Craig Gentry | |
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Born | 1973 (age 51–52) |
Known for | Fully-homomorphic encryption |
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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 Foundation |
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]
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]
In 2010,he won the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for the same work. [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]