Hovav Shacham joined The University of Texas at Austin in 2018. His research interests are in applied cryptography, systems security, privacy-enhancing technologies, and technology policy. Shacham was a student at Stanford and a postdoc at the Weizmann Institute. From 2007 to 2018, he was on the faculty at UCSD. His work has been recognized with three “test-of-time” awards, including one at ACM CCS 2017 for his 2007 paper that introduced return-oriented programming. Shacham took part in California’s 2007 “Top-to-Bottom” voting systems review. His work has been cited by the National Academies, the Federal Trade Commission, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the RAND Corporation.