The American Association for the Advancement of Science, which is the world’s largest scientific society, today named four UCLA faculty members to its new 2021 class of fellows. Since 1874, the AAAS, which publishes the journal Science, has chosen members for their distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.
Rafail Ostrovsky, a distinguished professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and a distinguished professor of mathematics. He conducts research on cryptography, computer security, streaming algorithms, network algorithms, and search and classification problems of large-scale, high-dimensional data. He has been elected a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE, and the International Association for Cryptologic Research, and a foreign member of Academia Europaea. His honors include the 2017 Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Computer Society and the 2018 RSA Conference Award for Excellence in Mathematics. Since joining the UCLA faculty in 2003 as a full professor, he has advised 28 doctoral students and supervised seven postdoctoral scholars. Ostrovsky is also the director of the interdisciplinary Center for Information and Computation Security.
A total of 564 scholars were selected as fellows this year. They will be honored this month in the journal Science and in person later this year, when it is safer to do so.