Dr. Martín Abadi
Silvio Micali MEMBERS
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Palermo, Italy
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  • 2006
  • Computer Science and Information Technology (C.S.E)
More Info
  • 2006
  • Computer Science and Information Technology (C.S.E)
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Silvio Micali (born October 13, 1954) is an Italian computer scientist, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the founder of Algorand, a proof-of-stake blockchain cryptocurrency protocol.

Micali's research at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory centers on cryptography and information security.
 
Micali is best known for some of his fundamental early work on public-key cryptosystems, pseudorandom functions, digital signatures, oblivious transfer, secure multiparty computation, and is one of the co-inventors of zero-knowledge proofs.

In the early 2000s Micali also founded Peppercoin, a micro-payments system which was acquired in 2007. In 2017, Micali founded Algorand.
 
Micali won the Gödel Prize in 1993. He received the RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics in 2004.

In 2006, he was elected as member of the European Academy of Engineering.

In 2007, he was selected to be a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR).

He is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He received the Turing Award for the year 2012 along with Shafi Goldwasser for their work in the field of cryptography.

In 2015 the University of Salerno acknowledged his studies by giving him an honoris causa degree in Computer Science.

He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2017.