Tal Malkin
Israeli-American cryptographer
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Tal Geula Malkin (Hebrew: טל גאולה מלכין; born 1970)[1] is an Israeli-American cryptographer who works as a professor of computer science at Columbia University, where she heads the Cryptography Lab and the Data Science Institute Cybersecurity Center.[2]
Tal Malkin | |
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טל מלכין | |
| Born | 1970 (age 55–56) |
| Alma mater | Bar-Ilan University, Weizmann Institute of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Cryptography, black-box separations, multiparty computation, tamper resilience |
| Awards | Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (2020) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cryptography |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
| Doctoral advisor | Shafi Goldwasser |
Education and career
Malkin graduated summa cum laude from Bar-Ilan University in 1993, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science. She earned a master's degree in computer science from Weizmann Institute of Science in 1995, with the master's thesis Deductive Tableaux for Temporal Logic supervised by Amir Pnueli,[3] and completed a Ph.D. in 2000 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the dissertation A Study of Secure Database Access and General Two-Party Computation supervised by Shafi Goldwasser.[3][4]
As a doctoral student, she also worked as an intern for IBM Research at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and as a research scientist for AT&T Labs, continuing there through 2002. In 2003 she joined Columbia University as an assistant professor of computer science, earning tenure there in 2009.[3]
Recognition
Malkin was named as a 2020 Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, "for foundational contributions, including black-box separations, multiparty computation, and tamper resilience, and for service to the IACR".[5]