Shafi Goldwasser

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Shafi Goldwasser is an Israeli-American computer scientist renowned for her foundational contributions to cryptography and computational complexity theory.


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instanceOf Israeli-American person
computer scientist
cryptographer
theoretical computer scientist
almaMater Carnegie Mellon University
University of California, Berkeley
awardReceived ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award
Donald E. Knuth Prize
Franklin Institute Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science
Gödel Prize
IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award
L’Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science
RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics
Turing Award
birthDate 1958-01-01
birthPlace New York City
coAuthor Avi Wigderson
Charles Rackoff
Johan Håstad
Michael Sipser
Oded Goldreich
Silvio Micali
degree Bachelor of Science in mathematics and science
Master of Science in computer science
PhD in computer science
doctoralAdvisor Manuel Blum
employer Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of California, Berkeley
Weizmann Institute of Science
field computational complexity theory
computer science
cryptography
theory of computation
gender female
godelPrizeYear 1993
2001
knownFor complexity theory of approximation
foundations of modern cryptography
interactive proof systems
probabilistic encryption
secure multiparty computation
zero-knowledge proofs
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Sciences
nationality American
Israeli
notableWork Interactive Proofs and the Hardness of Approximating Cliques
Probabilistic Encryption
The Knowledge Complexity of Interactive Proof Systems
position director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
professor of computer science and applied mathematics at Weizmann Institute of Science
professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT
professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley
thesisTitle Randomness and Computation
thesisYear 1984
turingAwardFor transformative work that laid the foundations of modern cryptography
turingAwardYear 2012


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