| 1983-1985 |
Bantrell Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science |
| 1985-2000 |
Research Staff Member, IBM Almaden Research Center |
| 2000-2001 |
Staff Fellow, Compaq Systems Research Center |
| 2001-2023 |
Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley Campus; Title on resignation: Distinguished Scientist |
| 2017-2022 |
Radcliffe Alumnae Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study |
| 2017- |
Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering |
| 2007 |
Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize, for Consensus in the Presence of Partial Synchrony, by Dwork, Lynch, and Stockmeyer |
| 2008 |
Member of the National Academy of Engineering |
| 2008 |
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| 2014 |
Member of the National Academy of Sciences |
| 2015 |
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery |
| 2016 |
Theory of Cryptography Conference Test of Time Award, for Calibrating Noise to Sensitivity in Private Data Analysis, by Dwork, McSherry, Nissim, and Smith |
| 2016 |
Fellow of the American Philosophical Society |
| 2017 |
Gödel Prize, for Calibrating Noise to Sensitivity in Private Data Analysis, by Dwork, McSherry, Nissim, and Smith |
| 2020 |
Donald E. Knuth Prize |
| 2020 |
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Richard W. Hamming Medal |
| 2022 |
ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award, for fundamental contributions to the development of differential privacy, with Blum, Dinur, McSherry, Nissim, and Smith |
| 2022 |
RSA Conference Award for Excellence in Mathematics, co-sponsored by the International Association of Cryptologic Research (IACR) |
| 2022 |
30-Year Test-of-Time Award, STOC, for Non-Malleable Cryptography, Dolev, Dwork, and Naor |
| 2023 |
Test-of-Time Award, ICML, for Learning Fair Representations, R. Zemel, Y. Wu, K. Swersky, T. Pitassi, and C. Dwork |
| 2024 |
National Medal of Science |
