Phillip Rogaway was a Professor at the University of California, Davis, and who has advanced so many areas of cryptography. He was the first to be awarded Levchin prize in 2016. Phillip has over 43,000 citations to his work, including classic papers on random oracles, symmetric key modes, garbled circuits, secure computation, and format-preserving encryption. Along with his passion for research, he has published work on areas of morality in cryptography