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Yael Tauman Kalai is a pioneering theoretical computer scientist who\u2019s won impressive awards and changed the way people think about the internet. But as a kid, she wasn\u2019t exactly a model student.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a troublemaker,\u201d she said. \u201cI was basically \u2014 not quite, but basically \u2014 kicked out of high school.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kalai<\/a> was born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel, in an academic family. Her father, Yair Tauman, is an economist and game theorist. Her high school classes bored her \u2014 one report card documented something like 150 school absences, she recalls, as she preferred to spend her time water skiing and socializing. But her analytical skills were always there.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen my parents didn\u2019t let me go out, often the only way to get my dad to agree was to tell him, \u2018OK, give me a math riddle. As hard as you want, but if I solve, I go.\u2019\u201d She usually went.<\/p>\n

Her dormant love of math finally awakened in college, when she began to recognize its beauty. Eventually, she discovered she could put this math to use with computers and, specifically, securing information. Now, her work straddles the fields of math and computer science, and her ideas have been foundational to how we protect and verify computation in the digital age. For the past two decades, she has worked to ensure the integrity of our smartphones, cloud connections and even cryptocurrencies. Now a researcher at Microsoft and an adjunct professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she recently won the Association for Computer Machinery\u2019s prestigious ACM Prize in Computing for \u201cbreakthroughs in verifiable delegation of computation and fundamental contributions to cryptography.\u201d Her latest work also looks to the future, as she considers on how quantum computers may affect the security landscape.<\/p>\n

Quanta <\/em>spoke with Kalai about leaking secrets, verifying the cloud and the funkiness of quantum computing. The interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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