Home People Yael Kalai People FacultyFaculty AI+DFaculty CSFaculty EEFaculty EmeritusLecturers Leadership Staff Instructors Ellen Swallow Richards (1873) Professor; Professor of EECS, [CS] tauman@mit.edu 617-253-5851 Office: 32-G594 Website Research Areas Security and CryptographyTheory of Computation Latest News More News March 12, 2026 2026 MacVicar Faculty Fellows named MIT professors Amos Winter and Nikolai Zeldovich are honored for exceptional undergraduate teaching. March 19, 2025 Security scheme could protect sensitive data during cloud computation MIT researchers crafted a new approach that could allow anyone to run operations on encrypted data without decrypting it first. July 25, 2024 Department of EECS names new chair recipients The new chairs became effective July 1. April 12, 2023 Yael Tauman Kalai awarded the 2022 ACM Prize in Computing The prize recognizes early-to-mid-career computer scientists who have made key research contributions to the field, such as Kalai’s influence on modern cryptographic practices. September 30, 2022 2022-23 EECS Faculty Award Roundup This ongoing listing of awards and recognitions won by our faculty is added to all year, beginning in September.