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Meet our new faculty: Shafi Goldwasser, computer science

 Shafi Goldwasser is a new professor of computer science and director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing

Shafi Goldwasser

November 7, 2018

Shafi GoldwasserName: Shafi Goldwasser
Positions: Professor of computer science, director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
Degrees: B.S., Carnegie Mellon University, 1979; M.S., Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1981, 1984
Research interests: Cryptography, ensuring the privacy and correctness of communication and computation, and computational complexity theory with emphasis on randomized algorithms and proof verification.
Other interests: Reading, traveling, movies, playback theater.
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