Shafi Goldwasser
Academician, International Academy of Innovation Sciences
RSA Professor, University of California
Election motivation
For pioneering contributions to the introduction of probabilistic encryption, interactive zero knowledge protocols, elliptic curve primality testings, hardness of approximation proofs for combinatorial problems, and combinatorial property testing.
Field of research
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Main Honors
Recipient of the ACM Turing Award for 2012
Recipient of the Gödel Prize in 1993
Awarded the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award (1996), the RSA award in mathematics (1998), the ACM Athena award for women in computer science (2008), the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science (2010), the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (2011), the Barnard College Medal of Distinction (2016), and the Suffrage Science Award (2016).
Member of the AAAS, ACM, NAE, NAS, Israeli Academy of Science, London Mathematical Society, and Russian Academy of Science.
Academician, International Academy of Innovation Sciences.