Dahlia Malkhi () is an Israeli-American computer scientist, who works on

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s and

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Education and career

Malkhi earned her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public university, public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. ...

, finishing her Ph.D. under the supervision of

Danny Dolev Daniel (Danny) Dolev () is an Israeli computer scientist known for his research in cryptography and distributed computing. He holds the Berthold Badler Chair in Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a member of the scientif ...

. She taught at the Hebrew University until 2004, and then joined

Microsoft Research Microsoft Research (MSR) is the research subsidiary of Microsoft. It was created in 1991 by Richard Rashid, Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold with the intent to advance state-of-the-art computing and solve difficult world problems through technologi ...

at their

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research center. In 2014, when Microsoft closed the center, she moved to VMware, a company working in

cloud computing Cloud computing is "a paradigm for enabling network access to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable physical or virtual resources with self-service provisioning and administration on-demand," according to International Organization for ...

and

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.Employee profile
VMware Research, retrieved 2015-06-13. She became a lead researcher at Novi Financial, a subsidiary of

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(

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), and the lead maintainer of Meta's Libra

project. Libra later became Diem and Malkhi became chief technology officer at the Diem Association. In 2022, the Diem project shut down, and she moved to Chainlink Labs as their chief research officer. As of 2023, she joined the University of California, Santa Barbara, as a professor of computer science; and remains a chief scientist at Chainlink Labs and an advisor to various industries.

Recognition

In 2011, Malkhi became a

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of the

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"for contributions to fault-tolerant distributed computing." In 2021, she received the Technical Achievement Award of the

IEEE Computer Society IEEE Computer Society (commonly known as the Computer Society or CS) is a technical society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) dedicated to computing, namely the major areas of hardware, software, standards and people ...

Technical Committee on Distributed Processing.IEEE TCDP Outstanding Technical Achievement Award
retrieved 2022-07-12.

Selected publications

*. Preliminary version in ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, STOC '97, . *. *.

References

External links

* * https://cs.ucsb.edu/index.php/people/faculty/dahlia-malkhi * {{DEFAULTSORT:Malkhi, Dahlia Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American women computer scientists American computer scientists Israeli women computer scientists Israeli computer scientists Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Computer Science & Engineering alumni Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2011 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery American women academics 21st-century American women