Shafi Goldwasser

Shafi Goldwasser
Shafi Goldwasser
שפרירה גולדווסר‎
	Goldwasser in 2010
Born	Shafrira Goldwasser; 1959 (age 65–66); New York City, United States
Citizenship	Israel; United States;
Alma mater	Carnegie Mellon University; University of California, Berkeley
Known for	Zero-knowledge proof; Probabilistic encryption; Blum–Goldwasser cryptosystem; Goldwasser–Micali cryptosystem;
Spouse	Nir Shavit
Children	2
Awards	Grace Murray Hopper Award (1996); Gödel Prize (1993, 2001); Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2004); IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (2011); BBVA Award (2018); RSA Mathematics Award (1998); Loreal Unesco Women in Science Award (2021); Turing Award (2012); Suffrage Science award (2016); ACM Fellow (2017); AAAS Fellow (2000);
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer science, cryptography
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Weizmann Institute; Simons Institute, Berkeley;
Thesis	Probabilistic Encryption: Theory and Applications (1984)
Doctoral advisor	Manuel Blum
Doctoral students	Elette Boyle; Johan Håstad; Yael Tauman Kalai; Tal Malkin; Amit Sahai; Salil Vadhan; Vinod Vaikuntanathan;
Website	people.csail.mit.edu/shafi

Shafrira Goldwasser (Hebrew: שפרירה גולדווסר; born 1959^[5]) is an Israeli-American computer scientist. A winner of the Turing Award in 2012, she is the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology;^[6] a professor of mathematical sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science; the director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California, Berkeley; and co-founder and chief scientist of Duality Technologies.^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]

^ Savage, N. (2013). "Proofs probable: Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali laid the foundations for modern cryptography, with contributions including interactive and zero-knowledge proofs". Communications of the ACM. 56 (6): 22. doi:10.1145/2461256.2461265. S2CID 26769891.
^ "Suffrage Science Maths and Computing 2016". issuu.com. October 7, 2016.
^ ^a ^b Shafi Goldwasser at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ Goldwasser, S.; Micali, S.; Rivest, R. L. (1988). "A Digital Signature Scheme Secure Against Adaptive Chosen-Message Attacks". SIAM Journal on Computing. 17 (2): 281. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.309.8700. doi:10.1137/0217017. S2CID 1715998.
^ Charles Rackoff (March 13, 2012). ""Shafi Goldwasser - A.M. Turing Award Laureates"". ACM.
^ "Shafi Goldwasser | MIT CSAIL". www.csail.mit.edu. Retrieved November 2, 2018.
^ "About – Duality Technologies". Duality Technologies. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
^ Hirsch, Deborah (December 16, 2012). "Jewish 6-year-old Youngest of Newtown Shooting Victims". Archived from the original on September 27, 2010.
^ Shafi Goldwasser author profile page at the ACM Digital Library
^ Shafi Goldwasser's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
^ Goldwasser, S.; Micali, S. (1984). "Probabilistic encryption". Journal of Computer and System Sciences. 28 (2): 270. doi:10.1016/0022-0000(84)90070-9.