Dana Moshkovitz is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research is in Theoretical Computer Science. Much of it focuses on probabilistic checking of proofs and on the power of randomness in computation.
Dana did her PhD at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. Her thesis co-won the Nessyahu Prize for best math PhD thesis in Israel in 2009, and part of this work was awarded the FOCS 2008 Best paper. Dana went on to spend a couple of years at Princeton University and the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton. In 2010 she joined MIT as an assistant professor, where she received the Jerome Saltzer teaching award.