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 senior
lecturer. In 2005-2006, he spent a year as a visiting assistant professor
at the University of California, Davis. His research interests include
cryptography and complexity theory.