Cynthia Dwork, Ph.D.

Dwork is a professor of computer science at Harvard University, affiliated faculty at Harvard Law School, and a distinguished scientist at Microsoft. Her work has established the pillars of fault-tolerant distributed systems, modernized cryptography to the ungoverned interactions of the internet and the era of quantum computing, revolutionized privacy-preserving statistical data analysis, and launched the theory of algorithmic fairness. She is the recipient of numerous awards and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.