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Tal Rabin

Tal Rabin is an Israeli-American computer scientist who works in cryptography and is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

born 1962Cryptography researchDigital signature schemesLeading IBM's cryptography groupFounding the Women in Theory workshop

Occupation: computer scientist
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Tal Rabin was born in 1962 in Newton

Rabin was born in 1962 in Massachusetts and grew up in Jerusalem, where she attended the Rehavia Gymnasium. Her father, Michael Rabin, is a computer scientist, and her mother, Ruth Rabin, headed the international department of the State Attorney's Office. She and her father wrote a paper together, published in 1998.

She earned her BSc in 1986, her MSc in 1988 and her PhD in 1994 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, under Professor Michael Ben-Or. From 1994 to 1996 she was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT with support from the US National Science Foundation.

She joined the cryptography group at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center and became its head in 1997. She later led research at the Algorand Foundation, and in 2020 she joined the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a Director at Amazon Web Services.

Her research covers cryptography and network security, including digital signature schemes, secret sharing and secure distributed protocols. She holds 5 US patents. She founded and organizes the Women in Theory workshop for graduate students and takes part in public science events.

She lives in the United States and is the mother of 2 daughters.