| Tal Malkin | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1970 |
| 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 |
Tal Geula Malkin (born 1970) 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.
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, 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.
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.
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".
References
- Birth year from German National Library catalog entry, retrieved 2021-11-19
- "Tal Malkin", Faculty, Columbia Engineering, 16 May 2018, retrieved 2021-11-19
- ^ Curriculum vitae (PDF), Columbia University, October 2019, retrieved 2021-11-19
- Tal Malkin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- "Tal Malkin: 2020 IACR Fellow", IACR Fellows, International Association for Cryptologic Research, retrieved 2021-11-19
External links
- Home page
- Tal Malkin publications indexed by Google Scholar
- 1970 births
- Living people
- American computer scientists
- American women computer scientists
- American cryptographers
- Israeli computer scientists
- Israeli women computer scientists
- Israeli cryptographers
- Bar-Ilan University alumni
- Weizmann Institute of Science alumni
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- Columbia University faculty
- 21st-century American women