Yuval Elovici

Yuval Elovici was born in 1966 in Beersheba

Yuval Elovici was born in Beersheba in 1966 to Dan and Mirela Elovici. He lives in Moshav Arugot with his wife Ornit and their 4 children.

He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in computer and electrical engineering at Ben-Gurion University in 1989 and 1991. He completed his doctorate in information systems at the Faculty of Management of Tel Aviv University, supervised by Niv Ahituv.

He began teaching at Ben-Gurion University in 1998 and became a lecturer in 2000. He became a full professor in 2012 in what is now the Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering. He has directed the Telekom Innovation Laboratories there since 2005 and the Cyber Security Research Center since 2014.

His research covers privacy and anonymity online, malware detection, mobile phone security and social network security. His team showed ways to leak data from air-gapped networks through covert channels such as electromagnetic, ultrasonic, thermal and optical signals. In 2013 his group found a flaw in Samsung phones, and the company then closed it.

In 2014 he co-founded Morphisec, a start-up that develops moving target defense tools. He also directs a cyber security laboratory at the Singapore University of Technology and Design.