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על זכייה בפרס Strage-BGU למצויינות במחקרי סייבר לשנת 2022.

07 נובמבר 2022

 

On behalf of the Strage-BGU Cyber Award committee, it is our great pleasure to announce that 

the winner of the 2022 Strage-BGU Cyber Award for Excellence in Cyber Research is Prof. Adam Morrison 

from Tel-Aviv University. 

 

Prof. Morrison has made many important contributions to the security of processor, network and 

system architecture, especially in the context of micro-architectural side-channel attacks. Understanding 

the security vulnerabilities in this domain and designing techniques to mitigate the attacks that exploit 

these vulnerabilities have become crucial for the security of a large proportion of systems and users.  

Prof. Morrison's work in this space includes designing novel mechanisms to defend against attacks on memory 

management and speculative execution, an analysis of the spread of vulnerabilities in the wild, and construction 

of new attacks, which will require mitigation in the future.

 

Prof. Morrison’s research was recognized globally multiple times over the past years. Among other awards, 

his works were granted the Inaugural Intel Hardware Security Academic Award, the 2021 Facebook Internet 

Defense Prize, and a Distinguished Paper award at the 30th USENIX Security Symposium. Prof. Morrison’s 

research also had an impact outside academia and was nominated as a finalist for the 2021 Pwnie Award 

for Most Innovative Research, granted the top prize of the CSAW (MENA) Applied Research Competition, and 

listed in the US National Vulnerability Database (NVD). Prof. Morrison’s security research was also discussed in 

international media and resulted in changes to the source code of the Linux operating system, demonstrating 

the long-lasting impact of his work on the field of cyber security.

 

Congratulations to Prof. Morrison from the Strage-BGU Cyber Award Committee!

 

Dr. Niv Gilboa – Department of Computer Science

Prof. Danny Hendler – Department of Computer Science

Dr. Yossi Oren– Department of Software and Information Systems
 

Prof. Asaf Shabtai – Department of Software and Information Systems

 

 

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