Tal Geula Malkin (born 1970) is an Israeli-American cryptographer who works as a professor of computer science at

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, where she heads the Cryptography Lab and the Data Science Institute Cybersecurity Center.

Education and career

Malkin graduated

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from

Bar-Ilan University Bar-Ilan University (BIU, he, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic ...

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 The Weizmann Institute of Science ( he, מכון ויצמן למדע ''Machon Vaitzman LeMada'') is a public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, 14 years before the State of Israel. It differs from other Israeli univ ...

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

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with the dissertation ''A Study of Secure Database Access and General Two-Party Computation'' supervised by

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. As a doctoral student, she also worked as an intern for

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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

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, "for foundational contributions, including black-box separations, multiparty computation, and tamper resilience, and for service to the IACR".

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