Silvio Micali is an Italian computer scientist, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the founder of Algorand, a proof-of-stake blockchain cryptocurrency protocol. Micali's research at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial... Wikipedia
Born: 1954 (age 69 years), Palermo, Italy
Awards: Turing Award and Gödel Prize
Education: University of California, Berkeley (1982) and Sapienza University of Rome
Notable students: Mihir Bellare, Phillip Rogaway, Rafail Ostrovsky, and more
Fields: Computer Science; Cryptography
Thesis: Randomness versus Hardness (1983)