Mihir Bellare

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Mihir Bellare
OccupationProfessor
Board member ofSan Diego Privacy Advisory Board
Awards
Academic background
Alma materCaltech (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
ThesisRandomness in Interactive Proofs (1991)
Doctoral advisorSilvio Micali[1]
Academic work
DisciplineComputer science
Sub-disciplineCryptography
InstitutionsUniversity of California San Diego
Notable ideasRandom oracle model

Mihir Bellare is a cryptographer and professor at the University of California San Diego. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2] He has published several seminal papers in the field of cryptography (notably in the area of provable security), many of which were co-written with Phillip Rogaway. Bellare has published a number of papers in the field of Format-Preserving Encryption. His students include Michel Abdalla, Chanathip Namprempre, Tadayoshi Kohno and Anton Mityagin. Bellare is one of the authors of skein.

In 2003 Bellare was a recipient of RSA Conference's Sixth Annual Award for outstanding contributions in the field of mathematics for his research in cryptography.[3] In 2013 he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.[4] In 2019 he was awarded Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography for his outstanding contributions to the design and analysis of real-world cryptosystems, including the development of random oracle model, modes of operation, HMAC, and models for key exchange.[5]

Bellare's papers cover topics including:

On September 14, 2022, Bellare was appointed by the Mayor of San Diego to the city's Privacy Advisory Board.[6][2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Mihir Bellare at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ a b Gloria, Todd (2022-09-14). "Memorandum | Appointments to the Privacy Advisory Board" (PDF). The City of San Diego. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-10-20.
  3. ^ "RSA Conference Announces Sixth Annual Award Recipients". www.rsa.com. Archived from the original on January 7, 2010.
  4. ^ "ACM Names Fellows for Computing Advances that Are Transforming Science and Society" (Press release). Association for Computing Machinery. Archived from the original on 2014-07-22. Retrieved 2013-12-10.
  5. ^ "Levchin Prize Names Winners at the 2019 Real-World Crypto Conference". AP NEWS. 2019-01-09. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
  6. ^ "OnBoard2 | City of San Diego". The City of San Diego. Archived from the original on 2023-03-08. Retrieved 2023-03-08.

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