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]
Craig Gentry | |
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| Born | 1973 (age 50–51) |
| 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 |
Education
editIn 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
editIn 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]
References
edit- ^ Craig Gentry at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b c MacArthur Foundation (17 September 2014). "Craig Gentry". MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- ^ Craig Gentry. Fully Homomorphic Encryption Using Ideal Lattices. In the 41st ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), 2009.
- ^ Greenberg, Andy (3 November 2014), "Hacker Lexicon: What is Homomorphic Encryption?", Wired, retrieved 26 October 2015
- ^ Hayden, Erika (23 March 2015), "Extreme cryptography paves way to personalized medicine", Nature, vol. 519, no. 7544, pp. 400–1, Bibcode:2015Natur.519..400C, doi:10.1038/519400a, PMID 25810184, retrieved 26 October 2015
- ^ "Putnam Competition Individual and Team Winners". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
- ^ Gold, Virginia (16 June 2010). "Doctoral Candidate Developed Scheme that Could Spur Advances in Cloud Computing, Search Engine Queries, and E-Commerce" (Press release). New York. The Association for Computing Machinery. Archived from the original on 9 January 2016. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
- ^ "Craig Gentry". Retrieved 26 October 2015.
- ^ "2022 Gödel Prize Citation". ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory. Association for Computing Machinery.