Shafi Goldwasser

Shafi Goldwasser
Shafi Goldwasser
שפרירה גולדווסר‎
	Goldwasser in 2010
Born	Shafrira Goldwasser; 1959 (age 66–67); New York City, United States
Citizenship	Israel; United States;
Education	Carnegie Mellon University (BS); University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD)
Known for	Zero-knowledge proof; Probabilistic encryption; Blum–Goldwasser cryptosystem; Goldwasser–Micali cryptosystem;
Children	2
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); Suffrage Science award (2016); ACM Fellow (2017); AAAS Fellow (2000);
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer science, cryptography
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Weizmann Institute; Simons Institute, Berkeley;
Thesis	Probabilistic Encryption: Theory and Applications (1984)
Doctoral advisor	Manuel Blum
Doctoral students	Elette Boyle; Johan Håstad; Yael Tauman Kalai; Tal Malkin; Amit Sahai; Salil Vadhan; Vinod Vaikuntanathan;
Website	people.csail.mit.edu/shafi

Shafrira Goldwasser (Hebrew: שפרירה גולדווסר; born 1959) is an Israeli-American computer scientist. She is the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a professor of mathematical sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, the former director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, and co-founder and chief scientist of Duality Technologies. In 2012, she and Silvio Micali won the ACM Turing Award.