Ran Canetti

Ran Canetti is a professor of Computer Science in Boston University, where he directs the center for Reliable Information System and Cyber Security. He is a Fellow of the IACR and the ACM, and an incumbent of the RSA Award in Mathematics 2018. Canetti’s research interests span multiple aspects of cryptography and information security, with emphasis on the design, analysis and use of cryptographic protocols. His contributions include, among others, the framework of Universally Composable security and the HMAC message authentication protocol. Recently Canetti has been concentrating on the co-design of Law, policy and algorithms, with focus on accountability and transparency of algorithms, alongside data privacy.