Craig Gentry (computer scientist)

American computer scientist (born 1973)

Craig Gentry

Born| 1973 (age 51-52)
Known for| Fully-homomorphic encryption
Awards|

* ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (2009)
* MacArthur Fellowship (2014)
* Grace Murray Hopper Award (2010)
* Gödel Prize (2022)

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]

## 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 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

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1. ^ Craig Gentry at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
2. ^ a b c MacArthur Foundation (17 September 2014). "Craig Gentry". MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
3. ^ Craig Gentry. Fully Homomorphic Encryption Using Ideal Lattices. In the 41st ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), 2009.
4. ^ Greenberg, Andy (3 November 2014), "Hacker Lexicon: What is Homomorphic Encryption?", Wired, retrieved 26 October 2015
5. ^ 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 2015400-1&rft.date=2015-03-23&rft_id=info:pmid/25810184&rft_id=info:doi/10.1038/519400a&rft_id=info:bibcode/2015Natur.519..400C&rft.aulast=Hayden&rft.aufirst=Erika&rft_id=http://www.nature.com/news/extreme-cryptography-paves-way-to-personalized-medicine-1.17174&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Craig+Gentry+(computer+scientist)" class="Z3988">
6. ^ "Putnam Competition Individual and Team Winners". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
7. ^ 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.
8. ^ "Craig Gentry". Retrieved 26 October 2015.
9. ^ "2022 Gödel Prize Citation". ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory. Association for Computing Machinery.

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Grace Murray Hopper Award recipients

* Knuth (1971)
* Dirksen (1972)
* Cress (1972)
* Breed/Lathwell/Moore (1973)
* Baird (1974)
* Scherr (1975)
* Shortliffe (1976)
* Kurzweil (1978)
* Wozniak (1979)
* Metcalfe (1980)
* Bricklin (1981)
* Reid (1982)
* Ingalls (1984)
* Green (1985)
* Joy (1986)
* Ousterhout (1987)
* Steele (1988)
* Hillis (1989)
* Stallman (1990)
* Hsu (1991)
* Stroustrup (1993)
* Goldwasser (1996)
* Hwu (1999)
* Kavraki (2000)
* Necula (2001)
* Srikant (2002)
* Keckler (2003)
* Rexford (2004)
* Reingold (2005)
* Klein (2006)
* Paxson (2007)
* Engler (2008)
* Roughgarden (2009)
* Gentry (2010)
* Ahn (2011)
* Casado and Katabi (2012)
* Felzenszwalb (2013)
* Ratnasamy (2014)
* Waters (2015)
* Heer (2016)
* Randles (2017)
* Daskalakis and Freedman (2018)
* Balcan (2019)
* Gollakota (2020)
* Popa (2021)
* Alizadeh (2022)
* Mittal (2023)

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* Mathematics Genealogy Project
* Association for Computing Machinery
* zbMATH
* Google Scholar
* DBLP
* MathSciNet

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