M. Moti Yung

Moti Yung is a computer scientist, cryptographer and information security researcher. Yung’s areas of expertise include cryptovirology and kleptography. He is a a Security and Privacy Research Scientist with Google and an Adjunct Research Faculty at the Computer Science Department at Columbia University, where he earned his Ph.D.

Yung's contributions to research and development treat science and technology holistically: from the theoretical mathematical foundations, via conceptual mechanisms which typify computer science, to participation in the design and development of industrial products. His industry experience includes IBM Research, Certco/ Bankers Trust, RSA Laboratories (EMC), and Snap.

His published work (articles, patents, a book, and edited books) includes collaborations with more than 300 co-authors. Yung’s work has been predicting future needs of secure systems, and analyzing coming threats. These led to basic theoretical and applied notions, like: ransomware attacks, cryptosystems subversion, concurrent sessions in authentication protocols, strong (chosen ciphertext) secure encryption, and digital signatures from simplified cryptography.