Martín Abadi | |
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Born | 1963 Argentina |
Residence | U.S |
Fields | Cryptography |
Institutions |
Google University of California, Santa Cruz |
Alma mater | Stanford University, 1987 |
Doctoral advisor | Zohar Manna |
Martín Abadi (born 1963) is an Argentinian computer scientist, currently working at Google. He earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1987 as a student of Zohar Manna.
He is well known for his work on computer security and on programming languages, including his paper (with Michael Burrows and Roger Needham) on the Burrows-Abadi-Needham logic for analyzing authentication protocols, and his book (with Luca Cardelli) A Theory of Objects, laying out formal calculi for the semantics of object-oriented programming languages.
He is a 2008 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. In 2011, he was a temporary professor at the Collège de France in Paris, teaching computer security.