Mihir Bellare

Mihir Bellare is a cryptographer whose work has focused on the development of practical cryptography with proven-security guarantees. He obtained his BS at Caltech and his PhD at MIT. He worked at IBM Research before joining UCSD, where he is now a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He is a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the IACR, a recipient of the ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award, a recipient of the Levchin prize and a recipient of a Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science and Engineering. He has an h-index of 123 and over 76,000 citations as per Google Scholar. Cryptographic algorithms that he has co-developed include HMAC, RSA-OAEP, RSA-PSS, and DHIES. Many of his algorithms have been standardized by NIST and are used in TLS.