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Rafail Ostrovsky 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 Rafail Ostrovsky sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 422 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Rafail Ostrovsky 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 Rafail Ostrovsky sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 88 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% 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

  • 2022 - W. Wallace McDowell Award, IEEE Computer Society For visionary contributions to computer security theory and practice, including foreseeing new cloud vulnerabilities and then pioneering corresponding novel solutions.
  • 2019 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2017 - Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Computer Society For outstanding contributions to cryptographic protocols and systems, enhancing the scope of cryptographic applications and of assured cryptographic security
  • 2017 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to cryptography

Overview

Rafail Ostrovsky is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans primarily the field of Computer Science with a focus on several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Their main topics of work include:

  • Cryptography and Data Security
  • Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs
  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • Cryptographic Implementations and Security
  • Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
  • Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
  • Distributed systems and fault tolerance

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Ostrovsky are:

  • Improving Line-Point Zero Knowledge, 2022, Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
  • Line-Point Zero Knowledge and Its Applications, 2021, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • Succinct Non-Interactive Arguments via Linear Interactive Proofs, 2022, Journal of Cryptology
  • PSI from Ring-OLE, 2022, Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
  • Function Secret Sharing for PSI-CA:With Applications to Private Contact Tracing, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequently publishing venues for Ostrovsky include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • Lecture notes in computer science
  • Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
  • Journal of Cryptology

Frequent collaborators in their research are:

  • Yuval Ishai
  • Michele Ciampi
  • Vassilis Zikas
  • Brett Hemenway
  • Vipul Goyal

Ostrovsky has contributed to scholarly books, including a contribution published by Springer Science+Business Media titled Cyber Security, Cryptology, and Machine Learning (2022).

Awards received by Ostrovsky comprise:

  • W. Wallace McDowell Award, IEEE Computer Society (2022) for visionary contributions to computer security theory and practice, including foreseeing new cloud vulnerabilities and pioneering novel solutions
  • Member of Academia Europaea (2019)
  • IEEE Fellow (2017) for contributions to cryptography
  • Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Computer Society (2017) for outstanding contributions to cryptographic protocols and systems

Best Publications

  • Public Key Encryption with Keyword Search

    Dan Boneh;Giovanni Di Crescenzo;Rafail Ostrovsky;Giuseppe Persiano

  • Searchable symmetric encryption: Improved definitions and efficient constructions

    Reza Curtmola;Juan Garay;Seny Kamara;Rafail Ostrovsky

  • Software protection and simulation on oblivious RAMs

    Oded Goldreich;Rafail Ostrovsky

  • Fuzzy Extractors: How to Generate Strong Keys from Biometrics and Other Noisy Data

    Yevgeniy Dodis;Rafail Ostrovsky;Leonid Reyzin;Adam Smith

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

    Rafail Ostrovsky;Amit Sahai;Brent Waters

  • Efficient Search for Approximate Nearest Neighbor in High Dimensional Spaces

    Eyal Kushilevitz;Rafail Ostrovsky;Yuval Rabani

  • Replication is not needed: single database, computationally-private information retrieval

    E. Kushilevitz;R. Ostrovsky

  • The effectiveness of lloyd-type methods for the k-means problem

    Rafail Ostrovsky;Yuval Rabani;Leonard J. Schulman;Chaitanya Swamy

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

    Ran Canetti;Yehuda Lindell;Rafail Ostrovsky;Amit Sahai

  • How to withstand mobile virus attacks (extended abstract)

    Rafail Ostrovsky;Moti Yung

  • Efficient Password-Authenticated Key Exchange Using Human-Memorable Passwords

    Jonathan Katz;Rafail Ostrovsky;Moti Yung

  • Deniable Encryption

    Ran Canetti;Cynthia Dwork;Moni Naor;Rafail Ostrovsky

  • Zero-knowledge from secure multiparty computation

    Yuval Ishai;Eyal Kushilevitz;Rafail Ostrovsky;Amit Sahai

  • Sequential Aggregate Signatures and Multisignatures without Random Oracles.

    Steve Lu;Rafail Ostrovsky;Amit Sahai;Hovav Shacham

  • Perfect non-interactive zero knowledge for NP

    Jens Groth;Rafail Ostrovsky;Amit Sahai

  • Robust Non-interactive Zero Knowledge

    Alfredo De Santis;Giovanni Di Crescenzo;Rafail Ostrovsky;Giuseppe Persiano

  • Succinct non-interactive arguments via linear interactive proofs

    Nir Bitansky;Alessandro Chiesa;Yuval Ishai;Omer Paneth

  • A survey of single-database private information retrieval: techniques and applications

    Rafail Ostrovsky;Iii. William E. Skeith

  • Public key encryption that allows PIR queries

    Dan Boneh;Eyal Kushilevitz;Rafail Ostrovsky;Iii. William E. Skeith

  • Efficient computation on oblivious RAMs

    R. Ostrovsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Amit Sahai
Amit Sahai University of California, Los Angeles
Eyal Kushilevitz
Eyal Kushilevitz Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Yuval Ishai
Yuval Ishai Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Juan A. Garay
Juan A. Garay Texas A&M University
Yuval Rabani
Yuval Rabani Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Vipul Goyal
Vipul Goyal Carnegie Mellon University
Sanjam Garg
Sanjam Garg University of California, Berkeley
Jonathan Katz
Jonathan Katz University of Maryland, College Park
Giuseppe Persiano
Giuseppe Persiano University of Salerno
Adam Smith
Adam Smith Boston University

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