Shafi Goldwasser(1958)
Computer ScienceShafrira Goldwasser 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.
United StatesBerkeley College
4
Major Awards
257
Publications
26,577
Citations
63
h-index
132
i10-index
103.4
Avg Citations/Paper
Awards & Recognition
Most Cited Works
Top publications by citation count#1
Description of a collaborative sperm whale birth and shifts in coda vocal styles during key events
Scientific Reports(2026)
0
citations
#2
Probabilistic encryption & how to play mental poker keeping secret all partial information
Providing Sound Foundations for Cryptography(2019)
46
citations
#3
Safe Machine Learning ( October 19-20 , 2017 ) DARPA workshop at the Simons Institute Organizers :
(2018)
0
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#7
Efficient probabilistic checkable proofs and applications to approximation
Symposium on the Theory of Computing(1994)
6
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#8
10
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Recent Publications
View all worksDescription of a collaborative sperm whale birth and shifts in coda vocal styles during key events
Scientific Reports2026
0citations
Probabilistic encryption & how to play mental poker keeping secret all partial information
Providing Sound Foundations for Cryptography2019
46citations
0citations
0citations
Efficient probabilistic checkable proofs and applications to approximation
Symposium on the Theory of Computing1994
6citations
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Career Path
Award progression over time
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Co-winners
Shared the same award in the same year
Education
University of California, Berkeley
Carnegie Mellon University
Doctoral Advisors
Johan HåstadSalil VadhanAmit SahaiDaniele MicciancioVinod VaikuntanathanWilliam A. AielloJoseph John KilianTal MalkinYishay MansourGuy N. RothblumZvika BrakerskiAdam SealfonManuel Blum
Career Timeline
Massachusetts Institute of Technology?–present
Weizmann Institute of Science?–present
Top Publications
Cryptography
Oberwolfach Reports20250 citations
Oblivious Defense in ML Models: Backdoor Removal without Detection
Proceedings of the 57th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing20250 citations
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