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Oded Goldreich

Oded Goldreich is an Israeli computer scientist and professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for his work on cryptography and computational complexity.

born 1957Foundations of cryptographyZero knowledge proofsPseudorandom functionsThe 2021 Israel Prize dispute

Born: 4 February 1957, Tel Aviv
Occupation: cryptographer, mathematician, computer scientist, editor
Education: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Oded Goldreich was born in 1957 in Tel Aviv

Oded Goldreich was born on February 4, 1957, in Tel Aviv. He studied computer science at the Technion, earning his bachelor's degree in 1980, his master's in 1982 and his doctorate in 1983 under Shimon Even.

From 1983 to 1986 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the Technion faculty in 1983 and became an associate professor in 1988. In 1994 he moved to the Weizmann Institute of Science, where he became a full professor in 1995.

His research covers pseudorandom functions, zero knowledge proofs, secure multi-party computation and property testing. He wrote several books, including the two volumes of Foundations of Cryptography. He won the Knuth Prize in 2017.

In 2021 a committee chose him for the Israel Prize in mathematics. Education ministers blocked the award over claims that he supported the BDS movement, which he denied. In March 2022 the High Court ruled that the prize must be awarded to him.

He is married to computer scientist Dana Ron, with whom he has worked on approximation algorithms.