Adi Shamir#
| Membership Number: | 2488 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2007 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ISRAEL |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/profile/scientists/shamir-profile.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1984 — Professor at Department of App1ied Mathematics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
- 1980-1984: Associate Professor at Department of Applied Matliematics, The Weizmann Institute of Science,Rehovot,Israel
- 1978-1980- Assistant Professor at Department of Mathematics, MIT, USA.
- 1977-1978- Instructor at Department of Mathematics, MIT, USA
- 1976-1976- Postdoc, Department of Computer Science at University of Warwick,England
Fields of Scholarship
- Cryptography
Honours and Awards
- Kennedy Prize (1975), The Feinberg Graduate School
- Best Paper award (1978), IEEE Information Theory Group, USA
- Special award (1982), Israeli Information Processing Society
- Lubell Prize (1983), The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
- Erdos Prize (1983), The Israeli Mathematical Society
- Baker Prize, (1986). IEEE, USA
- UAP Scientific Prize (1990), UAP, France
- Rothschild Prize (1994), Israel
- PIUS X1 Gold Medal (1992), the Vatican's Pontifical Academy
- Kanellakis Prize ( 1997), Association for Computing Machinery, USA
- Elected to the Israeli Academy of Science (1998)
- Kobayashi Prize (2000). IEEE. USA
- Turing Award (2002), Association for Computing Machinery. USA
- Docteur Honoris Causa (2003), Ecole Normale Superieure, France
- Elected Fellow (2004), International Association of Cryptographic Research
- Elected to the US National Academy of Sciences (2005)
- Israel Prize (2008)
- Honorary Doctorate from the University of Waterloo (2009)
