Shafi Goldwasser
Israeli American computer scientist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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Born | 1959 (age 64–65) New York City, New York, U.S. |
Nationality | Israeli American |
Alma mater | Carnegie Mellon University (BS) University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD) |
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Fields | Computer science, cryptography |
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Thesis | Probabilistic Encryption: Theory and Applications (1984) |
Doctoral advisor | Manuel Blum[4] |
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