Yossi Oren is a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and a researcher at BGU’s Cyber Security Research Center. Prior to joining BGU, Yossi was a post-doctoral research scientist in the Network Security Lab at Columbia University and a member of the Security Lab at Samsung Research Israel. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute of Science.

His research interests include implementation security (power analysis and other hardware attacks and countermeasures; low-resource cryptographic constructions for lightweight computers) and cryptography in the real world (consumer and voter privacy in the digital era; web application security).