Cynthia Dwork

Cynthia Dwork, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, is known for inventing differential privacy, non-malleable cryptography, and proofs of work; for launching the theory of algorithmic fairness; and for seminal contributions in lattice-based cryptography, distributed computing, and validity in adaptive/exploratory data analysis. Her honors include the US National Medal of Science, the Hamming Medal, and the Dijkstra, Gödel, Knuth, and Kanellakis Awards, and the RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics. She is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society.