Craig Gentry (computer scientist)

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Craig Gentry
Residence Berkeley, California, United States
Citizenship United States
Fields Cryptography, computer science
Institutions IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Alma mater Duke University B.S. (1995), J.D. Harvard Law School (1998), and Ph.D. Stanford University (2009)
Doctoral advisor Dan Boneh
Known for Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Notable awards MacArthur Fellowship (2014), Grace Murray Hopper Award (2010)

Craig Gentry (b. 1972/73[1]) is an American computer scientist. He is best known for his work in cryptography, specifically fully homomorphic encryption.[2][1][3][4] In 2009, his dissertation, in which he constructed the first Fully Homomorphic Encryption scheme, won the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.[5] In 2010 he won the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for the same work.[6] In 2014, he won a MacArthur Fellowship. He is a research scientist at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c MacArthur Foundation (17 September 2014). "Craig Gentry". MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved 12 March 2015. 
  2. ^ Craig Gentry. Fully Homomorphic Encryption Using Ideal Lattices. In the 41st ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), 2009.
  3. ^ Greenberg, Andy (3 November 2014), "Hacker Lexicon: What is Homomorphic Encryption?", Wired, retrieved 26 October 2015 
  4. ^ Hayden, Erika (23 March 2015), "Extreme cryptography paves way to personalized medicine", Nature, retrieved 26 October 2015 
  5. ^ 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. 
  6. ^ "Craig Gentry". Retrieved 26 October 2015.