Shai Halevi
Senior Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Town of Mamaroneck, New York, United States
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Top SchoolShai Halevi is a Senior Principal Applied Scientist at AWS with over 20 years of research and engineering experience in cryptography, including a PhD from MIT and a prolific publication record of more than a hundred papers. A fellow and director of the IACR, he has won multiple best-paper awards (including Eurocrypt 2013) and the 2017 ACM-SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award, and has chaired flagship conferences like CRYPTO and ACM-CCS. His work bridges foundational cryptographic theory and practical systems: he is the main developer of HElib, a widely used open-source homomorphic encryption library, and created websubrev for conference submission workflows. Previously a long-time principal researcher at IBM and a research fellow at the Algorand Foundation, he combines deep academic influence with hands-on software delivery at scale. Based in Mamaroneck, NY, he’s known for translating advanced crypto primitives into usable tooling that advances both research and production deployments.
20 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (35)
crypto10
lattice10
fhe10
privacy10
public-key-cryptography10
algorand10
cryptography10
blockchain10
cpp10
privacy-enhancing-technologies10
encryption10
homomorphic-encryption10
consensus9
go9
cryptocurrency6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
shaih/websubrev
Apr 2006 - Sep 2021
Contributions:337 commits in 15 years 8 months
algorandfoundation/governance
Oct 2021 - Sep 2022
Technical specifications for the Algorand Foundation governance platform
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 11 months
algorand
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