Associate Professor, Bar-Ilan University; Co-founder, Ligero

Carmit Hazay is an associate professor in the Computer Engineering Department at Bar-Ilan University, Israel and Deputy Director of the Cybercenter. She received her PhD at Bar-Ilan University, served as a postdoctoral researcher at Weizmann Institute of Science and IDC Israel, and at Aarhus University, Denmark. Carmit’s research lies in foundations of cryptography with special focus on secure multiparty computation (MPC) and zero-knowledge proofs, both theory and practice. She co-authored the book ‘Efficient Secure Two-Party Protocols — Techniques and Constructions’. She is also the co-founder of Ligero Inc. that provides MPC-as-a-service.