Yael Tauman Kalai
Yael Tauman Kalai | |
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יעל טאומן קלעי | |
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| Born | |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (BSc) Weizmann Institute (MS) MIT (PhD) |
| Known for | Ring signatures Insecurity of the Fiat–Shamir heuristic Delegating computation |
| Relatives | Yair Tauman (father) |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cryptography Theoretical computer science |
| Institutions | Microsoft Research MIT |
| Doctoral advisor | Shafi Goldwasser |
| Doctoral students | Elette Boyle |
Yael Tauman Kalai (Hebrew: יעל טאומן קלעי) is a cryptographer and theoretical computer scientist and the Ellen Swallow Richards Professor at MIT in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.[1] Previously, she worked as a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England[2][3].
Education and career
Kalai graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1997. She earned a master's degree in 2001 at the Weizmann Institute of Science, working with Adi Shamir, and then completed a PhD advised by Shafi Goldwasser at MIT in 2006. After postdoctoral study at Microsoft Research and the Weizmann Institute, she became a faculty member at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She took a permanent position at Microsoft Research in 2008[2][3] and became a professor at MIT in 2024.[4] She serves on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM).[5]
Contributions
Kalai is known for co-inventing ring signatures, which has become a key component of numerous systems such as Cryptonote and Monero (cryptocurrency). Subsequently, together with her advisor Shafi Goldwasser, she demonstrated an insecurity in the widely used Fiat–Shamir heuristic. Her work on delegating computation has applications to cloud computing.[6]
Recognition
Kalai was an invited speaker on mathematical aspects of computer science at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians.[7]
Her master's thesis introducing ring signatures won an outstanding master's thesis award[3] and MIT PhD dissertation was awarded the George M. Sprowls Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Computer Science.[3][8]
She was co-chair of the Theory of Cryptography Conference in 2017.[9]
She was awarded the 2022 ACM Prize in Computing "for breakthroughs in verifiable delegation of computation and fundamental contributions to cryptography".[10]
Personal
Kalai is the daughter of game theorist Yair Tauman.[11] Her husband, Adam Tauman Kalai, works at OpenAI.
References
- ^ Yael Kalai, MIT CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October 23, 2024
- ^ a b Yael Tauman Kalai, Principal Researcher, Microsoft, retrieved 2018-09-11
- ^ a b c d Yael Kalai, Researcher, Microsoft Research New England, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, 22 October 2014
- ^ Goodale, Zach (2024-05-23). "School of Engineering welcomes new faculty". MIT News.
- ^ "ICERM - Trustee and Advisory Boards - Trustee & Advisory Boards". icerm.brown.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
- ^ Hardesty, Larry (June 10, 2013), "Securing the cloud: New algorithm solves major problem with homomorphic encryption", MIT News, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, retrieved 2018-09-11 – via Phys.org
- ^ "Invited section lectures", ICM 2018, archived from the original on 2018-12-08, retrieved 2018-08-08
- ^ "Awards and Honors 2007", EECS Newsletter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Fall 2007, archived from the original on March 27, 2020, retrieved Sep 10, 2018
- ^ Theory of Cryptography: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference, TCC 2017, Baltimore, MD, USA, November 12-15, 2017, Springer, retrieved 2018-09-11
- ^ ACM Prize in Computing Recognizes Yael Tauman Kalai for Fundamental Contributions to Cryptography, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved April 13, 2023
- ^ Parshall, Allison (July 27, 2023), "The Cryptographer Who Ensures We Can Trust Our Computers", Quanta Magazine
External links
- Yael Tauman Kalai publications indexed by Google Scholar