Craig Gentry

Craig Gentry is a computer scientist fueling a revolution in cryptography and theoretical computer science through his elegant solutions to some of the discipline’s most challenging open problems. Craig Gentry received a B.S. (1995) from Duke University, a J.D. (1998) from Harvard Law School, and a Ph.D. (2009) from Stanford University. Prior to his Ph.D., he worked as an intellectual property lawyer (1998–2000) and as a senior research engineer for DoCoMo USA Labs (2000–2005). He is currently a research scientist in the Cryptography Research Group at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center.