Alessandro Chiesa

6.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Alessandro Chiesa is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Alessandro Chiesa has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 15 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 6 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Alessandro Chiesa's work include Cryptography and Data Security (21 papers), Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs (11 papers) and semigroups and automata theory (4 papers). Alessandro Chiesa is often cited by papers focused on Cryptography and Data Security (21 papers), Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs (11 papers) and semigroups and automata theory (4 papers). Alessandro Chiesa collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Switzerland. Alessandro Chiesa's co-authors include Eran Tromer, Madars Virza, Matthew Green, Christina Garman, Ian Miers, Eli Ben‐Sasson, Nir Bitansky, Ran Canetti, Raluca Ada Popa and Pratyush Mishra and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the ACM, SIAM Journal on Computing and Algorithmica.

In The Last Decade

Alessandro Chiesa

26 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin
    2014 974 citations Alessandro Chiesa, Christina Garman et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alessandro Chiesa United States 12 1.3k 1.3k 349 219 196 27 1.8k
Christina Garman United States 10 1.7k 1.3× 1.5k 1.1× 483 1.4× 113 0.5× 273 1.4× 19 2.2k
Ian Miers United States 12 1.9k 1.4× 1.7k 1.3× 545 1.6× 139 0.6× 309 1.6× 23 2.4k
Jinguang Han China 22 1.7k 1.3× 2.0k 1.5× 570 1.6× 342 1.6× 182 0.9× 68 2.6k
Madars Virza United States 8 1.1k 0.9× 875 0.7× 287 0.8× 50 0.2× 167 0.9× 12 1.4k
Changyu Dong United Kingdom 18 495 0.4× 1.0k 0.8× 234 0.7× 137 0.6× 126 0.6× 56 1.3k
Aquinas Hobor Singapore 8 1.3k 1.0× 616 0.5× 351 1.0× 128 0.6× 76 0.4× 16 1.5k
Benoît Baudry France 27 1.4k 1.1× 1.0k 0.8× 544 1.6× 93 0.4× 58 0.3× 126 2.3k
Pieter Wuille United States 7 765 0.6× 550 0.4× 348 1.0× 52 0.2× 171 0.9× 11 1.1k
Wolfgang Emmerich United Kingdom 21 1.0k 0.8× 712 0.5× 976 2.8× 71 0.3× 141 0.7× 103 1.7k
Sjouke Mauw Luxembourg 17 499 0.4× 561 0.4× 455 1.3× 307 1.4× 37 0.2× 104 1.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alessandro Chiesa

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alessandro Chiesa

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chiesa, Alessandro, et al.. (2023). IOPs with Inverse Polynomial Soundness Error. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 752–761. 1 indexed citations
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Chiesa, Alessandro, et al.. (2022). Relaxed Locally Correctable Codes with Nearly-Linear Block Length and Constant Query Complexity. SIAM Journal on Computing. 51(6). 1839–1865. 1 indexed citations
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Bitansky, Nir, Alessandro Chiesa, Yuval Ishai, Rafail Ostrovsky, & Omer Paneth. (2022). Succinct Non-Interactive Arguments via Linear Interactive Proofs. Journal of Cryptology. 35(3). 6 indexed citations
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Chiesa, Alessandro, et al.. (2019). Probabilistic Checking Against Non-Signaling Strategies from Linearity Testing. DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics). 25. 123. 1 indexed citations
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Mishra, Pratyush, Rishabh Poddar, Jerry Chen, Alessandro Chiesa, & Raluca Ada Popa. (2018). Oblix: An Efficient Oblivious Search Index. 279–296. 99 indexed citations
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Zheng, Wenting, et al.. (2018). DIZK: A Distributed Zero Knowledge Proof System.. IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive. 2018. 675–692. 6 indexed citations
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Chiesa, Alessandro & Tom Gur. (2017). Proofs of Proximity for Distribution Testing.. DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics). 24. 155.
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Ben‐Sasson, Eli, Alessandro Chiesa, Ariel Gabizon, Michael Riabzev, & Nicholas Spooner. (2017). Interactive Oracle Proofs with Constant Rate and Query Complexity. DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics). 15. 12 indexed citations
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Ben‐Sasson, Eli, Alessandro Chiesa, Ariel Gabizon, Michael Riabzev, & Nicholas Spooner. (2016). Short Interactive Oracle Proofs with Constant Query Complexity, via Composition and Sumcheck.. IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive. 2016. 324. 3 indexed citations
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Bitansky, Nir, Ran Canetti, Alessandro Chiesa, et al.. (2016). The Hunting of the SNARK. Journal of Cryptology. 30(4). 989–1066. 29 indexed citations
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Ben‐Sasson, Eli, Alessandro Chiesa, Eran Tromer, & Madars Virza. (2016). Scalable Zero Knowledge Via Cycles of Elliptic Curves. Algorithmica. 79(4). 1102–1160. 32 indexed citations
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Ben‐Sasson, Eli, Alessandro Chiesa, Matthew Green, Eran Tromer, & Madars Virza. (2015). Secure Sampling of Public Parameters for Succinct Zero Knowledge Proofs. 287–304. 47 indexed citations
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Chiesa, Alessandro, Christina Garman, Matthew Green, et al.. (2014). Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin. 459–474. 974 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bitansky, Nir, Ran Canetti, Alessandro Chiesa, & Eran Tromer. (2013). Recursive composition and bootstrapping for SNARKS and proof-carrying data. 111–120. 85 indexed citations
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Ben‐Sasson, Eli, Alessandro Chiesa, Daniel Genkin, & Eran Tromer. (2013). On the concrete efficiency of probabilistically-checkable proofs. 585–594. 21 indexed citations
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Ben‐Sasson, Eli, Alessandro Chiesa, Eran Tromer, & Madars Virza. (2013). Succinct Non-Interactive Zero Knowledge for a von Neumann Architecture. 200 indexed citations
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Ben‐Sasson, Eli, Alessandro Chiesa, Daniel Genkin, & Eran Tromer. (2012). On the Concrete-Efficiency Threshold of Probabilistically-Checkable Proofs. Electronic colloquium on computational complexity. 19. 45. 8 indexed citations
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Bitansky, Nir, Ran Canetti, Alessandro Chiesa, & Eran Tromer. (2012). From extractable collision resistance to succinct non-interactive arguments of knowledge, and back again. 326–349. 200 indexed citations
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Chiesa, Alessandro & Eran Tromer. (2010). Proof-Carrying Data and Hearsay Arguments from Signature Cards.. 310–331. 17 indexed citations
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Chiesa, Alessandro, et al.. (1977). DARR: A Free-text Analysis System for the Automatic Documentation of Radiological Reports. Methods of Information in Medicine. 16(3). 144–153. 2 indexed citations

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