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Prof. Shafrira Goldwasser

RSA Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Associate Member, Broad Institute

Primary DLC

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

MIT Room: 32-G682
(617) 253-5914
http://people.csail.mit.edu/shafi/

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Cryptography
Computational Number Theory
Complexity Theory
Fault-Tolerant Distributed Computation
Probabilistic Proof System
Cybersecurity
Pseudo Randomness\nProperty Testing\nMulti-Party Computations

Research Summary

Cryptography is the study of privacy and correctness of computation and data. Professor Goldwasser’s research aims to find appropriate definitions and proofs of security, through cryptographic protocol design, motivated by technological challenges. She is currently investigating questions in “leakage resilience”, “computing on encrypted data”, and “scalable multi-party computations.”

Goldwasser is particularly interested in the relationship of cryptograhy models to other fields, such as complexity theory, randomness, and distributed computing.

Recent Work

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