Shafi Goldwasser

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 MIT,[6] a professor of mathematical sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, co-founder and chief scientist of Duality Technologies[7] and the director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California, Berkeley.[8][9][10][11]

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Shafi Goldwasser
Shafi Goldwasser in 2010
Born	Hebrew: שפרירה גולדווסר English: Shafrira Goldwasser 1959 (age 63–64) New York City, New York, U.S.
Nationality	Israeli American
Alma mater	Carnegie Mellon University University of California, Berkeley
Known for	Zero-knowledge proof Probabilistic encryption Blum–Goldwasser cryptosystem Goldwasser–Micali cryptosystem[1]
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)[2] Suffrage Science award (2016)[3] ACM Fellow (2017) AAAS Fellow (2000)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science, cryptography
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Weizmann Institute of Science University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	Probabilistic Encryption: Theory and Applications (1984)
Doctoral advisor	Manuel Blum[4]
Doctoral students	Elette Boyle Johan Håstad Yael Tauman Kalai Tal Malkin Amit Sahai Salil Vadhan[4] Vinod Vaikuntanathan
Website	people.csail.mit.edu/shafi