23 Facts About Shafi Goldwasser

Shafrira Goldwasser is an Israeli-American computer scientist and winner of the Turing Award in 2012.

Shafi Goldwasser is the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 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.

Shafi Goldwasser continued her studies in computer science at Berkeley, receiving a Master of Science degree in 1981 and a PhD in 1984.

Shafi Goldwasser joined MIT in 1983, and in 1997 became the first holder of the RSA Professorship.

Shafi Goldwasser became a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, concurrent to her professorship at MIT, in 1993.

Shafi Goldwasser is a member of the theory of computation group at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

In 2005, Shafi Goldwasser was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to cryptography, number theory, and complexity theory, and their applications to privacy and security, and in 2006, Berkeley awarded her its Computer Science Distinguished Alumni Award.

Shafi Goldwasser was a co-recipient of the 2012 Turing Award for "revolutionizing the science of cryptography".

Since November 2016, Shafi Goldwasser has been serving as the chief scientist and co-Founder of Duality Technologies, a US-based start-up which offers secure data analytics using advanced cryptographic techniques.

Shafi Goldwasser is a scientific advisor for several technology startups in the security area, including QED-it, specializing in the Zero Knowledge Blockchain, and Algorand, a pure proof-of-stake blockchain.

Shafi Goldwasser is the co-inventor of probabilistic encryption, which set up and achieved the gold standard for security for data encryption.

Shafi Goldwasser is a co-inventor of zero-knowledge proofs, which probabilistically and interactively demonstrate the validity of an assertion without conveying any additional knowledge, and are a key tool in the design of cryptographic protocols.

Shafi Goldwasser is a lead on Project CETI, an interdisciplinary initiative for translating the communication of sperm whales.

Shafi Goldwasser was awarded the 2012 Turing Award along with Silvio Micali for their work in the field of cryptography.

Shafi Goldwasser has twice won the Godel Prize in theoretical computer science: first in 1993, and again in 2001.

Shafi Goldwasser was selected as an IACR Fellow in 2007.

Shafi Goldwasser is the recipient of The Franklin Institute's 2010 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science.

Shafi Goldwasser received the 2018 Frontier of Knowledge award together with Micali, Rivest and Shamir.

In 2018, Shafi Goldwasser was awarded an honorary degree by her alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University.

On 26 June 2019 Shafi Goldwasser was awarded an honorary doctorate of science by the University of Oxford.

Shafi Goldwasser is featured in the Notable Women in Computing cards.

Shafi Goldwasser was on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2020.

Shafi Goldwasser was awarded the 2021 L'Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science Award in Computer Science.