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Moni Naor

Moni Naor is an Israeli computer scientist and professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for his work on the foundations of cryptography.

born 1961Foundations of cryptographyVisual cryptography with Adi ShamirNon-malleable cryptographyProof of work

Born: 24 March 1961
Occupation: mathematician, computer scientist, engineer, university teacher
Education: University of California, Berkeley, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Hebrew Reali School

Moni Naor was born in 1961

Moni Naor was born on March 24, 1961, and grew up in Haifa. His father, Professor Pinchas Paul Naor, was a vice president of the Technion and helped found its faculty of industrial engineering and management. His father was killed in a plane crash in Romania in December 1970.

He graduated from the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa. He earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Technion in 1985. In 1989 he received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, under Manuel Blum.

From 1989 to 1993 he was a researcher at the IBM Almaden center. He joined the Weizmann Institute faculty in 1993. His research covers public key systems secure against chosen ciphertext attack, non-malleable cryptography, visual cryptography with Adi Shamir, broadcast encryption, traitor tracing and proof of work with Cynthia Dwork.

His awards include the Gödel Prize in 2014, the Paris Kanellakis Award in 2016, the Rothschild Prize in 2024 and the Knuth Prize in 2026. In November 2025 he became dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Weizmann Institute. He is married to Professor Dalit Naor and lives in Tel Aviv.