Daniel (Danny) Dolev (Hebrew: דני דולב) is an Israeli computer scientist who studies cryptography and distributed computing. He has the Berthold Badler Chair in Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is part of the scientific council of the European Research Council.

Biography

Dolev completed his undergraduate studies at the Hebrew University and received a bachelor's degree in 1971. He later attended the Weizmann Institute of Science, where he earned a master's degree in 1973 and a doctorate in 1979 with the guidance of Eli Shamir. After completing research work at Stanford University and IBM Research, he became a teacher at the Hebrew University in 1982. From 1987 to 1993, he held a position at the IBM Almaden Research Center while continuing his role at the Hebrew University. Between 1998 and 2002, he led the Institute of Computer Science and later became the director of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at the Hebrew University. In 2011, he became the first Israeli to serve on the Scientific Council of the European Research Council.

Research

Danny Dolev has written many papers that many people reference. His research includes topics like public-key cryptography, non-malleable cryptography, consensus in asynchronous distributed systems, atomic broadcasting, high availability and high-availability clusters, and Byzantine fault tolerance. The Dolev–Yao model was created together by Danny Dolev and Andrew Yao.

Awards and honors

In 2007, Dolev was chosen as an ACM Fellow for his work on making computer systems that can keep working even when parts fail. In 2011, Dolev and his co-authors Hagit Attiya and Amotz Bar-Noy received the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing for their research on developing ways to share information between computers using messages.