Amos Beimel received the B.A., M.Sc., and D.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from the Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, in 1989, 1992, and 1996, respectively. His doctoral thesis was titled “Secure schemes for secret sharing and key distribution”. After graduating from the Technion, he spent one year as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Computer Science (DIMACS) at Rutgers University, and two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at Harvard University. In 1999 he joined the Department of Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University, where he is now a professor. In 2005-2006, he spent a year as a visiting assistant professor at the University of California, Davis. In 2012-14, he was the head of the department of computer science at Ben-Gurion university. His research interests include cryptography and complexity theory. He focuses on secret sharing schemes, private information retrieval, secure multiparty computation, and differential privacy. He published more than 50 papers in journals and conferences, received grants from the Israel Science Foundation, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Economy, and served on various program committees of conferences.

Kobbi Nissim is a faculty member at the Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University. His research interests are in the foundations of privacy and cryptography, and in particular, formal notions of privacy, differential privacy, privacy-aware mechanism design, private approximations, and secure multiparty computation. He received his Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute in 2001 where he studied under the direction of Moni Naor. In 2013, Nissim received, with Irit Dinur, the “Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time” Award for their PODS 2003 paper Revealing Information while Preserving Privacy. In 2016, Nissim received, with Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, and Adam Smith the “TCC Test-of-Time” Award for their TCC 2006 paper Calibrating Noise to Sensitivity in Private Data Analysis where differential privacy was introduced.

Uri Stemmer is a Ph.D. candidate at Ben-Gurion University, advised by Amos Beimel and Kobbi Nissim. His research interests lie in private data analysis and computational learning theory.