Oded Goldreich

Oded Goldreich is Professor of Computer Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science and holds the Meyer W. Weisgal Professorial Chair. He has made numerous contributions to property testing and to the theory of computation at large. He is the author of several books, including the two-volume Foundations of Cryptography (Cambridge, Vol. 1 2008, Vol. 2 2009) and Computational Complexity: A Conceptual Perspective (Cambridge, 2008). He is an associate editor of the journal Computational Complexity, former editor of the Journal of Cryptology and SIAM Journal on Computing, and has been invited to speak at numerous conferences, including the 1994 International Congress of Mathematicians. Oded Goldreich was awarded the 2017 Donald E. Knuth prize for outstanding contributions to the foundation of computer science.