19 Facts About Shafrira Goldwasser

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

Shafrira Goldwasser's is the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, a professor of mathematical sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, co-founder and chief scientist of Duality Technologies and the director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing in Berkeley, CA.

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

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

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

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In 2005, Shafrira 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.

Since November 2016, Shafrira 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.

Shafrira Goldwasser's 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.

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

Shafrira 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shafrira Goldwasser's was on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2020.

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