Rafail Ostrovsky#
| Membership Number: | 5140 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~rafail |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - Distinguished Professor, UCLA Computer Science Department, USA
- 2019 - Distinguished Professor, UCLA Department of Mathematics (by courtesy), USA
- 2003 - 2019 Full Professor, UCLA Computer Science Department, USA
- 2006 - 2019 Full Professor, UCLA Department of Mathematics (by courtesy), USA
- 2003 - present Director, Center for Information and Computation Security, UCLA, USA
- 1999 - 2003 Senior Research Scientist, Bell Communication Research, USA
- 1995 - 1999 Research Scientist, Bell Communication Research, USA
- 1992 - 1995 NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Algorithms
- Cryptography and computer security
- THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE
Honours and Awards
- Member of Academia Europaea (2019)
- 2018 RSA Conference Excellence in the field of mathematics award
- 2017 IEEE Fellow
- 2017 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award
- 2014 Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Research Award
- 2013 IACR Fellow
- 2012 Pazy Memorial Research Award
- 2008 Best Paper Award of International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics (COCOON-2008)
- 2006 and 2005 Xerox Corporate Innovation Faculty Awards
- 2006 IBM Faculty Award
- 2006 Xerox Corporation Distinguished Lecture Series
- 2005 Distinguished Cryptographer of the Year Lecture Series NTT Labs, Japan
- 2004 OKAWA Foundation Research Award
- 1999-2002: three SAIC Awards for the best published work of the year (1999, 2001, 2002) in computer science and mathematics
- 1996 Bellcore Prize for excellence in research
- 1993 Henry Taub Prize
