Craig Gentry (computer scientist) explained

Craig Gentry
Discipline:	Cryptography, computer science
Workplaces:	IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Algorand Foundation
Education:	Duke University (BS) Harvard University (JD) Stanford University (PhD)
Doctoral Advisor:	Dan Boneh
Thesis Title:	A Fully Homomorphic Encryption Scheme
Thesis Year:	2009
Known For:	Fully-homomorphic encryption
Awards:	ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (2009) MacArthur Fellowship (2014) Grace Murray Hopper Award (2010) Gödel Prize (2022)

Craig Gentry (born 1973)^[1] is an American computer scientist working as CTO of TripleBlind. He is best known for his work in cryptography, specifically fully homomorphic encryption.^{[2] [1]}

Education

In 1993, while studying at Duke University, he became a Putnam Fellow.^[3] In 2009, his dissertation, in which he constructed the first Fully Homomorphic Encryption scheme, won the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.^[4]

Career

In 2010, he won the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for the same work.^[5] In 2014, he won a MacArthur Fellowship. Previously, he was a research scientist at the Algorand Foundation and IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. In 2022, he won the Gödel Prize with Zvika Brakerski and Vinod Vaikuntanathan.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: MacArthur Foundation . 17 September 2014 . Craig Gentry . 12 March 2015 . MacArthur Foundation.
2. Craig Gentry. Fully Homomorphic Encryption Using Ideal Lattices. In the 41st ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), 2009.
3. Web site: Putnam Competition Individual and Team Winners . Mathematical Association of America. December 14, 2021.
4. Gold. Virginia. 16 June 2010. Doctoral Candidate Developed Scheme that Could Spur Advances in Cloud Computing, Search Engine Queries, and E-Commerce. New York. The Association for Computing Machinery. 2015-10-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20160109182814/http://www.acm.org/press-room/awards/dd-award-09. 9 January 2016. dead.
5. Web site: Craig Gentry . . 26 October 2015.
6. Web site: 2022 Gödel Prize Citation . ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory . Association for Computing Machinery.