- Hi
, I’m Matan, a cryptography enthusiast! - I’m the co-founder and head of research at Sodot
- I’m also a cryptography PhD studnet
at Reichman University. - I’m honored to be advised by Prof. Elette Boyle.
- I’m a proud member of the FACT center.
Interests
- I’m mostly interested in the uses of cryptography to solve real-life privacy and security problems.
- I’m also interested in the more deep foundational works about cryptography and the relation to complexity theory.
- I really enjoy writing, and this is why I initially started this blog.
In The Past…
- I was working as a full time applied cryptography researcher at ZenGo.
- I have been honored to accomplish my Master’s degree under the advisory of the Prof. Eli Ben-Sasson (today at Starkware) and Prof. Mark Silberstein (today Professor at EE@Technion).
- You can also have a look at my Master’s Thesis!
- I was serving at Israeli Intelligence Community for six years as a research and innovation leader.
- I am also a Psagot Program alumnus
- I was the teaching assistance in charge at Technion’s Data-Structures course for three years.
- I was a Computer-Science undergrad student at the Technion, Israel.
Other Hobbies! (Or: I do have some life!)
- I enjoy traveling
and everything which is traveling related. - I’m an avid unprofessional photographer
! I enjoy learning more about it, starting from basic techniques, equipment, optics and digital processing. - I’ve been playing the piano
for 17 years and enjoy listening mostly to classical music. - I love cooking
and also eating my cookings afterwards. - I enjoy teaching
and explaining how things work, mostly for the selfish cause of understanding it better myself 