Yael Kalai

Yael Kalai PhD ’06 joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as a professor in September 2024. Her research interests include cryptography, the theory of computation, and security and privacy. Kalai currently focuses on both the theoretical and real-world applications of cryptography, including work on succinct and easily verifiable noninteractive proofs. She earned a BS from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an MS from the Weizmann Institute of Science, and a PhD from MIT.