Adam Davison Smith | |
Alma Mater: | McGill University (BSc) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
Thesis Title: | Maintaining Secrecy when Information Leakage is Unavoidable |
Thesis Year: | 2004 |
Doctoral Advisor: | Madhu Sudan |
Work Institution: | Boston University |
Field: | Computer science |
Adam D. Smith is a computer scientist at Boston University, where he is a founding member of the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences. His areas of research include cryptography and information privacy. He is known, along with Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, and Kobbi Nissim, as one of the co-inventors of differential privacy, for which he won the 2017 Gödel Prize.[1]