Research

My main interest is in fault tolerance within distributed computing.

In the last decade or so my research focused on  coding for  interactive communication systems:

  • Interactive Coding for two-party protocols (rate, noise-resilience, efficiency)
  • Interactive Coding over various types of channels (erasure channels, feedback channels, channels with insertions and deletions
  • Multiparty interactive coding protocols (rate vs. topology, broadcast channels, efficiency, noise-resilience per noise type)

In the last few years I have also been interested in classical topics in distributed computing and models that incorporate faults (of various types) in distributed frameworks. In particualr,

  • Distributed Computing with faulty transmissions (adversarial links, content-oblivious computation)
  • Fault-tolerance in various  distributed computing models (crashes, Byzantine nodes, noisy beeping models, noisy Ameobot model)
  • Incorporating Cryptography and Distributed Computing
  • Incorporating Coding Theory and Distributed Computing

Other than interactive coding and distributed computation, my research involved questions in blockchain technologies and crypto-currencies, data-streams, sorting algorithms, cryptography, and quantum cryptography.


Funding

  • I am grateful to the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) for funding my grant proposal
    "Secure Multi-Party Computation Over Noisy Networks"
    through grant No. 2020277 (2021-2025), joint with Prof. V. Zikas and Prof. C. Hazay.

  • I am grateful to the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) for funding my grant proposal
    "Coding for Interactive Communication: Fundamental Problems and Applications"
    through grant No. 1078/17  (2017-2021).


Service

  • Editor, Scientific Reports (Springer-Nature),  from 2025
  • DISC 2025 (PC member)
  • ICALP 2025 (PC member)
  • PODC 2024 (general chair, SC member)
  • ISIT 2023 (TPC member)
  • PODC 2023 (treasurer, SC member)
  • ITCS 2023 (PC member)
  • PODC 2022 (PC member)
  • PODC 2021 (PC member)
  • ITCS 2020 (PC member)