# Shafi Goldwasser

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STEMpire Spotlight: Shafi Goldwasser

Here is the story of Shafi Goldwasser, a two time Gödel prize winner and a Turing award recipient who laid the groundwork for new solutions in the science of cryptography and innovative methods that only grew the field further.

Women who should have won: The Turing Award

The Turing Award is generally regarded as the highest honor in computer science. In more than 50 years, only three women have won: Frances Allen, Barbara Liskov, and Shafi Goldwasser, but plenty of brilliant women computer scientists were overlooked: U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper was a trailb…

Zero Knowledge: The Cryptographic Key to Privacy Protection

Dive into the groundbreaking world of zero-knowledge proofs and the transformative evolution of Polygon 2.0 in our latest article exploring the realm of blockchain innovation and interconnected ecosystems. Discover the historical significance of zero-knowledge proofs, their pivotal role in securing…

Shafi Goldwasser

Shafi Goldwasser is an award-winning mathematician and computer scientist and the Director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley. Her most notable work is in cryptography and zero knowledge proof. We discuss the promise of cryptography to make our society more secure. …

World-leaders in Cryptography: Vinod Vaikuntanathan

Vinod is a professor of computer science at MIT and a principal investigator in the IT Computer Science and AI Lab. He completed his Bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2003, and his PhD in 2009 from MIT. His main supervisor was Shafi Goldwasser. Vinod is seen as a w…

World-leaders in Cryptography: Daniele Micciancio

Daniele is a professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of California, San Diego and, in 2019, he was elected as a Fellow of the IACR. His main focus is on the foundations of lattice-based cryptography and its advanced applications, including fully homomorphic e…

The Nobel Prize of Computing: Inside the ACM A.M. Turing Award (Hindi)

The ACM A.M. Turing Award is universally recognized as the "Nobel Prize of Computing" and stands as the highest distinction in the field of computer science. Presented annually by the Association for Computing Machinery, it honors individuals whose technical contributions have had a lasting and maj…

The Nobel Prize of Computing: Inside the ACM A.M. Turing Award (English)

The ACM A.M. Turing Award is universally recognized as the "Nobel Prize of Computing" and stands as the highest distinction in the field of computer science. Presented annually by the Association for Computing Machinery, it honors individuals whose technical contributions have had a lasting and maj…

How Zero-Knowledge Proofs Were Invented (ft. Co-Inventor and Turing Award Winner Shafi Goldwasser)

How can you prove that something is true without revealing why it is true?  That question gave rise to zero-knowledge proofs, one of the most important breakthroughs in modern cryptography. What began as an attempt to solve a seemingly playful problem — playing poker securely over the telephone — …

World-leaders in Cryptography: Yael Tauman Kalai

Yael is the Ellen Shallow Richards Professor at MIT. She was previously a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. At the Weizmann Institute of Science, Yael worked with Adi Shamir and completed her PhD advised by Shafi Goldwasser at MIT in 2006. She was elected as a Fellow of the IACR in…