Elette Boyle
Elette Boyle | |
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| Born | Yamhill, Oregon, United States |
| Nationality | American Israeli |
| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Secret sharing Digital signatures Obfuscation |
| Institutions | Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya Technion – Israel Institute of Technology |
Elette Boyle is an American and Israeli computer scientist and cryptographer, known for her research on secret sharing, digital signatures, and obfuscation. She is a professor of computer science at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, where she directs the Center for Foundations and Applications of Cryptographic Theory.[1]
Education and career
Boyle is originally from Yamhill, Oregon. She studied mathematics at the California Institute of Technology, competed for Caltech in the high jump, and was named Caltech's female scholar-athlete of the year for 2007–2008. After graduating in 2008,[2] she completed her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the joint supervision of Shafi Goldwasser and Yael Tauman Kalai.[1] Before joining the IDC Herzliya faculty, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and at Cornell University.[1]
Recognition
A paper by Boyle on secret sharing using homomorphic encryption was given the best paper award at the 2016 International Cryptology Conference (Crypto). She was an invited plenary speaker at Public Key Cryptography 2018.[3]
References
- ^ a b c Elette Boyle, IDC Herzliya Computer Science, retrieved 2020-05-21
- ^ "Elette Boyle Earns NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship", Caltech Beavers, California Institute of Technology, 25 June 2008, retrieved 2020-05-21
- ^ "Invited speakers", PKC 2018, retrieved 2020-05-21
External links
- Elette Boyle publications indexed by Google Scholar
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- Living people
- People from Yamhill, Oregon
- American computer scientists
- American women computer scientists
- Israeli computer scientists
- Israeli women computer scientists
- California Institute of Technology alumni
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
- Academic staff of Reichman University
- Theoretical computer scientists
- Modern cryptographers
- 21st-century American scientists
- 21st-century American women scientists
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American women mathematicians
- 21st-century women mathematicians
- American women mathematicians
- American cryptographers
- Israeli cryptographers
- Israeli women mathematicians
- American women cryptographers