Ronald。 Rivest Professor rivest is the professor of a Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is a founder of rsa data Security (now merged with Security Dynamics to form RSa Security ). Professor Rivest has research interests in cryptography, computer and network security, electronic voting, and algorithms6 Ronald L. Rivest Professor Rivest is the Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is a founder of RSA Data Security (now merged with Security Dynamics to form RSA Security). Professor Rivest has research interests in cryptography, computer and network security, electronic voting, and algorithms