Shai Halevi

Shai Halevi
Shai Halevi
Born	1966; Israel
Alma mater	Technion (B.A.); Technion (M.Sc.); MIT (Ph.D.);
Known for	Indistinguishability obfuscation; Homomorphic encryption; Random oracle;
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer science, cryptography
Institutions	IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Algorand Foundation
Thesis	Theory and Practice of Secret Commitment (1997)
Doctoral advisor	Silvio Micali
Website	alum.mit.edu/www/shaih

Shai Halevi (Hebrew: שי הלוי; born 1966) is a computer scientist who works on cryptography research at Amazon Web Services.

Born in Israel in 1966, Halevi received a B.A. and M.Sc. in computer science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in 1991 and 1993. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997, and then joined IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he was a principal research staff member until 2019. Between 2019 and 2023, he has been a research fellow at Algorand Foundation, a blockchain startup founded by Silvio Micali.

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