Craig Gentry (computer scientist)

Craig Gentry is an American computer scientist working as CTO of TripleBlind. He is best known for his work in cryptography, specifically fully homomorphic encryption.

WWW crypto.stanford.edu/craig

Education

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

Career

In 2010, he won the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for the work done in his PhD thesis. 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.