Amos Beimel received BA, MSc, and DSc degrees in Computer Science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, in 1989, 1992, and 1996, respectively. After graduating from the Technion, he spent one year as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Computer Science (DIMACS) at Rutgers University, and two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at Harvard University. In 1999 he joined the Department of Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University, where he is now a professor. In 2005-2006, he spent a year as a visiting assistant professor at the University of California, Davis. In 2012-2014, he was the head of the computer science department at BGU.