Tal Moran graduated from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2008 under the supervision of Moni Naor. His thesis was titled Cryptography by the People, for the People, reflecting his interest in applying ideas and techniques from theoretical cryptography to “real world” systems, such as voting schemes. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard University. In his free time, he has occasionally been seen to juggle.

Moni Naor received a B.A. degree from the Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, in 1985 and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989, both in computer science. After spending four years at the IBM Almaden Research Center, he joined the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, where he currently serves as the incumbent of the Judith Kleeman Professorial Chair.

Gil Segev received a B.Sc. degree in mathematics and computer science from Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, in 2004 and a M.Sc. degree in computer science from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel in 2006. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the Weizmann Institute.