I am a Ph.D. student in deprtment of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at MIT.

My advisor is Vinod Vaikuntanathan.

I completed my M.Sc. in 2014 at Tel Aviv University under the guidance of Iftach Haitner.

I am interested in theoretical computer science, mainly foundations of cryptography and computational complexity.

Email: [firstname] [first 4 letters of last name] at mit dot edu

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Publications
In reverse chronological order

• From Laconic Zero-Knowledge to Public-Key Cryptography
  Itay Berman and Akshay Degwekar and Ron D. Rothblum and Prashant Nalini Vasudevan
  CRYPTO 2018 [link] New!
  Draft of full version [eccc]


• Multi Collision Resistant Hash Functions and their Applications
  Itay Berman and Akshay Degwekar and Ron D. Rothblum and Prashant Nalini Vasudevan
  EUROCRYPT 2018 [link]
  Draft of full version [eccc]


• Zero-Knowledge Proofs of Proximity
  Itay Berman and Ron D. Rothblum and Vinod Vaikuntanathan
  ITCS 2018 [link]
  Draft of full version [ePrint]


• Coin Flipping of Any Constant Bias Implies One-Way Functions
  Itay Berman and Iftach Haitner and Aris Tentes
  Journal of the ACM 2018 [link]
  STOC 2014 [link]
  Draft of full version [eccc]


• Hardness Preserving Reductions via Cuckoo Hashing
  Itay Berman and Iftach Haitner and Ilan Komargodski and Moni Naor
  TCC 2013 [link]
  Draft of full version [eccc]


• From Non-Adaptive to Adaptive Pseudorandom Functions
  Itay Berman and Iftach Haitner
  Journal of Cryptology 2013 [link]
  TCC 2012 [link]
  Draft of full version [ePrint]

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Teaching

• Automata, Computability, and Complexity (MIT) [Spring 2018]


• Introduction to the Theory of Computation (MIT) [Fall 2016]


• Computational Complexity (Tel Aviv University) [Fall 2012/13, Spring 2012/13]


• Introduction to Modern Cryptography (Tel Aviv University) [Fall 2012/13]