Shafi Goldwasser

Shafi Goldwasser is a scientific advisor to StarkWare. Shafi Goldwasser is the Director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, and the C. Lester Hogan Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. She is also the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, a professor of computer science and applied mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and a co-founder of Duality Technologies. Goldwasser received a BS in applied mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1979, and MS and PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley in 1984.

Goldwasser is a co-inventor of interactive proofs and zero-knowledge proofs and has received a number of awards for her numerous contributions to cryptography and computer science, including the ACM Turing Award (2012) and two Gödel Prizes (1993, 2001). She is a member of the AAAS, ACM, NAE, NAS, Israeli Academy of Science, London Mathematical Society, and Russian Academy of Science.