| Craig Gentry | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1973 (age 51–52) | 
| Known for | Fully-homomorphic encryption | 
| Awards | 
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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]