American computer scientist
Brent R. Waters is an American computer scientist , specializing in cryptography and computer security . He is currently a professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin .
Career
Waters attended the University of California, Los Angeles , where he graduated in 2000 with a BS in computer science. He earned a PhD in computer science from Princeton University in 2004.[ 1]
Waters completed his post-doctoral work at Stanford University from 2004 to 2005, hosted by Dan Boneh , and then worked at SRI International as a computer scientist until 2008. In 2008, he joined the University of Texas at Austin, where he currently holds the title of Professor in the Department of Computer Science.[ 1] In July 2019, he joined NTT Research to work in their Cryptography and Information Security (CIS) Laboratory.[ 2]
In 2005, Waters first proposed the concepts of attribute-based encryption and functional encryption with Amit Sahai .[ 3]
Awards
Waters was awarded the Sloan Research Fellowship in 2010.[ 1] In 2011, he was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers [ 4] and a Packard Fellowship .[ 5] In 2015, he was awarded the Grace Murray Hopper Award for the introduction and development of the concepts of attribute-based encryption and functional encryption.[ 6] In 2019, he was named a Simons Investigator in theoretical computer science.[ 7] He was elected an ACM Fellow in 2021.[ 8]
Selected publications
Goyal, Vipul; Pandey, Omkant; Sahai, Amit; Waters, Brent (2006). "Attribute-based encryption for fine-grained access control of encrypted data". Proceedings of the 13th ACM conference on Computer and communications security . pp. 89–98. doi :10.1145/1180405.1180418 . ISBN 1595935185 . S2CID 5131034 .
John Bethencourt; Amit Sahai; Brent Waters (May 2007), Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption , doi :10.1109/SP.2007.11 , Wikidata Q107459178
Sahai, Amit; Waters, Brent (2005). "Fuzzy Identity-Based Encryption". Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2005 . Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 3494. pp. 457–473. doi :10.1007/11426639_27 . ISBN 978-3-540-25910-7 .
Waters, Brent (2005). "Efficient Identity-Based Encryption Without Random Oracles". Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2005 . Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 3494. pp. 114–127. doi :10.1007/11426639_7 . ISBN 978-3-540-25910-7 .
Waters, Brent (2011). "Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption: An Expressive, Efficient, and Provably Secure Realization". Public Key Cryptography – PKC 2011 . Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 6571. Public Key Cryptography – PKC 2011. pp. 53–70. doi :10.1007/978-3-642-19379-8_4 . ISBN 978-3-642-19378-1 .
References
^ a b c "Brent Waters" . The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science . Archived from the original on April 27, 2019.
^ "Brent Waters on the Key to Cryptography" . NTT Research . June 1, 2020. Retrieved February 14, 2021 .
^ Sahai, Amit; Waters, Brent (2005). "Fuzzy Identity-Based Encryption" (PDF) . Proceedings of Eurocrypt 2005 . Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 3494. pp. 457–473. doi :10.1007/11426639_27 . ISBN 978-3-540-25910-7 . S2CID 10137076 .
^ "President Obama Honors Early Career Scientists and Engineers" . nsf.gov . National Science Foundation.
^ "Waters, Brent" . David and Lucile Packard Foundation . Retrieved February 14, 2021 .
^ "2015 ACM Technical Awards Winners" . awards.acm.org .
^ "Simons Investigators" . Simons Foundation . Retrieved February 14, 2021 .
^ Airhart, Marc G (January 19, 2022). "Waters Named ACM Fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery" . University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences . Retrieved January 29, 2022 .
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