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Experience
Experience
2021 - Today: Staff Research Scientist: Science of Security, Privacy & Cryptography, IBM Research - Israel. Member of the Security for AI team.
2020 - 2021: Senior Applied Scientist - Cryptography, Amazon. Member of the AWS Cryptographic Algorithms team and a member of the Crypto Bar Raisers program.
2017 – 2019: Applied Scientist - Cryptography, Amazon. Member of the AWS Cryptographic Algorithms team and a member of the Crypto Bar Raisers program.
2014 - 2017: Software Engineer, Intel Israel. Member of the Intel SGX development team. Code implementation of cryptographic algorithms (C and assembly) and performance optimizations for existing and future architectures.
2009 - 2014: Software Engineer, Intel Israel. CAD software for VLSI engineers. Performance optimizations techniques: software flow analysis (itcl/itk/perl), Multi-Processing/Multi-Threads techniques. Graph optimizations (C++), MySQL server optimizations (SQL), Open-CL optimizations (CPU/GPU).
Education
Education
2015 - 2020: Ph.D. Applied Cryptography, Department of Mathematics, University of Haifa.
Thesis: Accelerating Cryptographic Algorithms Using Advanced and Future Architectures
2009 - 2014: M.Sc. Operations Research and Optimization, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion I.I.T.
Thesis: Cyclic Routing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Technologies: SMT solvers (Microsoft Z3, Yices); MILP (Mosek over MATLAB); Timed automata (UPPAAL).
1999 - 2004: B.A., Computer Science and Business Management - Systems and Applications. The Open University of Israel (degree completed during high school studies).
Certificates
Certificates
Dec 2020: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) Specialization, Coursera, 4ECJ2M5YLVPN
Sep 2020: Deep Learning Specialization, Coursera, WCSGP6BVNDSQ
Aug 2020: Natural Language Processing with Classification and Vector Spaces, Coursera, EVSAYXPL5B3M
Aug 2020: Natural Language Processing with Probabilistic Models, Coursera, 8DWQX2YXUQEU
2006 - 2007: Cisco Network Certification (CCNA). Exp 2010. Operating CISCO technologies and network design, network protocols (TCP/IP, RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, Frame relay, PPP, ISDN, DDR and X.25).
Awards
Awards
2025: AsiaCCS 2025 Outstanding PC memebr award
2023: PoPETs 2023 Exceptional reviewer award
May 2018: Caesarea Rothschild Institute (CRI), Uri Natan Peled memorial prize for outstanding interdisciplinary studies in Computer Science and Mathematics.
Mar 2017: Intel, Middleware & Manageability Division (EMMD), eMMD Recognition Award: For Excellent results and cross team collaboration during a Crypto Hackathon
Jul 2015: Intel, Platform Engineering Group (PEG), Division Recognition Award (DRA): For prototyping new ISA, in record time, [..] on SKL silicon and exercising applications and OS interaction under stressed system activity including nested functions, interrupts and page faults. [...] the team had proved new ISA OS transparency properties and programming model correctness.
Apr 2012: Intel, Technology Manufacturing Group (TMG), Department Recognition Award (DRA): For increasing Big RLS PV turns from 3 to 5 per week and speeding up design convergence.
Professional Services
Professional Services
Program committee member of
Program committee member of
ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS) 2025 (Outstanding PC memebr award),
Also a member of the best-paper committee.
Primacy Enhancing Technology symposium (PETs) 2023 (Exceptional reviewer), 2024, 2025
Workshop on Encrypted Computing & Applied Homomorphic Cryptography (WAHC) 2024
Cyber Security, Cryptology and Machine Learning (CSCML) 2023, 2024, 2025
Workshop on Cognitive Architectures (CogArch) 2022
The Shadow Program Committee of (Shadow IEEE S&P) 2021
Ethical committee member of
Ethical committee member of
Guest Editor
Guest Editor
External reviewer for
External reviewer for
Other activities
Other activities
2022
An organizing committee member of CogArch 2022
IBM representative at the steering committee of HEBench
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