Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shai Halevi


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The result was KEEP. (Non-admin closure) --MelanieN (talk) 01:10, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

Shai Halevi

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Subject of the article obviously fails WP:GNG and woefully failed the professor test. Wikic¤l¤gyt@lk to M£ 08:18, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

The Professor Test
I have to strongly disagree regarding the professor test. In particular, Shai Halevi has without any doubt "made significant impact in their scholarly discipline, broadly construed, as demonstrated by independent reliable sources." He has made very significant contributions in many topics in the field of cryptography. Most notably, in the fields mentioned in the entry (fully homomorphic encryption, multilinear maps and obfuscation).

In addition to the above, if you go to the IACR website (the IACR is the International Association of Cryptologic Research; the primary umbrella organization for the topic research in the area) and then go to http://www.iacr.org/cryptodb/data/stats.php you will find statistics on the most prolific authors in the field. Shai Halevi is the 14th most prolific author in cryptology, over all time! (This includes all of the IACR conferences and workshops, which are the best in the field.) In addition, Shai was the program chair of the CRYPTO conference in 2009, and of the Theory of Cryptography Conference in 2006. He is currently the head of the steering committee of the Theory of Cryptography Conference. In 2009-2012 he was also an associate editor in TISSES (ACM Transactions on Information and System Security). Finally, Shai is also a director of the IACR.

The only reason that Shai Halevi is not a tenured full professor at a top university is because he chose to work at the IBM T.J. Watson research center.

Yehudalindell (talk) 12:20, 4 January 2015 (UTC)


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 * Keep per WP:PROF and high citation counts in Halevi's Google scholar profile. Being prolific by itself does not count for much, but being both prolific and well-cited is what #C1 is all about. —David Eppstein (talk) 15:03, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep per David Eppstein. A very clear pass of WP:PROF. -- 120.23.60.37 (talk) 07:48, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep per David Eppstein. I added an archived source showing his service on the board of the IACR, the international organization representing his research specialty. I think it further demonstrates his notability. EricEnfermero (Talk) 11:29, 7 January 2015 (UTC)


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