Silvio Micali
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Silvio Micali (born October 13, 1954) is an Italian-born computer scientist at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and a professor of computer science in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science since 1983. His research centers on the theory of cryptography and information security. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1982. Micali won the Gödel Prize in 1993. He is chief scientist of CoreStreet and co-founder (with Ron Rivest) of Peppercoin.
Micali is best known for his work in the areas of security definitions. He has written some key definitional papers on public-key cryptosystems, pseudorandom functions, and digital signatures. In addition, Micali is known as one of the discoverers of zero-knowledge proofs.
He was selected as an IACR Fellow in 2007.
