Craig Gentry (computer scientist)

Craig Gentry
Born	1973 (age 50–51)
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

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

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

1. Craig Gentry at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
2. 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 2015
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.