Ronald L. Rivest

Ronald L. Rivest is an MIT Institute Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Professor Rivest He is a member of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), a member of the lab’s Theory of Computation Group and a founder of its Cryptography and Information Security Group. He is also a founder of RSA Data Security (now called RSA Security and a unit of Dell) and of Peppercoin. Professor Rivest has research interests in cryptography, computer and network security, electronic voting, and algorithms. He is an ACM Turing Award winner and a member of both the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences.