Margarita Vald

Principal Cryptography Researcher, applied research, Intuit

Margarita is a security researcher at Intuit and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University. She has a broad interest in secure computation, data protection and applied security research. Her main focus is privacy enhancing technologies and provable security, including privacy for blockchains. Previously, she was a research fellow at Boston University hosted by Prof. Ran Canetti and Google PhD fellow. Margarita is an external faculty member at the Computer Science department, at Reichman University. Margarita possess extensive experience in presenting at a wide range of conferences, including prominent events such as the Real World Crypto Conference (RWC) and Grace Hooper Celebration (GHC)