Craig Gentry (computer scientist)

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

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 same work. 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.