Dr. Ahmad Al Badawi

Research Impact

Citations measure attention; this page tracks what the work has actually been used for. Libraries shipped and adopted across the field, hardware taped out, patient data analyzed across hospitals, and the papers that have crossed milestone citation counts.

OpenFHE leads the FHE library market

External signal April 2026

51% adoption. #1 fully homomorphic encryption library.

Lattica's 2nd FHE Landscape Survey (16 April 2026) of cryptographers, engineers, and researchers ranks OpenFHE as the most widely used fully homomorphic encryption library, ahead of TFHE-rs (33%), Lattigo (21%), Concrete (18%), HeaAN (13%), HElayers (10%), SEAL/TenSEAL (10%), HELib (8%), and Poulpy (5%).

OpenFHE is the open-source FHE library I co-authored, the successor to PALISADE. The signal is strengthened by the fact that Lattica itself builds a competing commercial FHE library (listed in the same survey under "proprietary library, 15%"), so this is an independent measurement rather than a self-report.

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Real-world deployment

PNAS 2023 Clinical data

Multiparty FHE on real oncology data

Collaborative privacy-preserving analysis of oncological data using multiparty homomorphic encryption - cross-institution analysis of real patient records without exposing any individual hospital's data. Not a benchmark, not a synthetic dataset: an end-to-end deployment in a high-sensitivity domain, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Papers with 100+ citations

The following papers have crossed 100 citations on Google Scholar. Listed in citation-count order. Last updated, May 2026.

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