Brent Waters

Brent 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
Born
Brent R. Waters
EducationUCLA
Princeton University
AwardsSloan Research Fellowship (2010)
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2011)
Grace Murray Hopper Award (2015)
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical computer science
InstitutionsUniversity of Texas at Austin
ThesisCryptographic algorithms for privacy in an age of ubiquitous recording (2004)
Doctoral advisorEdward Felten
Amit Sahai

Career

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 2005, Waters first proposed the concepts of attribute-based encryption and functional encryption with Amit Sahai.[2] In 2013, Waters, along with Amit Sahai, Sanjam Garg, Craig Gentry, Shai Halevi, and Mariana Raykova, published a proof of concept of the indistinguishability obfuscation primitive.[3]

Awards

Waters was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2010, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2011.[1][4] 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.[5]

References
  1. "Brent Waters". The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science. Archived from the original on April 27, 2019.
  2. Amit Sahai; Brent Waters (2005). "Fuzzy Identity-Based Encryption" (PDF). Proceedings of Eurocrypt 2005.
  3. Sanjam Garg; Craig Gentry; Shai Halevi; Mariana Raykova; Amit Sahai; Brent Waters (2013). "Candidate Indistinguishability Obfuscation and Functional Encryption for all Circuits". Focs 2013. IEEE: 40–49. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.672.1968. doi:10.1109/FOCS.2013.13. ISBN 978-0-7695-5135-7.
  4. "President Obama Honors Early Career Scientists and Engineers". nsf.gov. National Science Foundation.
  5. "2015 ACM Technical Awards Winners". awards.acm.org.
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