CyLab Seminar: Dahlia Malkhi

April 21, 2025

12:00 p.m. ET

Zoom or CIC room 4105, Panther Hollow

Dahlia Malkhi

*Please note: this CyLab seminar is open only to partners and Carnegie Mellon University faculty, students, and staff.

Speaker:
Dahlia Malkhi
Professor
Department of Computer Science - University of California, Santa Barbara

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Abstract:
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Bio:
Dr. Malkhi is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science of UCSB since 2024, where she is heading the Foundations of Financial Technology (“FifTech”) lab.

Dr. Malkhi’s work over two decades brought scientific innovation into fruition in several industrial leadership positions. Currently, Malkhi serves as a Distinguished Scientist of Chainlink Labs, and a consultant to Espresso Systems, Nubit, and Spacecoin. Formerly, she was the CTO of Diem Association and Lead Researcher at Novi Financial from 2019 to 2022. In 2014, she co-founded VMware Research and became a Principal Researcher at VMware until June 2019. Prior to that, Malkhi was a partner principal researcher at Microsoft Research, 2004-2014; a tenured Associate Professor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a senior researcher at AT&T Labs.

Her research spans broad aspects of reliability and security of distributed systems, recently with focus on blockchains and advances in financial technology. Her work resulted in over 200 publications as well as a strong impact on computing technology. A selected sample of technologies she participated in creating includes:

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