Prof. Gilad Asharov
By appointment
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Prof. Asharov earned all three degrees at Bar-Ilan University and completed postdoctoral fellowships at IBM Watson Research and Cornell Tech in NY. He served as a cryptography researcher at JP Morgan and is currently a member of the Center for Applied Cryptography and the Chief Cryptographer at Utila. He was awarded an Israel Science Foundation (ISF) grant for developing algorithms and data structures for hiding information in the cloud, and a grant from the European Commission for developing tools for privacy-preserving machine learning. He collaborates with leading institutions such as MIT and Carnegie Mellon.
Research
Cryptography, Secure Computation, and Blockchain
Today, collaboration between entities relying on sensitive data faces a difficult choice: giving up user privacy or giving up the insights within the data. A prime example is healthcare-hospitals are often unable to cross-reference data to identify drug efficacy due to privacy regulations, delaying life-saving research. Professor Gilad Asharov’s research resolves this deadlock through Secure Multiparty Computation enabling different parties to collaborate and process sensitive data jointly without exposing the underlying private information.
Key Research Areas:
Secure Computation: Enabling parties to collaborate and perform joint computations while keeping their inputs private.
Blockchain and Consensus: Building infrastructures for decentralized systems to reach secure agreements without a central authority.
Oblivious computation: performing computations on data without revealing either the data itself or the access patterns to it.
Research Nature:
Combining deep theoretical research with high-impact practical applications.
Career Horizons:
Graduates of the lab secure key positions such as Zero-Knowledge Protocol Developers in blockchain firms, MPC (Multi-Party Computation) Specialists in financial institutions, Privacy-Preserving Data Mining Algorithmists in tech companies, and security engineers developing crypto infrastructures and digital wallets.
Last Updated Date : 30/07/2026
