Carnegie Mellon University (BS) University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD)
Known for
Zero-knowledge proof
Probabilistic encryption
Blum–Goldwasser cryptosystem
Goldwasser–Micali cryptosystem[4]
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)[1]
Suffrage Science award (2016)[2]
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[3]
Doctoral students
Elette Boyle
Johan Håstad
Yael Tauman Kalai
Tal Malkin
Amit Sahai
Salil Vadhan[3]
Vinod Vaikuntanathan
Website
people.csail.mit.edu/shafi
Shafrira Goldwasser (Hebrew: שפרירה גולדווסר; born 1959[5]) is an Israeli-American computer scientist and winner of the Turing Award in 2012. She is the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology;[6] a professor of mathematical sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel; 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.
^ abShafi 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.
^"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.
the prize: Frances Allen (in 2006), Barbara Liskov (in 2008), and ShafiGoldwasser (in 2012). As of 2024, 77 people have been awarded the prize, with...
Founding Director of the Institute, and fellow Turing Award winner ShafiGoldwasser took over as Director on January 1, 2018. The Institute aims to promote...
"Merkle trees" or simply "Hash trees"), and Rabin signatures. In 1988, ShafiGoldwasser, Silvio Micali, and Ronald Rivest became the first to rigorously define...
hard problem. This system was published in 1997 by Oded Goldreich, ShafiGoldwasser, and Shai Halevi, and uses a trapdoor one-way function which relies...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999, where his advisor was ShafiGoldwasser. His research centers around the interface between computational complexity...
Sciences. He received the Turing Award for the year 2012 along with ShafiGoldwasser for their work in the field of cryptography. In 2015 the University...
from Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the supervision of ShafiGoldwasser. From 2008 to 2010, he was a Josef Raviv postdoctoral fellow at the...
provably-secure probabilistic public-key encryption scheme was proposed by ShafiGoldwasser and Silvio Micali, based on the hardness of the quadratic residuosity...
Tenenbaum Turing Award recipients Leonard M. Adleman, Fernando J. Corbató, ShafiGoldwasser, Butler W. Lampson, John McCarthy, Silvio Micali, Marvin Minsky, Ronald...
researchers. Among his Ph.D. students are Leonard Adleman, Dana Angluin, ShafiGoldwasser, Mor Harchol-Balter, Russell Impagliazzo, Silvio Micali, Gary Miller...
Institute of Technology, where she completed her PhD in 2006 with ShafiGoldwasser as her doctoral advisor. She did postdoctoral study at Microsoft Research...
digital subscriber line (DSL) Adele Goldberg, Smalltalk design team ShafiGoldwasser, Israeli-American cryptographer; Turing Award (2013) Philip Greenspun...
of the inventors of the GMR public signature scheme, published with ShafiGoldwasser and Silvio Micali in 1988,[C3] and of ring signatures, an anonymized...
Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award. With computer scientists Uriel Feige, ShafiGoldwasser, László Lovász, and Shmuel Safra, Szegedy won the Test of Time Award...
In the same conference where Babai defined his proof system for MA, ShafiGoldwasser, Silvio Micali and Charles Rackoff published a paper defining the interactive...
(born Egyptian), inventor of the Elgamal discrete log cryptosystem. ShafiGoldwasser, US and Israel, MIT and Weizmann Institute, co-discoverer of zero-knowledge...
widely used methods in primality proving. It is an idea put forward by ShafiGoldwasser and Joe Kilian in 1986 and turned into an algorithm by A. O. L. Atkin...
committee consists of Mihir Bellare, Ivan Damgard, Oded Goldreich, ShafiGoldwasser, Johan Hastad, Russell Impagliazzo, Ueli Maurer, Silvio Micali, Moni...
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