Craig Gentry (computer scientist)

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Craig Gentry
Born1973 (age 52–53)
Known forFully-homomorphic encryption
AwardsACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (2009)
Grace Murray Hopper Award (2010)
MacArthur Fellowship (2014)
Gödel Prize (2022)
Academic background
EducationDuke University (BS)
Harvard University (JD)
Stanford University (PhD)
ThesisA Fully Homomorphic Encryption Scheme[1] (2009)
Doctoral advisorDan Boneh
Academic work
DisciplineCryptography, computer science
InstitutionsIBM 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, specifically fully homomorphic encryption.[3][2][4][5]

Education

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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

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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]

References

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  1. ^ Craig Gentry at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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  3. ^ Craig Gentry. Fully Homomorphic Encryption Using Ideal Lattices. In the 41st ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), 2009.
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