Craig Gentry | |
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| 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) |
| Doctoral advisor | Dan Boneh |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Cryptography,computer science |
| Institutions | IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Algorand |
Craig Gentry (born 1973)[2] is an American computer scientist working as CTO of TripleBlind. He is best known for his work in cryptography, specificallyfully homomorphic encryption.[3][2][4][5]
In 1993, while studying atDuke University, he became aPutnam Fellow.[6] In 2009, his dissertation, in which he constructed the first Fully Homomorphic Encryption scheme, won theACMDoctoral Dissertation Award.[7]
In 2010, he won the ACMGrace Murray Hopper Award for the work done in his PhD thesis.[8] In 2014, he won aMacArthur Fellowship. Previously, he was a research scientist at the Algorand Foundation andIBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center.[2] In 2022, he won theGödel Prize withZvika Brakerski andVinod Vaikuntanathan.[9]
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