Ronen Shaltiel (in hebrew: רונן שאלתיאל) Professor, Department of Computer Science. University of Haifa. Office Jacobs 414 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.

Professional Activities

• 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

• 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

• Sergei Artemenko (M.Sc)
• Ariel Gabizon. (Ph.D student at the Weizmann Institute, co-advisor with Ran Raz).
• Dmitry Koifman. (M.Sc student, co-advisor with Benny Pinkas).
• Dan Goldwasser. (M.Sc student, co-advisor with Shai Fine and Ofer Strichman).

Former postdocs

• Iftach Haitner.