University
Abhi Shelat
Abhi Shelat Northeastern University
Elette Boyle
Elette Boyle Reichman University
Ran Canetti
Ran Canetti Boston University
Alon Rosen
Alon Rosen Bocconi University
Boaz Barak
Boaz Barak Harvard University
Yuval Ishai
Yuval Ishai Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

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