Ronen Shaltiel (in hebrew: רונן שאלתיאל)

Professor, Department of Computer Science. University of Haifa.

Office	Amir 411 (Campus Hanamal)
Snail mail	Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa, 31905, Israel.
phone	+972-4-8249952
fax	+972-4-8249331
Email	ronen at cs dot haifa dot ac dot il

Online papers

• Research papers.
• My Thesis and Surveys.

Research Interests 

• Complexity theory.
• Pseudorandomness and derandomization.
• Explicit constructions of combinatorial objects.
• Cryptography.

Some Professional Activities

• Publicity Chair: The International Conference on Randomization and Computation (RANDOM).
• Registration Chair: Computational Complexity Conference (2018-2021).
• Program Committee member: 20th International Workshop on Randomization and Computation (RANDOM 2016).
• Associate Editor: Transactions on Computation Theory (ToCT).
• Invited Speaker: The 38th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2011).
• Chair of Program Committee: 14th International Workshop on Randomization and Computation (RANDOM 2010).
• Member of ECCC scientific board.
• Conference Committee: IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity (2008-2011).
• Program Committee member: 11th International Workshop on Randomization and Computation (RANDOM 2007).
• Program Committee member: 22nd IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC 2007).
• Program Committee member:  4th Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC 2007).

Teaching

• Foundations of Cryptography (Spring 2018).
• Seminar in Theory of Computer Science (Spring 2018).
• Computational Complexity (Spring 2017).
• Topics in Pseudorandomness (Fall 2016).
• Computational Complexity (Spring 2015).
• Introduction to Coding Theory (Fall 2014-2015)
• Computational Complexity (Spring 2013).
• Foundations of Cryptography (Spring 2012).
• Computational Complexity (Fall 2010-2011).
• Foundations of Cryptography (Spring 2010).
• Computational Complexity (Spring 2009).
• Theory Seminar (Fall 2006-2007, Spring 2007, Fall 2007-2008, Spring 2008),
• Foundations of Cryptography (Spring 2008).
• Computational Complexity (Spring 2007).
• Computational Models (Spring 2005, Fall 2005-2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2006-2007, Fall 2007-2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2008-2009, Spring 2009).
• Introduction to Coding Theory (Fall 2006-2007).
• Topics in Pseudorandomness (Fall 2005-2006).
• Probabilistic Algorithms (Fall 2004-2005).
• Topics in Pseudorandomness (Together with Omer Reingold at the Weizmann Institute, 2003).
• Extractors and Pseudorandom generators (at the Weizmann Institute, 2001).

Previous Education and Positions

Postdoc at the Weizmann Institute of science (2001-2004) under Oded Goldreich and Moni Naor.

A visiting student at the Theoretical Computer Science and Discrete Mathematics program,
    Institute For advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (1999-2001).

    Ph.D. Student (1996-2001)
    Advisor: Prof. Avi Wigderson.
    Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Students

Ph.D.

· Jad Silbak (Ph.D, at Tel-Aviv University, together with co-advisor Iftach Haitner).

· Sergei Artemenko (Ph.D).

· Ariel Gabizon. (Ph.D, at the Weizmann Institute, together with co-advisor Ran Raz).

M.Sc.

· Aryeh Grinberg (M.Sc).

· Jad Silbak (M.Sc).

· Sergei Artemenko (M.Sc).

· Dmitry Koifman. (M.Sc together with co-advisor Benny Pinkas).

Postdocs

· Iftach Haitner. (Now at TAU).

· Justin Oh.