Yael Kalai

Researcher, adjunct professor, MIT and Microsoft Research
Yael Tauman Kalai received her BA (1997) from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, MA (2001) under the supervision of Adi Shamir at the Weizmann Institute, and PhD (2006) under the supervision of Shafi Goldwasser at MIT. After postdoctoral positions at Microsoft Research and the Weizmann Institute, she is now a Principal Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and an adjunct professor at MIT. Her research focuses on cryptography.

Program Visits

Meta-Complexity, Spring 2023, Visiting Scientist
Proofs, Consensus, and Decentralizing Society, Fall 2019, Visiting Scientist and Program Organizer
Proofs, Consensus, and Decentralizing Society, Fall 2019, Visiting Scientist
Cryptography, Summer 2015, Visiting Scientist
Fields
Cryptography, interactive coding, distributed algorithm, privacy and security