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Oded Goldreich
Name	Oded Goldreich
Birth date	1957
Birth place	Jerusalem
Nationality	Israel
Fields	Computer science
Alma mater	Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Weizmann Institute of Science, Cornell University
Doctoral advisor	Michael Sipser
Known for	Cryptography, Computational complexity theory, Property testing, Probabilistically checkable proofs

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Oded Goldreich Oded Goldreich is an Israeli computer scientist noted for foundational work in cryptography, computational complexity theory, randomness, and property testing. He has held academic positions at the Weizmann Institute of Science and visited institutions such as MIT, Princeton University, and University of California, Berkeley. Goldreich's research influenced developments in zero-knowledge proofs, average-case complexity, and the theory of pseudorandomness.

Early life and education

Goldreich was born in Jerusalem and received early education that led him to study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Weizmann Institute of Science. He completed doctoral studies at Cornell University under the supervision of Michael Sipser, connecting him to a lineage including researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. His formative years intersected with developments at institutions such as Bell Labs and research groups linked to RSA (cryptosystem) origins and pioneers like Adi Shamir and Ronald Rivest.

Goldreich made major contributions to cryptography including work on zero-knowledge proofs, secure multi-party computation, and constructs related to the one-way function paradigm. He advanced theory in pseudorandom generators and hardness amplification, influencing research streams at FOCS and STOC conferences and groups at DIMACS. In computational complexity theory he examined relationships among NP, co-NP, and average-case analogues, connecting to questions raised by the Cook–Levin theorem and Levin's theory of average-case complexity. Goldreich was instrumental in formalizing property testing and sublinear algorithms, linking to the work of Ronitt Rubinfeld and Madhu Sudan, and to concepts in probabilistically checkable proofs that relate to the PCP theorem. His investigations into the foundations of randomness touched on Kolmogorov complexity traditions and constructions associated with Yao's test and Trevisan's extractor frameworks. Collaborators and interlocutors included researchers at Weizmann Institute of Science, Harvard University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of California, San Diego, and Yale University.

Goldreich received recognition including prizes and fellowships connected to organizations such as the ACM, IEEE, and research support from the Israel Science Foundation. His work has been cited in award contexts alongside recipients of the Turing Award, Gödel Prize, and memberships in academies such as the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and associations with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. He served on program committees for major conferences including CRYPTO, Eurocrypt, ICALP, and SODA.

Goldreich authored foundational texts and survey articles used across departments at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Weizmann Institute of Science, and graduate programs at Columbia University and University of Toronto. Notable works include monographs and papers cited in collections from Springer, proceedings of STOC, FOCS, and Crypto. His writings interact with seminal contributions by Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali, Leonid Levin, Sanjeev Arora, and Shmuel Safra.

Goldreich has been involved in public debates and controversies regarding academic positions and statements related to institutions such as Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Weizmann Institute of Science, and national policies in Israel. These disputes engaged communities at ACM, IEEE, and various universities including Tel Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, prompting commentary in forums where scholars from Princeton University, MIT, and Stanford University participate. Debates touched on issues raised during international academic boycotts and statements involving organizations like Human Rights Watch and international academic networks.