Brent Waters – Wikipedia

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American computer scientist

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.

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]

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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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References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c “Brent Waters”. The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science. Archived from the original on April 27, 2019.
  2. ^ “Brent Waters on the Key to Cryptography”. NTT Research. June 1, 2020. Retrieved February 14, 2021.
  3. ^ Sahai, Amit; Waters, Brent (2005). “Fuzzy Identity-Based Encryption” (PDF). Proceedings of Eurocrypt 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 3494: 457–473. doi:10.1007/11426639_27. ISBN 978-3-540-25910-7.
  4. ^ “President Obama Honors Early Career Scientists and Engineers”. nsf.gov. National Science Foundation.
  5. ^ “Waters, Brent”. David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Retrieved February 14, 2021.
  6. ^ “2015 ACM Technical Awards Winners”. awards.acm.org.
  7. ^ “Simons Investigators”. Simons Foundation. Retrieved February 14, 2021.
  8. ^ Airhart, Marc G (January 19, 2022). “Waters Named ACM Fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery”. University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences. Retrieved January 29, 2022.

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