Silvio Micali

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Silvio Micali
Algorand
Semantic security
Verifiable secret sharing
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Computer Science
Cryptography
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto
University of Pennsylvania
Tsinghua University
MIT CS & AI Lab
ThesisRandomness versus Hardness (1983)
Doctoral advisorManuel Blum[2]
Doctoral students
Websitepeople.csail.mit.edu/silvio

Silvio Micali (born October 13, 1954) is an

Algorand, a proof-of-stake blockchain cryptocurrency protocol. Micali's research at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory centers on cryptography and information security.[4][5]

In 2012, he received the Turing Award for his work in cryptography.

Personal life

Micali graduated in mathematics at

PhD degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1982;[6] for research supervised by Manuel Blum.[2] Micali has been on the faculty at MIT, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, since 1983. He's also served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Toronto, and Tsinghua University.[7]
His research interests are cryptography, zero knowledge, pseudorandom generation, secure protocols, and mechanism design.

Career

Micali is best known for some of his fundamental early work on

secure multiparty computation, and is one of the co-inventors of zero-knowledge proofs.[8] His former doctoral students include Mihir Bellare, Bonnie Berger, Shai Halevi, Rafail Ostrovsky, Jing Chen, Rafael Pass, Chris Peikert, and Phillip Rogaway.[2][3]

In 2001 Micali co-founded CoreStreet Ltd, a software company originally based in Cambridge, Massachusetts which implemented Micali's patents involving checking the status of digital certificates (mainly applicable to large enterprise and government-sized digital and physical identity projects). Micali served as Chief Scientist at CoreStreet. CoreStreet was bought by ActivIdentity in 2009.[9]

In the early 2000s Micali also founded Peppercoin, a micro-payments system which was acquired in 2007.

In 2017, Micali founded Algorand.[10]

Awards and honors

Micali won the

National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). He is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[13] He received the Turing Award[1] for the year 2012 along with Shafi Goldwasser for their work in the field of cryptography.[14]
In 2015 the University of Salerno acknowledged his studies by giving him an honoris causa degree in Computer Science. He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2017.[15]

References

  1. ^
    S2CID 26769891. Closed access icon
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Silvio Micali at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ a b "CV" (PDF). people.csail.mit.edu.
  4. ^ Silvio Micali at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  5. ^ Silvio Micali author profile page at the ACM Digital Library
  6. ^ "Silvio's Home Page". people.csail.mit.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
  7. ^ "Sylvio Micali". amturing.acm. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  8. S2CID 7282320
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  9. ^ "CoreStreet Founder Wins Award".
  10. ^ "Silvio Micali | MIT CSAIL". www.csail.mit.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  11. ^ "1993 Gödel Prize". sigact.acm.org. Archived from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
  12. ^ "RSA conference award for mathematics". cseweb.ucsd.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-12-05. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  13. ^ "MIT CSAIL Theory of Computation". theory.csail.mit.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
  14. ^ "Goldwasser, Micali Receive ACM Turing Award for Advances in Cryptography". ACM. Archived from the original on 16 March 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
  15. ^ ACM Recognizes 2017 Fellows for Making Transformative Contributions and Advancing Technology in the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, December 11, 2017, retrieved 2017-11-13
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