Professor Shafi Goldwasser

Professor Goldwasser was the recipient of ACM Turing Award for 2012. She was also the recipient of the Gödel Prize in 1993 and another in 2001 for her work on interactive proofs and connections to hardness of approximation, and was awarded the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award (1996), the RSA award in mathematics (1998), the ACM Athena award for women in computer science (2008), the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science (2010), the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (2011), the Barnard College Medal of Distinction (2016),  the Suffrage Science Award (2016), the  BBVA Frontier Knowledge Award (2017), the Loreal Unesco International Women in Science Award(2021).

She is a member of the AAAS, ACM, NAE, NAS, Israeli Academy of Science, London Mathematical Society, the Russian Academy of Science and a foreign member of the Royal Society. She holds honorary degrees from Oxford University, Carnegie Mellon University, Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv University, Ben Gurion University, University of Haifa and University of Waterloo.