Mihir Bellare

Mihir Bellare is a cryptographer and professor at the University of California San Diego. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[2] He has published several seminal papers in the field of cryptography (notably in the area of provable security), many of which were co-written with Phillip Rogaway. Bellare has published a number of papers in the field of Format-Preserving Encryption. His students include Michel Abdalla, Chanathip Namprempre, Tadayoshi Kohno and Anton Mityagin. Bellare is one of the authors of skein.

Mihir Bellare
Occupation	Professor
Board member of	San Diego Privacy Advisory Board
Awards	Paris Kanellakis Award Levchin Prize ACM Fellow
Academic background
Alma mater	Caltech (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Thesis	Randomness in Interactive Proofs (1991)
Doctoral advisor	Silvio Micali[1]
Academic work
Discipline	Computer science
Sub-discipline	Cryptography
Institutions	University of California San Diego
Notable ideas	Random oracle model

In 2003 Bellare was a recipient of RSA Conference's Sixth Annual Award for outstanding contributions in the field of mathematics for his research in cryptography.^[3] In 2013 he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.^[4] In 2019 he was awarded Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography for his outstanding contributions to the design and analysis of real-world cryptosystems, including the development of random oracle model, modes of operation, HMAC, and models for key exchange.^[5]

Bellare's papers cover topics including:

• HMAC
• Random oracle
• OAEP
• Probabilistic signature scheme
• Provable security
• Format-preserving encryption

On September 14, 2022, Bellare was appointed by the mayor of San Diego to the city's Privacy Advisory Board.^[6][2]