{{short description|American and Israeli computer scientist and cryptographer}} {{use dmy dates|cs1-dates=ly|date=May 2020}} {{Use list-defined references|date=April 2026}} {{CS1 config|mode=cs2}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Elette Boyle | native_name = אלט בויל | native_name_lang = he | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = Yamhill, Oregon, United States | death_date = | death_place = | ethnicity = | field = Secret sharing<br>Digital signatures<br>Obfuscation | workplaces = Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya<br>Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | alma_mater = California Institute of Technology<br>Massachusetts Institute of Technology | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | academic_advisors = | website = | awards = }}
'''Elette Boyle''' ({{Langx|he|אלט בויל}}) is an American computer scientist and cryptographer, known for her research on secret sharing, digital signatures, and obfuscation. She is a professor of computer science at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, where she directs the Center for Foundations and Applications of Cryptographic Theory.{{r|idc}}
==Education and career== Boyle is originally from Yamhill, Oregon.{{r|yamhill}} She studied mathematics at the California Institute of Technology, competed for Caltech in the high jump, and was named Caltech's female scholar-athlete of the year for 2007–2008.
After graduating in 2008,{{r|caltech}} she completed her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the joint supervision of Shafi Goldwasser and Yael Tauman Kalai.{{r|idc}} Before joining the IDC Herzliya faculty, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and at Cornell University.{{r|idc}}
==Recognition== A paper by Boyle on secret sharing using homomorphic encryption was given the best paper award at the 2016 International Cryptology Conference (Crypto). She was an invited plenary speaker at Public Key Cryptography 2018.{{r|pkc}}
==References== <references>
<ref name=caltech>{{citation|url=https://www.gocaltech.com/sports/track/2008-09/news/Boyle_NCAA_PG_Scholar|title=Elette Boyle Earns NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship|work=Caltech Beavers|publisher=California Institute of Technology|date=June 25, 2008|accessdate=2020-05-21|archive-date=2010-12-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101215211954/http://gocaltech.com/sports/track/2008-09/news/Boyle_NCAA_PG_Scholar|url-status=dead}}</ref>
<ref name=idc>{{citation|url=https://cs.idc.ac.il/~elette/|title=Elette Boyle|publisher=IDC Herzliya Computer Science|accessdate=2020-05-21}}</ref>
<ref name=pkc>{{citation|url=https://pkc.iacr.org/2018/invited.html|title=Invited speakers|work=PKC 2018|accessdate=2020-05-21}}</ref>
<ref name=yamhill>{{citation |date=June 6, 2003 |title=Et Al for June 6: OSB names high school essay winners |url=https://djcoregon.com/news/2003/06/06/et-al-for-june-6/ |work=DJC Oregon}}</ref> </references>
==External links== *{{Google Scholar id|tLjnqu0AAAAJ}}
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