Craig Gentry (computer scientist)
Craig Gentry | |
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| Born | 1973 (age 50–51) |
| Known for | Fully-homomorphic encryption |
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| Education | 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]
Education
In 1993, while studying at
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
In 2010, he won the ACM
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center.[2] In 2022, he won the Gödel Prize with Zvika Brakerski and Vinod Vaikuntanathan.[9]
References
- ^ 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
- 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.
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