Craig Gentry (computer scientist)
American computer scientist (born 1973)
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Craig Gentry (born 1973)[2] is an American computer scientist working as CTO of TripleBlind. He is best known for his work in cryptography, specifically fully homomorphic encryption.[3][2][4][5]
Grace Murray Hopper Award (2010)
MacArthur Fellowship (2014)
Gödel Prize (2022)
Harvard University (JD)
Stanford University (PhD)
Craig Gentry | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1973 (age 52–53) |
| Known for | Fully-homomorphic encryption |
| Awards | ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (2009) Grace Murray Hopper Award (2010) MacArthur Fellowship (2014) Gödel Prize (2022) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Duke University (BS) Harvard University (JD) Stanford University (PhD) |
| Thesis | A Fully Homomorphic Encryption Scheme[1] (2009) |
| Dan Boneh | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Cryptography, computer science |
| Institutions | IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Algorand |
Education
In 1993, while studying at Duke University, he became a Putnam Fellow.[6] In 2009, his dissertation, in which he constructed the first Fully Homomorphic Encryption scheme, won the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.[7]
Career
In 2010, he won the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for the work done in his PhD thesis.[8] In 2014, he won a MacArthur Fellowship. Previously, he was a research scientist at the Algorand Foundation and IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center.[2] In 2022, he won the Gödel Prize with Zvika Brakerski and Vinod Vaikuntanathan.[9]