Professor Rivest is the
Andrew and Erna Viterbi
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in
MIT's
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
He is a member of
MIT's
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL),
a member of the lab's
Theory of Computation Group
and a founder of its
Cryptography and Information
Security Group.
He is a co-author (with Cormen, Leiserson, and Stein) of the text,
Introduction to Algorithms.
He is also a founder of
RSA Data Security,
now named
RSA Security
(the security division of EMC), Versign, and Peppercoin.
Professor Rivest has research interests in cryptography, computer and
network security, electronic voting, and algorithms.