Craig Gentry (computer scientist)

Craig Gentry
Craig Gentry
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	Duke University (B.S. 1995); Harvard Law School (J.D. 1998); Stanford University (Ph.D. 2009);
Known for	Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Awards	ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (2009); MacArthur Fellowship (2014); Grace Murray Hopper Award (2010);
	Scientific career
Fields	Cryptography, computer science
Institutions	IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Thesis	A Fully Homomorphic Encryption Scheme (2009)
Doctoral advisor	Dan Boneh

Craig Gentry (b. 1972/73^[2]) is an American computer scientist. He is best known for his work in cryptography, specifically fully homomorphic encryption.^[3]^[2]^[4]^[5] In 2009, his dissertation, in which he constructed the first Fully Homomorphic Encryption scheme, won the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.^[6] In 2010 he won the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for the same work.^[7] In 2014, he won a MacArthur Fellowship. He is a research scientist at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center.^[2]

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
^ Hayden, Erika (23 March 2015), "Extreme cryptography paves way to personalized medicine", Nature, retrieved 26 October 2015
^ 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. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
^ "Craig Gentry". Retrieved 26 October 2015.

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