135 East 50th Street, Apt. 9D
New York, NY 10022
ALEKSANDR YAMPOLSKIY
Phone: 917-747-1821
E-mail: yampolskiy@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Yale University
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Thesis: “Efficient Cryptographic Tools for Secure Distributed Computing”, Advisor: James Aspnes
New Haven, CT
2006
M.Phil. in Computer Science (2004), M.S. in Computer Science (2003)
New York University
B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science (GPA: 3.907/4.00)
(Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Departmental Honors in Computer Science)
New York, NY
2001
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Languages: Java, C/C++, C\#, JavaScript, Perl, Python, Pascal, Basic, Assembler (x86, MIPS), SETL2, SQL, XML, UML, SML/NJ,
various UNIX scripts (SED, AWK, SH).
Operating Systems: MS DOS, Linux, UNIX, Windows 2000/NT/XP.
Applications: Eclipse, ANT, Clover, Product Studio, CoreXT/NT, Orca, Spy++, gcc, Flash, MatLab, EMacs, VI, LaTeX, MS Office,
Visual Studio .NET.
Other: Cryptography, distributed computing, OOP design patterns, high-performance XML processing, SAX/DOM, database
design, LDAP, J2EE container security, EJB, Mbeans, servlets, JMX, JDBC, testing methodologies (Junit, etc.).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
October 2007 – present
Senior Security Engineer / Associate, Goldman Sachs (Security Engineering)
 Developing firmwide authentication/authorization infrastructure.
May 2006 – October 2007
Senior Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation (Identity Management &
Security). Responsible for developing identity management and security software,
focusing on security, authentication and federated identity protocols (e.g., SAML,
Liberty Alliance and WS-Security).
 Added support in the Oracle Identity Federation server for X509 attribute
mapping/filtering (Java).
 Implemented JMX MBeans to remotely provision users/roles in the LDAP data
store used by Oracle's JAZN (authorization/policy provider) (Java).
 Improved performance of Oracle crypto toolkits and made them compliant with
Sun JCE standards (Java, C++).
 Developed a QA suite of JUnit and regression tests for ASCTL (a scripting
language used to configure Oracle Application Server) (Java, Jython).
September 2001– February 2006
Graduate Researcher, Yale University.
 Analyzed various security problems from combined economic and cryptographic
points of view.
 Designed a mechanism to spread signals furtively across the network.
 Proposed a game-theoretic model for containment of viruses in a network.
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Invented a way of protecting documents from a malicious storage provider by
entangling them together.
June 2003 – August 2003
Software Design Engineer Intern, Microsoft Corporation (Windows Live OneCare).
Responsible for backup functionality in Windows Live OneCare safety scanner:
 Implemented a COM module for disaster recovery from backup CDs (C++).
 Developed an AUTORUN application that launches when a user inserts a backup
CD into the computer (C/C++).
 Interacted with other developers, program managers, and the client UI team to
integrate AUTORUN component with the rest of the product (C#).
 Created a UI for the disaster recovery module, which displays a list of backed up
files in a tree-like structure (C#).
July 2000 – September 2000
Research Assistant, Distributed and Parallel Systems Group.
 Investigated migration of process states across arbitrary networks.
 Developed API to intercept Win32 function calls using MS Detours library (C).
 Implemented a fault-tolerant replicated state machine simulator (Java, Perl).
PUBLICATIONS (authors listed alphabetically)
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Yevgeniy Dodis, Aleksandr Yampolskiy, Moti Yung: Threshold and Proactive Pseudo-Random Permutations. Third
Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC 2006), February 2006, pp. 542-560.
James Aspnes, Zoë Diamadi, Kristian Gjøsteen, René Peralta, Aleksandr Yampolskiy: Spreading Alerts Quietly and the
Subgroup Escape Problem. 11th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information
Security (ASIACRYPT 2005), December 2005, pp. 253-272.
Yevgeniy Dodis, Aleksandr Yampolskiy: A Verifiable Random Function With Short Proofs and Keys. Eighth International
Workshop on Theory and Practice in Public Key Cryptography (PKC 2005), January 2005, pp. 416-431. Winner of the
Best Paper Award.
James Aspnes, Kevin Chang, Aleksandr Yampolskiy: Inoculation Strategies for Victims of Viruses and the Sum-ofSquares Partition Problem. Sixteenth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2005), January 2005,
pp. 43-52.
James Aspnes, Joan Feigenbaum, Aleksandr Yampolskiy, Sheng Zhong: Towards a Theory of Data Entanglement.
Ninth European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2004), September 2004, pp. 177-192.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2005
2001-2002
2000
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Best Paper Award in Public Key Cryptography (PKC 2005) conference.
Awarded fellowship by Yale University.
Winner of Pan-American intercollegiate blitz chess championship.
Character Traits Award, Achievement for Effort Award.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
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Invited reviewer for “The Handbook of Information Security” (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
Reviewer for top computer security conferences like CCS 2005, DISC 2005, EUROCRYPT 2005.
Volunteer administrator for Internet Chess Club (chessclub.com). Liaison with Russian-speaking users.
President of Yale's Russian club with over 200 members (2005-2006).
Organizer of Yale Entrepreneurial Society – New York Chapter (theyaleentrepreneur.org).
LANGUAGES
Fluent in Russian. Reading skills in German and Hebrew.