The Grainger College of Engineering

David Heath

David Heath
David Heath
  • Assistant Professor

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Resident Instruction

  • CS407/ECE407: Cryptography, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2025
  • CS 598 DH Special Topics in Secure Computation, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2024
  • ICS407/ECE407: Cryptography, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Fall 2023
  • CS598 DH: Special Topics in Secure Computation, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2023
  • CS598 DH: Special Topics in Secure Computation, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Fall 2022

Articles in Conference Proceedings

  • Ananya Appana, David Heath, and Ling Ren. Oblivious single access machines - A new model for oblivious computation. In Bo Luo, Xiaojing Liao, Jun Xu, Engin Kirda, and David Lie, editors, ACM CCS 2024, pages 3080-3094. ACM Press, October 2024. (Acceptance Rate: 16.9%)
  • David Heath. Efficient arithmetic in garbled circuits. In Marc Joye and Gregor Leander, editors, EUROCRYPT 2024, Part V, volume 14655 of LNCS, pages 3-31. Springer, Cham, May 2024. (Acceptance Rate: 21.8%)
  • David Heath, Vladimir Kolesnikov, and Lucien Ng. Garbled circuit lookup tables with logarithmic number of ciphertexts. In Marc Joye and Gregor Leander, editors, EUROCRYPT 2024, Part V, volume 14655 of LNCS, pages 185-215. Springer, Cham, May 2024. (Acceptance Rate: 21.8%)
  • Yibin Yang, David Heath, Carmit Hazay, Vladimir Kolesnikov, and Muthu Venkitasubramaniam. Batchman and Robin: Batched and non-batched branching for interactive ZK. In Weizhi Meng, Christian Damsgaard Jensen, Cas Cremers, and Engin Kirda, editors, ACM CCS 2023, pages 1452-1466. ACM Press, November 2023. (Acceptance Rate: 19.2%)
  • David Heath, Vladimir Kolesnikov, and Rafail Ostrovsky. Tri-state circuits: A circuit model that captures RAM. In Helena Handschuh and Anna Lysyanskaya, editors, CRYPTO 2023, Part IV, volume 14084 of LNCS, pages 128-160. Springer, Cham, August 2023. (Acceptance Rate: 25.9%)
  • David Heath, Vladimir Kolesnikov, and Rafail Ostrovsky. EpiGRAM: Practical garbled RAM. In Orr Dunkelman and Stefan Dziembowski, editors, EUROCRYPT 2022, Part I, volume 13275 of LNCS, pages 3-33. Springer, Heidelberg, May/June 2022.(Acceptance Rate: 23.0%)
  • David Heath and Vladimir Kolesnikov. Stacked garbling - garbled circuit proportional to longest execution path. In Daniele Micciancio and Thomas Ristenpart, editors, CRYPTO 2020, Part II, volume 12171 of LNCS, pages 763-792. Springer, Heidelberg, August 2020. (Acceptance Rate: 22.9%)

Honors

  • Distinguished Paper Award, Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Association for Computing and Machinery's Special Interest Group on Security, Audit, and Control (ACM SIGSAC) (2023 )
  • Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology (2023)
  • Best Paper Award, Eurocrypt 2022, International Association for Cryptologic Research (2022)

Teaching Honors

  • Teacher Ranked as Excellent by their Students , Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (Spring 2024)
  • Teacher Ranked as Excellent by their Students, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (Fall 2023)
  • Teacher Ranked as Excellent by their Students, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (Spring 2023)

Recent Courses Taught

  • CS 591 SP - Security and Privacy
  • CS 598 DH - Secure Computation
  • ECE 407 (CS 407) - Cryptography

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