Oded Goldreich

Oded Goldreich
עודד גולדרייך
Goldreich at Oberwolfach in 2015
Born (1957-02-04) 4 February 1957 (age 67)
NationalityIsraeli
Alma materTechnion,
Weizmann Institute
Known forZero-knowledge proof
SpouseDana Ron
AwardsKnuth Prize (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsCryptography
Doctoral advisorShimon Even
Doctoral studentsBoaz Barak
Ran Canetti
Yehuda Lindell
Websitewww.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~oded/

Oded Goldreich (Hebrew: עודד גולדרייך; b. 1957) is a professor of computer science at the faculty of mathematics and computer science of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. His research interests lie within the theory of computation and are, specifically, the interplay of randomness and computation, the foundations of cryptography, and computational complexity theory. He won the Knuth Prize in 2017[1] and was selected in 2021 to receive the Israel Prize in mathematics.

  1. ^ "2017 Knuth prize is Awarded to Oded Goldreich" (PDF) (Press release). ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 June 2017. Retrieved 23 June 2017.