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Adi Shamir (born July 6, 1952) is an Israeli cryptographer and computer scientist renowned for his pioneering contributions to modern cryptography, including the co-invention of the RSA public-key cryptosystem and the development of Shamir's Secret Sharing scheme.
Shamir earned a BSc in mathematics from Tel Aviv University in 1973, followed by an MSc and PhD in computer science from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1975 and 1977, respectively. After a postdoctoral position at the University of Warwick in 1976 and serving as an instructor and assistant professor at MIT from 1977 to 1980, he joined the Weizmann Institute as an associate professor in 1980, becoming a full professor in 1984, where he has remained a leading figure in the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. He also holds an invited professorship at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris since 2006.
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