2026 Adi Shamir: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	97	412	400	9	8	257	116634

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Israel Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Israel Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Israel Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Israel Leader Award
2020 - ACM Fellow For contributions to the field of cryptography
2018 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
2017 - BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
2017 - Japan Prize for his significant contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer science.
2007 - Member of Academia Europaea
2005 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2002 - A. M. Turing Award Together with Leonard M. Adleman and Ronald Rivest, for their ingenious contribution to making public-key cryptography useful in practice.
2000 - IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award “For the revolutionary invention of the RSA public key cryptosystem which is the first to be widelyadopted.”
1996 - ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award Public-Key Cryptography

Overview

Adi Shamir is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with notable focus on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Molecular Biology, and Signal Processing.

The main research topics explored by Shamir include Cryptography and Data Security, Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data, Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques, DNA and Biological Computing, Face recognition and analysis, Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning, and Biometric Identification and Security.

Shamir has published work in several venues, notably:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IACR Communications in Cryptology
World review of nutrition and dietetics

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Shamir include:

A system capable of verifiably and privately screening global DNA synthesis (2024, arXiv)
Efficient Maliciously Secure Oblivious Exponentiations (2024, IACR Communications in Cryptology)
Prelims (2022, World review of nutrition and dietetics)
Facial Misrecognition Systems: Simple Weight Manipulations Force DNNs to Err Only on Specific Persons (2023, arXiv)

Frequent collaborators in Shamir's research include:

Ronald L. Rivest
Jens Berlips
W Q Chen
Ivan Damgård
Kevin M. Esvelt

Shamir has been recognized with various professional honors:

A. M. Turing Award (2002), awarded together with Leonard M. Adleman and Ronald Rivest for the contribution to making public-key cryptography useful in practice
ACM Fellow (2020) for contributions to the field of cryptography
Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom (2018)
Japan Prize (2017) for significant contributions to cryptography and computer science
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2017)
Member of Academia Europaea (2007)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2005)
IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award (2000) for the invention of the RSA public key cryptosystem
ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award (1996) in Public-Key Cryptography

Best Publications

A method for obtaining digital signatures and public-key cryptosystems

R. L. Rivest;A. Shamir;L. Adleman

25245
Citations
How to share a secret

Adi Shamir

19444
Citations
Identity-based cryptosystems and signature schemes

Adi Shamir

9960
Citations
How to prove yourself: practical solutions to identification and signature problems

Amos Fiat;Adi Shamir

5723
Citations
Differential cryptanalysis of DES-like cryptosystems

Eli Biham;Adi Shamir

4007
Citations
Visual Cryptography

M. Naor;A. Shamir

3701
Citations
Differential fault analysis of secret key cryptosystems

E. Biham;A. Shamir

2655
Citations
How to Leak a Secret

Ronald L. Rivest;Adi Shamir;Yael Tauman

2403
Citations
On the complexity of time table and multi-commodity flow problems

S. Even;A. Itai;A. Shamir

2077
Citations
Weaknesses in the Key Scheduling Algorithm of RC4

Scott R. Fluhrer;Itsik Mantin;Adi Shamir

1813
Citations
Zero-knowledge proofs of identity

U. Feige;A. Fiat;A. Shamir

1800
Citations
Cache attacks and countermeasures: the case of AES

Dag Arne Osvik;Adi Shamir;Eran Tromer

1747
Citations
Cryptographic communications system and method

Ronald L. Rivest;Adi Shamir;Leonard M. Adleman

1652
Citations
On the Complexity of Timetable and Multicommodity Flow Problems

Shimon Even;Alon Itai;Adi Shamir

1484
Citations
Differential Cryptanalysis of the Data Encryption Standard

Eli Biham;Adi Shamir

1313
Citations
Quantitative Analysis of the Full Bitcoin Transaction Graph

Dorit Ron;Adi Shamir

1311
Citations
IP = PSPACE

Adi Shamir

1184
Citations
Cryptanalysis of Skipjack Reduced to 31 Rounds Using Impossible Differentials

Eli Biham;Alex Biryukov;Adi Shamir

1175
Citations
Efficient algorithms for solving overdefined systems of multivariate polynomial equations

Nicolas Courtois;Alexander Klimov;Jacques Patarin;Adi Shamir

1107
Citations
PayWord and MicroMint: Two Simple Micropayment Schemes

Ronald L. Rivest;Adi Shamir

1105
Citations
A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public Key Cryptosystems (Formerly on Digital Signatures and Public Key Cryptosystems)

Ronald L. Rivest;Adi Shamir;Len Adelman

23
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Orr Dunkelman University of Haifa

Nathan Keller Bar-Ilan University

Eli Biham Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Eran Tromer Tel Aviv University

Ronald L. Rivest MIT

Alex Biryukov University of Luxembourg

Amos Fiat Tel Aviv University

Uriel Feige Weizmann Institute of Science

Pierre-Alain Fouque University of Rennes

Daniel Genkin Georgia Institute of Technology

External Links

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