World-leaders in Cryptography: Moti Yung

Moti is a Security and Privacy Research Scientist with Google and an Adjunct Research Faculty member at the Computer Science Dep of Columbia University. He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1988. In 2010 he gave the IACR Distinguished Lecture and has also been  the recipient of the 2014 ACM’s SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation award, the 2014 ESORICS (European Symposium on Research in Computer Security) Outstanding Research award, an IBM Outstanding Innovation award, a Google OC award, and a Google founders’ award.   Moti has  also  received three test of time awards, including in 2024 for his 1998 paper On the Security of ElGamal Based Encryption, and in 2020 for his 1996 paper Cryptovirology: extortion-based security threats and countermeasures. In 2021, Moti  received the Women of the ENIAC Computer Pioneer Award. Overall, his main research focus areas in  Security, Privacy, and Cryptography.