Cynthia Dwork

Cynthia Dwork
Cynthia Dwork
	Dwork lectures at Harvard Kennedy School in 2018
Born	June 27, 1958
Alma mater	Princeton University (BSE); Cornell University (PhD)
Known for	Differential privacy; Non-Malleable Cryptography; Proof-of-work
Awards	STOC 30-year Test-of-Time award (2022); RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics (2022); Paris Kanellakis Award (2021); Knuth Prize (2020); Hamming Medal (2020); Gödel Prize (2017); TCC Test-of-Time Award (2016); Dijkstra Prize (2007);
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Harvard University
Thesis	Bounds on Fundamental Problems in Parallel and Distributed Computation (1984)
Doctoral advisor	John Hopcroft
Website	dwork.seas.harvard.edu

Cynthia Dwork (born June 27, 1958) is an American computer scientist best known for her contributions to cryptography, distributed computing, and algorithmic fairness. She is one of the inventors of differential privacy and proof-of-work.

Dwork works at Harvard University, where she is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Affiliated Professor at Harvard Law School and Harvard's Department of Statistics.

Dwork was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for fundamental contributions to distributed algorithms and the security of cryptosystems.

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