Cynthia Dwork

Cynthia Dwork
Dwork lectures at Harvard Kennedy School in 2018
Born	(1958-06-27) June 27, 1958 (age 66)
Alma mater	Princeton University (BSE) Cornell University (PhD)
Known for	Differential privacy Non-Malleable Cryptography Proof-of-work
Awards	National Medal of Science (2025) STOC 30-year Test-of-Time award (2022) RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics (2022) Paris Kanellakis Award (2021) Knuth Prize (2020) Hamming Medal (2020) Gödel Prize (2017) TCC Test-of-Time Award (2016) Dijkstra Prize (2007)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science[1]
Institutions	IBM Research Microsoft Research Harvard University
Thesis	Bounds on Fundamental Problems in Parallel and Distributed Computation (1984)
Doctoral advisor	John Hopcroft[2][3]
Website	dwork.seas.harvard.edu

Cynthia Dwork (born June 27, 1958^{[citation needed]}) is an American computer scientist renowned for her contributions to cryptography, distributed computing, and algorithmic fairness. She is one of the inventors of differential privacy and proof-of-work.

Dwork works at Harvard University, where she is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Affiliated Professor at Harvard Law School and Harvard's Department of Statistics.