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Overview

Yehuda Afek is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel, specializing primarily in computer science. Their research spans various subfields including artificial intelligence, computer networks and communications, computational theory and mathematics, signal processing, and molecular biology. The breadth of topics covered positions their work at the intersection of theory and practical applications within computing.

The main topics Yehuda Afek focuses on include:

  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques
  • Network Security and Intrusion Detection
  • Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
  • Cryptography and Data Security
  • Distributed systems and fault tolerance
  • Age of Information Optimization

Notable recent publications include:

  • "Distributed computing with the cloud," 2024, Distributed Computing
  • "NXNSAttack: Recursive DNS Inefficiencies and Vulnerabilities," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Holdout SGD: Byzantine Tolerant Federated Learning," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Consensus in Equilibrium: Can One Against All Decide Fairly?" 2020, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • "Distributed Computing With the Cloud," 2022, Research Square (Research Square)

Yehuda Afek frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Gal Giladi
  • Boaz Patt-Shamir
  • Anat Bremler-Barr
  • Moshe Sulamy
  • Dor Israeli

Their works appear most often in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Distributed Computing, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl), Research Square, and Cryptography and Communications, reflecting both formal conference and informal preprint distributions of findings.

This profile reflects a research portfolio oriented around computer science challenges related to security, distributed systems, optimization techniques, and data privacy. Yehuda Afek's contributions cover both theoretical models and applied technologies relevant to modern computing environments.

Best Publications

  • Atomic snapshots of shared memory

    Yehuda Afek;Hagit Attiya;Danny Dolev;Eli Gafni

  • Methods and apparatus for protecting against overload conditions on nodes of a distributed network

    Yehuda Afek;Anat Bremler-Barr;Dan Touitou

  • Memory-efficient self stabilizing protocols for general networks

    Yehuda Afek;Shay Kutten;Moti Yung

  • Protecting against spoofed DNS messages

    Guy Pazi;Dan Touitou;Alon Golan;Yehuda Afek

  • A Dynamic Convolutional Layer for short rangeweather prediction

    Benjamin Klein;Lior Wolf;Yehuda Afek

  • A Biological Solution to a Fundamental Distributed Computing Problem

    Yehuda Afek;Noga Alon;Noga Alon;Omer Barad;Eran Hornstein

  • Fast concurrent queues for x86 processors

    Adam Morrison;Yehuda Afek

  • Applying static network protocols to dynamic networks

    Yehuda Afek;Baruch Awerbuch;Eli Gafni

  • Lazy caching

    Yehuda Afek;Geoffrey Brown;Michael Merritt

  • Wait-free made fast

    Yehuda Afek;Dalia Dauber;Dan Touitou

  • Improved BGP convergence via ghost flushing

    A. Bremler-Barr;Y. Afek;S. Schwarz

  • Local Stabilizer

    Yehuda Afek;Shlomi Dolev

  • The local detection paradigm and its applications to self-stabilization

    Yehuda Afek;Shay Kutten;Moti Yung

  • Self-stabilizing unidirectional network algorithms by power-supply

    Yehuda Afek;Anat Bremler

  • Atomic snapshots of shared memory

    Yehuda Afek;Danny Dolev;Hagit Attiya;Eli Gafni

  • Self-stabilization over unreliable communication media

    Yehuda Afek;Geoffrey M. Brown

  • quasi-linearizability: relaxed consistency for improved concurrency

    Yehuda Afek;Guy Korland;Eitan Yanovsky

  • Protecting against malicious traffic

    Yehuda Afek;Rafi Zadikario;Dan Touitou;Barr Anat Bremler

  • Reliable communication over unreliable channels

    Yehuda Afek;Hagit Attiya;Alan Fekete;Michael Fischer

  • Long-lived adaptive collect with applications

    Y. Afek;G. Stupp;D. Touitou

  • Beeping a maximal independent set

    Yehuda Afek;Noga Mordechai Alon;Ziv Bar-Joseph;Alejandro Cornejo

Frequent Co-Authors

Eli Gafni
Eli Gafni University of California, Los Angeles
Michael Merritt
Michael Merritt AT&T (United States)
Yishay Mansour
Yishay Mansour Tel Aviv University
Noga Alon
Noga Alon Tel Aviv University
Haim Kaplan
Haim Kaplan Tel Aviv University
Ziv Bar-Joseph
Ziv Bar-Joseph Carnegie Mellon University
Baruch Awerbuch
Baruch Awerbuch Johns Hopkins University
Hagit Attiya
Hagit Attiya Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Shlomi Dolev
Shlomi Dolev Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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