Brent R. Waters is an American computer scientist, specializing in cryptography and computer security. He is currently a professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin.
Brent Waters | |
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Alma mater | Princeton University |
Awards | Grace Murray Hopper Award (2015) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Theoretical computer science |
Institutions | University of Texas at Austin |
Thesis | Cryptographic algorithms for privacy in an age of ubiquitous recording (2004) |
Doctoral advisor | Edward Felten Amit Sahai |
Waters attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he graduated in 2000 with a BS in computer science. He earned a PhD in computer science from Princeton University in 2004.[1]
Waters completed his post-doctoral work at Stanford University from 2004 to 2005, hosted by Dan Boneh, and then worked at SRI International as a computer scientist until 2008. In 2008, he joined the University of Texas at Austin, where he currently holds the title of Professor in the Department of Computer Science.[1] In July 2019, he joined NTT Research to work in their Cryptography and Information Security (CIS) Laboratory.[2]
In 2005, Waters first proposed the concepts of attribute-based encryption and functional encryption with Amit Sahai.[3]
Waters was awarded the Sloan Research Fellowship in 2010.[1] In 2011, he was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers[4] and a Packard Fellowship.[5] In 2015, he was awarded the Grace Murray Hopper Award for the introduction and development of the concepts of attribute-based encryption and functional encryption.[6] In 2019, he was named a Simons Investigator in theoretical computer science.[7] He was elected an ACM Fellow in 2021.[8]
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