Adi Shamir is the Paul and Marlene Borman Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He is a co-inventor of the RSA algorithm (along with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman), a co-inventor of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme (along with Uriel Feige and Amos Fiat), one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis and has made numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer science.

Adi is receiving an honorary degree in the January congregation, managed by WMG.