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
- 1975 Kennedy Prize, The Feinberg Graduate School
- 1978 Best Paper award, IEEE Information Theory Group, USA
- 1982 Special award, Israeli Information Processing Society
- 1983 Lubell Prize, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
- 1983 Erdos Prize, The Israeli Mathematical Society
- 1986 Baker Prize, IEEE, USA
- 1990 UAP Scientific Prize, UAP, France
- 1992 PIUS X1 Gold Medal, the Vatican's Pontifical Academy
- 1994 Rothschild Prize, Israel
- 1997 Kanellakis Prize, Association for Computing Machinery, USA
- 1998 Elected to the Israeli Academy of Science
- 2000 Kobayashi Prize, IEEE, USA
- 2002 Turing Award (2002), Association for Computing Machinery, USA
- 2003 Docteur Honoris Causa, Ecole Normale Superieure, France
- 2004 Elected Fellow, International Association of Cryptographic Research
- 2005 Elected to the US National Academy of Sciences
- 2008 Israel Prize
- 2009 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Waterloo
- 2017 (33rd) Japan Prize in the field of Electronics, Information and Communication "for his contribution to information security through pioneering research on cryptography"
- 2017 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
- 2018 Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS)
- 2019 Member of the American Philosophical Society
- 2024 Wolf Prize in Mathematics
"for his fundamental contributions to Mathematical Cryptography"
