Professor, School of Computing
| amir.herzberg@uconn.edu | |
| Phone | (860) 486-4825 |
| Mailing Address | University of Connecticut 371 Fairfield Way, Unit 4155 Storrs, CT 06269-4155 |
| Link | Affiliation Website |
| Google Scholar Link | |
Brief Bio
Dr. Amir Herzberg is an internationally recognized leader in the research on network security and applied cryptography. Dr. Herzberg earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1991 from the Technion in Israel. From 1991 to 1995, he worked at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, where he was a research staff member and the manager of the Network Security research group. From 1996 to 2000, Dr. Herzberg was the Manager of E-Business and Security Technologies at the IBM Haifa Research Lab. From 2002 to 2017, he was on the faculty of the Bar Ilan University in Israel conducting research in network security and applied cryptography. Dr. Herzberg is the author of more than 150 research papers, five (5) book chapters, and 24 patents. Dr. Herzberg has served on technical program committees of over 40 conferences, and delivered keynote and plenary addresses on cyber-security at ten (10) conferences, and organized multiple professional events.
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Internet security: infrastructure (routing, DNS, DoS) and applications (web, phishing).
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Applied provable cryptography, esp. of applied cryptographic protocols, PKI, and resiliency to exposures and to cryptanalysis.
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Privacy, anonymity and covert communication.
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Security of systems interacting with humans: social-engineering, phishing and other attacks exploiting human behaviors, and usable security defenses.
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Financial cryptography, i.e., using cryptography to innovate financial systems, protocols and networks.
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Security for IoT and other emerging networks (e.g., of sensors, drones, stealthy-bots).