Dr. Ari Juels is Chief Scientist and Director of RSA Laboratories, where he works to bring sparks of invention and insight from RSA's scientists and affiliates to the company as a whole. He joined RSA in 1996. Ari's dozens of research publications span a range of topics, including biometric security, RFID security and privacy, electronic voting, browser security, combinatorial optimization, and denial-of-service protection. Ari has served as the program chair or co-chair for a number of conferences and workshops, and is a frequent invited speaker at industry events. In 2004, MIT's Technology Review Magazine named Dr. Juels one of the world's top 100 technology innovators under the age of 35. Computerworld honored him in its "40 Under 40" list in 2007. Ari's cryptographic thriller novel Tetraktys (Emerald Bay Books) was published in 2009. Ari received his B.A. in Latin Literature and Mathematics from Amherst College in 1991 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley in 1996.