Dahlia Malkhi

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Dahlia Malkhi
NationalityIsraeli-American
Alma mater Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Awards ACM Fellow
Scientific career
Fields Computer science
Doctoral advisor Danny Dolev

Dahlia Malkhi is an Israeli-American computer scientist who works on distributed systems and cryptocurrency.

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Education and career

Malkhi earned her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, finishing her Ph.D. under the supervision of Danny Dolev. [1] She taught at the Hebrew University until 2004, and then joined Microsoft Research at their Silicon Valley research center. In 2014, when Microsoft closed the center, she moved to VMware, a company working in cloud computing and platform virtualization. [2] [3]

She became a lead researcher at Novi Financial, a subsidiary of Meta Platforms (Facebook), and the lead maintainer of Meta's Libra cryptocurrency project. Libra later became Diem and Malkhi became chief technology officer at the Diem Association. In 2022, the Diem project shut down, [4] and she moved to Chainlink Labs as their chief research officer. [5]

Recognition

In 2011, Malkhi became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to fault-tolerant distributed computing." [6] In 2021, she received the Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing. [7]

Selected publications

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References

  1. Dahlia Malkhi at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. Employee profile, VMware Research, retrieved 2015-06-13.
  3. Perry, Tekla (January 23, 2015), "Former Microsoft Researchers Find New Homes at VMWare, Google, Apple, and Elsewhere", IEEE Spectrum
  4. "Facebook-funded cryptocurrency Diem winds down". BBC News. February 1, 2022. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
  5. Chainlink Labs Taps Former Diem CTO Dahlia Malkhi in Web3 Push, Tanzeel Akhtar, Bloomberg Europe Edition, March 29, 2022, retrieved 2022-07-12
  6. "Dahlia Malkhi", ACM Fellow, retrieved 2015-06-13.
  7. IEEE TCDP Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, retrieved 2022-07-12.