Primary research interests:
Foundations of Computer Security and Cryptography.
Among my interests: Cryptographic Proofs and Secure Multiparty Computation;
Software Security and Protection.
I'm also interested in many other aspects of
computer science. See Research below.
Brief Bio:
Professor Amit Sahai received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT in
2000. From 2000 to 2004, he was a professor at Princeton University; in
2004 he joined UCLA as an Associate Professor of Computer Science, and as
Associate Director of the Center for Information and Computation Security.
His research interests are in security and cryptography, and theoretical
computer science more broadly. He has published more than 60 original
technical research papers at venues such as the ACM Symposium on Theory of
Computing (STOC), CRYPTO, and the Journal of the ACM. He has given a
number of invited talks at institutions such as MIT, Stanford, and
Berkeley, including the 2004 Distinguished Cryptographer Lecture Series at
NTT Labs, Japan. Professor Sahai is the recipient of numerous honors; he
was named an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow in 2002, and
received an Okawa Research Award in 2007.
His research has been covered by several news agencies including the
BBC World Service.
Research and On-Line Papers (Warning: This is out of date and
currently being updated.
Please email me
for more recent papers).
For an up-to-date list of most of my publications, click here for my DBLP
publication record.
Current Ph.D. Students: Ryan Moriarty, Vipul Goyal, Nishanth Chandran,
Omkant Pandey, Abhishek Jain, and Abishek K.
Graduated Ph.D. Students:
Brent Waters.
Now Computer Scientist at SRI.
Manoj Prabhakaran.
Now Assistant Professor at UIUC.
Edith Elkind.
Now Postdoctoral Researcher at Warwick.
Postdocs and former Postdocs:
Jens Groth (Fall 2005 to present)
Boaz Barak (Summer 2004)
Yuval Ishai (Spring/Summer 2002)
Former Ph.D. students:
Shien Ong
(graduated with Ph.D. from Harvard University)
Teaching:
Office hours: By appointment.
Program Committees:
I am (or have been) on the program committees for the following
conferences. Be sure to submit your best papers to these
conferences, and attend them too!
Eurocrypt 2001, Innsbruck,
Austria
Complexity 2002, Montreal,
Canada
Program Chair:
RANDOM 2003, Princeton, August 24-26, 2003.
IndoCrypt 2004, Chennai, India, December 20-22, 2004.
Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC) 2005,
Cambridge, USA, February 10-12, 2005
ICALP 2005,
Lisboa, Portugal, July 11-15, 2005
AsiaCrypt 2005, Chennai, India, December 2005.
STOC 2006
,
Seattle, WA, May 2006.
Program Chair:
IPAM Workshop on foundations of secure multi-party computation and
zero-knowledge, Los Angeles, CA, November 2006
CRYPTO 2007
, Santa Barbara, CA, August 2007.
SODA 2008, San Fransisco, January 2008.
CRYPTO 2008
, Santa Barbara, CA, August 2008.
Eurocrypt
2010, Nice, France, May/June 2010.
Contact:
UCLA - Amit Sahai
Boelter Hall, Room 3731E
Department of Computer Science
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095
United States of America
Phone: (310) 267-4982
FAX: (310) 825-7578
Email: last name @cs.ucla.edu
