Salil Vadhan
Vicky Joseph Professor of
Computer Science and Applied
Mathematics
School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Harvard University
I am a member of the Theory of
Computation research group. My research areas include
computational complexity, cryptography, randomness in computation, and data privacy.
From August 2011 to July 2012, I am on leave from Harvard as a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research SVC and as a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University.
- Research, papers, and talks.
- NEW: draft monograph on Pseudorandomness
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Courses & Lecture
Notes:
Applied Algebra (AM 106/206), Fall `09, Fall `10.
Pseudorandomness (CS225), taught Spring `02, Spring `04, Spring `07, Spring `09, Spring `11.
Introduction to Formal Systems and Computation (CS 121), taught Fall `04, Fall `05, Fall `08.
Computational Complexity (CS 221), taught Fall `02, Spring `06, Spring `10.
Introduction to Cryptography (CS 120) (and its distance/extension version CSCI E-177), taught Fall `01, Spring `03, Fall `06.
Topics in the Theory of Computation (CS 229r), taught Spring `05.
- Current Ph.D. students: Thomas Steinke, Jon Ullman, Colin Jia Zheng.
Past Ph.D. students:
- Past postdocs: Eli Ben-Sasson (2001-2003), Dan Gutfreund (2005-2007), Alon Rosen (2005-2007), Tal Moran (2008-2011).
- Some Professional Activities:
- Co-organizer, Michael Rabin 80th Birthday Celebration.
- Director, Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society, 2008-11.
- Program Chair, 43rd ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC `11).
- Local Arrangements Chair, 25th Conference on Computational Complexity.
- SIGACT Committee for the Advancement of Theoretical Computer Science.
- Organizer, Visions for Theoretical Computer Science Workshop
- Editor, SIAM Journal on Computing
- Editor, Computational Complexity
- Scientific Board, Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity.
- Chair, 2003-04 Randomness and Computation research cluster at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
- Program
committees: CRYPTO
`09, STOC
`07, TCC `07
(chair), CRYPTO
`06, EUROCRYPT `05. TCC `04, RANDOM `02 (chair), FOCS `01, RANDOM `01, CCC
`01, CRYPTO
`00.
- CV: [pdf]
Research statement (2008): [pdf]
Teaching statement (2008): [pdf]