Tal MalkinView profile
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Tal Malkin is a Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, where she directs the Cryptography Lab and was the inaugural chair of the Cybersecurity Center at the Data Science Institute. She holds a BS in Math and Computer Science from Bar-Ilan University, an MS in Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute of Science, and a PhD in Computer Science from MIT. Her research focuses on the foundations of cryptography, with connections to complexity theory, information theory, and machine learning. She has made significant contributions to secure computation, private search, non-malleable codes, leakage and tamper resilient cryptography, and strong public key encryption. She is a member of Columbia's Theory Group and Systems Security Center. Professor Malkin has chaired major conferences including CRYPTO, CCS, TCC, ACNS, and CT-RSA, and chairs the Theory of Cryptography Conference steering committee. She has served on numerous program and steering committees for leading cryptography and theoretical computer science conferences. IACR Fellow NSF CAREER Award recipient Multiple industry faculty awards (JP Morgan, IBM, Amazon, Google) Avanessians Diversity Award Presidential Teaching Award at Columbia University She has advised numerous PhD students whose research spans secure computation, attribute-based encryption, symbolic model learning, and cryptographic complexity. Her teaching includes advanced cryptography courses covering information-theoretic cryptography, homomorphic encryption, lattices, data privacy, and secure multiparty computation.
