Dahlia Malkhi facts for kids

Dahlia Malkhi is an amazing Israeli-American computer scientist. She works on distributed systems and cryptocurrency. Imagine many computers working together to solve a big problem – that's a distributed system! And cryptocurrency is like digital money, such as Bitcoin. Dahlia is an expert in these exciting and important areas.

Her Journey in Computer Science

Dahlia Malkhi studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She earned her bachelor's, master's, and even her Ph.D. there. Her Ph.D. advisor was a smart professor named Danny Dolev.

After finishing her studies, Dahlia taught at the Hebrew University until 2004. Then, she joined Microsoft Research. This is a special place where scientists work on new ideas for computers. It was located in Silicon Valley, a famous area in California known for technology companies.

In 2014, Microsoft closed that research center. Dahlia then moved to VMware. This company helps computers share their power. This is called cloud computing and platform virtualization. It's like making one powerful computer act like many smaller ones.

Later, Dahlia became a lead researcher at Novi Financial. This company was part of Meta Platforms, which you might know as Facebook. She worked on Meta's digital money project called Libra. Libra later changed its name to Diem. Dahlia became the chief technology officer for the Diem Association.

In 2022, the Diem project ended. Dahlia then joined Chainlink Labs. Here, she became the chief research officer. As of 2023, she also became a professor of computer science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She continues to be a chief scientist at Chainlink Labs and advises different companies.

Awards and Recognition

Dahlia Malkhi has received important awards for her work. In 2011, she became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). This is a big honor! It means she was recognized for her important contributions to how distributed computer systems can keep working even if parts of them fail. This is called "fault-tolerant distributed computing."

In 2021, she received another special award. It was the Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing. This award recognized her excellent technical achievements in the field of distributed computing.