Summary
Shai 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