Curriculum Vitae

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

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

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

• 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

Program committee member of

• ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS) 2025 (Outstanding PC memebr award), 2026

  • Also a member of the best-paper committee 2025.

• Primacy Enhancing Technology symposium (PETs) 2023 (Exceptional reviewer), 2024, 2025, 2027

• FHE.org conference (FHE.org) 2022, 2023, 2024

• Workshop on Encrypted Computing & Applied Homomorphic Cryptography (WAHC) 2024, 2025

• Cyber Security, Cryptology and Machine Learning (CSCML) 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027 

• Workshop on Cognitive Architectures (CogArch) 2022 

• The Shadow Program Committee of (Shadow IEEE S&P) 2021

Ethical committee member of

• Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2023, 2024, 2025

Guest Editor

• ITU Journal, Special issue on privacy and security challenges of generative AI (2025).

External reviewer for 

• • IEEE Security and Privacy magazine

  • IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)

  • IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (TETCI)

  • Springer, Wireless Networks

  • Springer, Journal of Cryptographic Engineering (JCEN)

  • Springer, Journal of Cryptology

  • World Conference on Information Security Applications (WISA) 2020 

  • The Trojan Horse Award, part of IEEE S&P 2021

Other activities

2022

• An organizing committee member of CogArch 2022

• IBM representative at the steering committee of HEBench