Scholar
Neekon Vafa
Google Scholar ID: _jVnYD8AAAAJ
PhD Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citations & Impact
Citations
143
H-index
6
i10-index
4
Publications
14
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- 1. Published paper 'Symmetric Perceptrons, Number Partitioning and Lattices' at STOC 2025 and invited to the SIAM Journal of Computing Special Issue;
- 2. Published paper 'Oblivious Defense in ML Models: Backdoor Removal without Detection' at STOC 2025;
- 3. Published multiple papers at Eurocrypt 2025;
- 4. Published papers at TCC 2024, Crypto 2023, FOCS 2022, ITCS 2022, and other conferences;
- 5. Published paper 'Memory Checking Requires Logarithmic Overhead' in the Journal of the ACM.
Research Experience
- 1. MIT: Final-year PhD student;
- 2. Google (YouTube): Software engineer;
- 3. NTT Research: Internship experience.
Education
- 1. MIT: PhD student, advised by Vinod Vaikuntanathan, specializing in theoretical computer science;
- 2. Harvard University: BA in mathematics, participated in DIMACS REU (mentored by Eric Allender) and Ken Ono's number theory REU (mentored by Ken Ono and John Duncan).
Background
- Theoretical CS PhD student, with research interests in cryptography and its connections to statistics and machine learning. Currently pursuing a PhD at MIT.
Miscellany
- Personal interests not mentioned.
Co-authors