Yael Tauman Kalai is a pioneering theoretical computer scientist who’s won impressive awards and changed the way people think about the internet. But as a kid, she wasn’t exactly a model student. “I was a troublemaker,” she said. “I was basically — not quite, but basically — kicked out of high school.” Kalai was born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel, in an academic family. Her father, Yair Tauman...
