Moni Naor

Moni Naor is a professor of Computer Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel specializing in Cryptography and Complexity where he has been since 1993. He studied Computer Science at the Technion and received his PhD from the University of California Berkeley. He is the recipient of the Godel Award in 2014 and the Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award from the ACM in 2017, and is a Fellow of the IACR and the ACM. He developed notions that are at the heart of today's cryptography such as non-malleability, untraceable electronic cash, broadcast encryption, tracing traitor, the Naor-Reingold PRFs and proofs-of-work as well as the memory bound version.