Craig Gentry (computer scientist)

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]

Craig Gentry
Born	1973 (age 51–52)
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

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]