Prof. Yael Tauman Kalai

Yael Kalai joined the Department of of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) in September 2024. She is also a member of CSAIL. Her research interests include cryptography, the theory of computation, and security and privacy. Kalai currently focuses on both the theoretical and real-world applications of cryptography, including work on succinct and easily verifiable non-interactive proofs. She received her bachelor’s degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a master’s degree at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and a Ph.D. from MIT.