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Tal Malkin

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Tal Malkin
Born1970
Alma materBar-Ilan University, Weizmann Institute of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forCryptography, black-box separations, multiparty computation, tamper resilience
AwardsFellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (2020)
Scientific career
FieldsCryptography
InstitutionsColumbia University
Doctoral advisorShafi Goldwasser

Tal Geula Malkin (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]

Education and career

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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

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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]

References

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  1. ^ Birth year from German National Library catalog entry, retrieved 2021-11-19
  2. ^ "Tal Malkin", Faculty, Columbia Engineering, 16 May 2018, retrieved 2021-11-19
  3. ^ a b c Curriculum vitae (PDF), Columbia University, October 2019, retrieved 2021-11-19
  4. ^ Tal Malkin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ "Tal Malkin: 2020 IACR Fellow", IACR Fellows, International Association for Cryptologic Research, retrieved 2021-11-19
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