Dahlia Malkhi is an Israeli-American computer scientist who works on

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s and

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Education and career

Malkhi earned her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

, finishing her Ph.D. under the supervision of

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. She taught at the Hebrew University until 2004, and then joined

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at their

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research center. In 2014, when Microsoft closed the center, she moved to

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, a company working in

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and

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.Employee profile
VMware Research, retrieved 2015-06-13. She became a lead researcher at Novi Financial, a subsidiary of

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(Facebook), and the lead maintainer of Meta's Libra

project. Libra later became Diem and Malkhi became chief technology officer at the Diem Association. In 2022, the Diem project shut down, and she moved to Chainlink Labs as their chief research officer.

Recognition

In 2011, Malkhi became a

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of the

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"for contributions to fault-tolerant distributed computing." In 2021, she received the Technical Achievement Award of the

IEEE Computer Society The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operati ...

Technical Committee on Distributed Processing.IEEE TCDP Outstanding Technical Achievement Award
retrieved 2022-07-12.

Selected publications

*. Preliminary version in ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, STOC '97, . *. *.

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Malkhi, Dahlia Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American women computer scientists American computer scientists Israeli women computer scientists Israeli computer scientists Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Computer Science & Engineering alumni Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery American women academics 21st-century American women