Adam Sealfon


I am a research scientist in the Algorithms team at Google Research. I am currently working on problems related to differential privacy. I am also broadly interested in algorithms, cryptography, and machine learning, particularly provable guarantees for data privacy, robustness and security.

I received a PhD in computer science from MIT, where I was fortunate to be advised by Shafi Goldwasser. At MIT, I was a member of the Theory of Computation (TOC) and Cryptography and Information Security (CIS) groups. I also have an AB in mathematics and an SM in computer science from Harvard University, where I was advised by Salil Vadhan. Before joining Google Research, I was a postdoc at UC Berkeley working with Jacob Steinhardt and Michael Jordan and affiliated with the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) group.

Email: asealfon at berkeley dot edu


News

  • I joined Google Research!
  • Manuscripts: Scan, Shuffle, Rescan: Machine-Assisted Election Audits With Untrusted Scanners, with Douglas W. Jones, Sunoo Park, and Ronald L. Rivest [ePrint]; Synchronizable Fair Exchange, with Ranjit Kumaresan and Srinivasan Raghuraman [ePrint].

Publications

See also DBLP and Google Scholar.
  • Batch Verification for Statistical Zero Knowledge Proofs
    Inbar Kaslasi, Guy N. Rothblum, Ron D. Rothblum, Adam Sealfon, and Prashant Nalini Vasudevan
    TCC 2020
    Available at [ePrint]
  • Efficiently Estimating Erdős-Rényi Graphs with Node Differential Privacy
    Adam Sealfon and Jon Ullman
    NeurIPS 2019; invited to Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, 2021
    Available at [arXiv]
  • It wasn't me! Repudiability and Claimability of Ring Signatures
    Sunoo Park and Adam Sealfon
    Crypto 2019
    Available at [ePrint]
  • Towards Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge for NP from LWE
    Ron D. Rothblum, Adam Sealfon and Katerina Sotiraki
    PKC 2019; invited to Journal of Cryptology, 2021
    Available at [ePrint]
  • Population Stability: Regulating Size in the Presence of an Adversary
    Shafi Goldwasser, Rafail Ostrovsky, Alessandra Scafuro and Adam Sealfon
    PODC 2018
    Available at [arXiv]
  • Network Oblivious Transfer
    Ranjit Kumaresan, Srinivasan Raghuraman and Adam Sealfon
    Crypto 2016
    Available at [ePrint]
  • Shortest Paths and Distances with Differential Privacy
    Adam Sealfon
    PODS 2016
    Recipient of best student paper award
    Available at [arXiv]
  • Truth Tellers and Liars with Fewer Questions
    Gilad Braunschvig, Alon Brutzkus, David Peleg and Adam Sealfon
    Discrete Mathematics, 2015
  • Fault Tolerant Additive and (μ, α)-Spanners
    Gilad Braunschvig, Shiri Chechik, David Peleg and Adam Sealfon
    Theoretical Computer Science, 2015
  • Agreement in Partitioned Dynamic Networks (Brief Announcement)
    Adam Sealfon and Katerina Sotiraki
    DISC 2014
    Available at [arXiv]

Theses

  • Keep it secret, keep it safe: privacy, security, and robustness in an adversarial world
    Adam Sealfon
    PhD thesis
    Available at [MIT Libraries]
  • Fault tolerant graph spanners
    Adam Sealfon
    Undergraduate honors thesis