Dahlia Malkhi
Professor
dahliamalkhi@ucsb.edu
5165 Harold Frank Hall
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Education
Ph.D. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
External Publications
Google Scholar
Awards
IEEE TCDP Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, 2021.
Vice-chair, ACM Charles P. "Chuck" Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award, 2020-present.
Advisory board member of Cryptoeconomic Systems, 2019-present.
Co-chair of the Simons Institute Advisory Board, 2019-2022.
ACM fellow, 2011.
Associate editor of the Distributed Computing Journal, 2002-2018.
Associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2014-2016.
IBM Faculty award recipient, 2003 and 2004.
German-Israeli Foundation (G.I.F.) Young Scientist career award, 2002.
Program chair for Usenix ATC 2019, LADIS 2012, Locality 2007, PODC 2006, Locality 2005, and DISC 2002.
Research Areas
Operating Systems and Distributed Systems
Security and Cryptography
Bio

Dahlia Malkhi is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science of UCSB since 2024. She heads the Foundations of Financial Technology lab. Her research over two decades spans broad aspects of reliability and security of distributed systems, recently with focus on blockchains and advances in financial technology. Her work resulted in over 200 publications as well as a strong impact on computing technology. 

Malkhi serves as Distinguished Scientist of Chainlink Labs  since 2022. From 2019 to 2022, she was the CTO at the Diem Association, and Lead Researcher at Novi Financial. In 2014, she co-founded VMware Research and became a Principal Researcher at VMware until 2019. Prior to that, Malkhi was a partner principal researcher at Microsoft Research, 2004-2014; an Associate Professor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a senior researcher at AT&T Labs.

 

Research

I enjoy working on questions that emerge from the engineering of real systems. I spent the past two decades working on bringing scientific innovation into fruition in several leading industrial settings. Below is a sampler of technologies I participated in creating. My personal homepage provides more detailed stories.