Some of Yael's most prominent works include the original paper on ring signatures [1], some important results around the Fiat-Shamir paradigm for signatures [2], the invention of One-Time Programs [3], some important work on interactive proofs [4], and a bunch of early fundamental (negative) results on obfuscation [5].
And these are just the things that spring to mind immediately, nowhere near the majority of her output.<p>[1] <a href="https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/RST01.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/RST01.pdf</a>
[2] <a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2003/034.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://eprint.iacr.org/2003/034.pdf</a>
[3] <a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/One-Time-Programs-Goldwasser-Kalai/042e104673c09f7085e0c1bd2ed969fdad308002" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/One-Time-Programs-Gold...</a>
[4] <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/2008-DelegatingComputation.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...</a>
[5] <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.0348" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.0348</a>
>Kalai was born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel, in an academic family. Her father, Yair Tauman, is an economist and game theorist. Her high school classes bored her — one report card documented something like 150 school absences, she recalls, as she preferred to spend her time water skiing and socializing. But her analytical skills were always there.<p>>“When my parents didn’t let me go out, often the only way to get my dad to agree was to tell him, ‘OK, give me a math riddle. As hard as you want, but if I solve, I go.’” She usually went.<p>wow
> I was a bit upset, because I thought, “I can’t believe I could have enjoyed this when I was much younger!”<p>Yea, wish I had known about Galois theory when I was younger got sucked into junk lit and computer games instead, now I have to wait until I retire or get some economic buffer from grinding to learn what I want.