Ron Rivest

Ron Rivest
Rivest in 2012
Born	(1947-05-06) May 6, 1947 (age 77) Schenectady, New York, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Stanford University (PhD) Yale University
Known for	Public-key RSA, RC2, RC4, RC5, RC6 MD2, MD4, MD5, MD6, Ring signature
Awards	Paris Kanellakis Award (1996) Turing Award (2002) Marconi Prize (2007) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards (2017) National Inventors Hall of Fame (2018)
Scientific career
Fields	Algorithms Cryptography Machine learning Election security
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis	Analysis of associative retrieval algorithms (1974)
Doctoral advisor	Robert W. Floyd
Doctoral students	Avrim Blum[1] Benny Chor[1] Sally Goldman[1] Burt Kaliski[1] Andrea LaPaugh[1] Anna Lysyanskaya[1] Ron Pinter[1] Robert Schapire[1] Alan Sherman[1] Mona Singh[2]
Website	people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/

Ronald Linn Rivest (/rɪˈvɛst/;^[3][4] born May 6, 1947) is a cryptographer and computer scientist whose work has spanned the fields of algorithms and combinatorics, cryptography, machine learning, and election integrity. He is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),^[5] and a member of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and its Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Along with Adi Shamir and Len Adleman, Rivest is one of the inventors of the RSA algorithm. He is also the inventor of the symmetric key encryption algorithms RC2, RC4, and RC5, and co-inventor of RC6. (RC stands for "Rivest Cipher".) He also devised the MD2, MD4, MD5 and MD6 cryptographic hash functions.