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Shafi Goldwasser

Shafrira Goldwasser is an Israeli-American computer scientist

1958 – presentU.S.AContribution: 1989

Introduction

Shafi Goldwasser (born 1958) is an American-Israeli computer scientist and recipient of the Turing Award. She has made significant contributions to cryptography, computational complexity theory, and computational number theory. Goldwasser's work on interactive proofs and zero-knowledge proofs has revolutionized the field of cryptography and has had a profound impact on the security of modern computer systems.

Key Achievement

Invented zero-knowledge proofs with Micali and Rackoff; she and Micali received the Turing Award (2012) for this and other work.

Biography

Shafrira Goldwasser is an Israeli-American computer scientist. She is the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a professor of mathematical sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, the former director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, and co-founder and chief scientist of Duality Technologies. In 2012, she and Silvio Micali won the ACM Turing Award.

Did You Know?

  • In 2012, she and Silvio Micali won the ACM Turing Award.

Awards

Gödel Prize1993
Grace Murray Hopper Award1996
IACR Fellow2007
Athena Lecturer2008
Benjamin Franklin Medal2010
IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award2011
Turing Award2012
ACM Fellow2017
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award2017
L'Oréal-UNESCO Award For Women in Science2021
Harold Pender Award2023

Institutions

Weizmann Institute of Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Education

Carnegie Mellon University

University of California, Berkeley