2026 Silvio Micali: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	89	628	610	333	323	214	64797

Research.com Recognitions

2017 - ACM Fellow For transformative work that laid the complexity-theoretic foundations for the science of cryptography
2012 - A. M. Turing Award Along with Shafi Goldwasser, for transformative work that laid the complexity-theoretic foundations for the science of cryptography, and in the process pioneered new methods for efficient verification of mathematical proofs in complexity theory.
2007 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to modern cryptography, through the development of zero-knowledge protocols and the theory of pseudo-randomness.
2007 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2003 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Silvio Micali is affiliated with MIT in the United States. Their recent research contributions include publications in fields related to medical robotics and blockchain technology.

Best Publications

How to Play any Mental Game or A Completeness Theorem for Protocols with Honest Majority

Oded Goldreich;Silvio Micali;Avi Wigderson

8520
Citations
The knowledge complexity of interactive proof systems

S. Goldwasser;S. Micali;C. Rackoff

6252
Citations
How to play ANY mental game

O. Goldreich;S. Micali;A. Wigderson

5011
Citations
A digital signature scheme secure against adaptive chosen-message attacks

Shafi Goldwasser;Silvio Micali;Ronald L. Rivest

3770
Citations
Probabilistic Encryption

Unknown

3464
Citations
How to construct random functions

Oded Goldreich;Shafi Goldwasser;Silvio Micali

2847
Citations
How to generate cryptographically strong sequences of pseudo-random bits

Manuel Blum;Silvio Micali

2282
Citations
Proofs that yield nothing but their validity or all languages in NP have zero-knowledge proof systems

Oded Goldreich;Silvio Micali;Avi Wigderson

2062
Citations
Algorand: Scaling Byzantine Agreements for Cryptocurrencies.

Yossi Gilad;Rotem Hemo;Silvio Micali;Georgios Vlachos

1721
Citations
An O(v|v| c |E|) algoithm for finding maximum matching in general graphs

Silvio Micali;Vijay V. Vazirani

1343
Citations
Verifiable secret sharing and achieving simultaneity in the presence of faults

Benny Chor;Shafi Goldwasser;Silvio Micali;Baruch Awerbuch

1326
Citations
Probabilistic encryption & how to play mental poker keeping secret all partial information

Shafi Goldwasser;Silvio Micali

1272
Citations
Non-interactive zero-knowledge and its applications

Manuel Blum;Paul Feldman;Silvio Micali

1224
Citations
The round complexity of secure protocols

D. Beaver;S. Micali;P. Rogaway

1009
Citations
Verifiable random functions

S. Micali;M. Rabin;S. Vadhan

869
Citations
Computationally private information retrieval with polylogarithmic communication

Christian Cachin;Silvio Micali;Markus Stadler

832
Citations
On-line/off-line digital signatures

Shimon Even;Oded Goldreich;Silvio Micali

799
Citations
Proofs that yield nothing but their validity and a methodology of cryptographic protocol design

Oded Goldreich;Silvio Micali;Avi Wigderson

788
Citations
Simultaneous electronic transactions with visible trusted parties

Silvio Micali

762
Citations
Public-key encryption in a multi-user setting: security proofs and improvements

Mihir Bellare;Alexandra Boldyreva;Silvio Micali

636
Citations
Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge and Its Applications (Extended Abstract)

Manuel Blum;Paul Feldman;Silvio Micali

364
Citations
Verifiable Secret Sharing and Achieving Simultaneity in the Presence of Faults (Extended Abstract)

Benny Chor;Shafi Goldwasser;Silvio Micali;Baruch Awerbuch

179
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Shafi Goldwasser University of California, Berkeley

Oded Goldreich Weizmann Institute of Science

Ronald L. Rivest MIT

Leonid Reyzin Boston University

Zeyuan Allen-Zhu Meta Platforms, Inc.

Avi Wigderson Institute for Advanced Study

Alessandro Chiesa École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Manuel Blum Carnegie Mellon University

Mihir Bellare University of California, San Diego

Rafail Ostrovsky University of California, Los Angeles

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