Awarded Harold Pender Award (2023).
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Shafrira Goldwasser
Shafrira 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, sh…
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science · Israeli American computer scientist (born 1959) · cryptographer · mathematician · computer scientist · engineer · university teacher · also Shafrira Goldwasser, Shafi Goldwasser, Goldwasser
Born 14 November 1958 · Q11609
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2021· 1 entry
Awarded L'Oréal-UNESCO Award For Women in Science (2021).
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2018· 4 entries
Became the director of Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, a position she held until August 2024
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Published “Durable Remissions with Ivosidenib in <i>IDH1</i> -Mutated Relapsed or Refractory AML” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 1,371 times.
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Published “Gut microbiome influences efficacy of PD-1–based immunotherapy against epithelial tumors” in Science — cited 5,061 times.
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Goldwasser was awarded an honorary degree by her alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University
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2017· 2 entries
Awarded ACM Fellow (2017).
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Awarded BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2017).
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2014· 1 entry
Published “Ceritinib in <i>ALK</i> -Rearranged Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 1,189 times.
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded Turing Award (2012).
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And Silvio Micali won the ACM Turing Award
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2011· 2 entries
Awarded IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (2011).
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Published “Randomized, Double-Blind Study of Denosumab Versus Zoledronic Acid in the Treatment of Bone Metastases in Patients With Advanced Cancer (Excluding Breast and Prostate Cancer) or Multiple Myeloma” in Journal of Clinical Oncology — cited 1,029 times.
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2010· 1 entry
Won Benjamin Franklin Medal (2010).
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2009· 1 entry
Published “Association of Colonoscopy and Death From Colorectal Cancer” in Annals of Internal Medicine — cited 1,013 times.
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Athena Lecturer (2008).
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded IACR Fellow (2007).
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2006· 1 entry
Berkeley awarded her its Computer Science Distinguished Alumni Award
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2004· 1 entry
Was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and in 2005 to the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to cryptography, number theory, and complexity theory, and their applications to privacy and secur
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded Gödel Prize (2001).
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Was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2002 she gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing
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1999· 1 entry
Published “Impact: Toward a Framework for Understanding the Ecological Effects of Invaders” in Biological Invasions — cited 1,414 times.
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1998· 1 entry
Published “Mitochondrial reactive oxygen species trigger hypoxia-induced transcription” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — cited 1,672 times.
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1996· 2 entries
Awarded Grace Murray Hopper Award (1996).
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And the RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics in 1998
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1993· 2 entries
Awarded Gödel Prize (1993).
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Along with László Babai, Silvio Micali, Shlomo Moran, and Charles Rackoff (for "The knowledge complexity of interactive proof systems"), and again in 2001 along with Sanjeev Arora, Uriel Feige, Carsten Lund, László Lovás
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1989· 1 entry
Published “The Knowledge Complexity of Interactive Proof Systems” in SIAM Journal on Computing — cited 2,117 times.
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1988· 1 entry
Published “A Digital Signature Scheme Secure Against Adaptive Chosen-Message Attacks” in SIAM Journal on Computing — cited 1,882 times.
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1986· 1 entry
Published “How to construct random functions” in Journal of the ACM — cited 1,399 times.
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1985· 2 entries
Published “The knowledge complexity of interactive proof-systems” in Proceedings of the seventeenth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing - STOC '85 — cited 935 times.
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Goldwasser, Silvio Micali, and Charles Rackoff introduced zero-knowledge proofs, which became a fundamental cryptographic primitive used to probabilistically and interactively demonstrate the validity of an assertion wit
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1984· 2 entries
Published “Probabilistic encryption” in Journal of Computer and System Sciences — cited 2,327 times.
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Along with Silvio Micali, she introduced probabilistic encryption, which has become the basis for most public-key cryptographic schemes
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1983· 1 entry
And in 1997 became the first holder of the RSA Professorship
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1981· 1 entry
And PhD in 1984 from Berkeley advised by Manuel Blum
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1979· 1 entry
In mathematics and science from Carnegie Mellon
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1958· 1 entry
Born 1958-11-14.
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