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 |
Career
editWaters 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]
Awards
editWaters 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]
Selected publications
edit- Goyal, Vipul; Pandey, Omkant; Sahai, Amit; Waters, Brent (2006). "Attribute-based encryption for fine-grained access control of encrypted data". Proceedings of the 13th ACM conference on Computer and communications security. pp. 89–98. doi:10.1145/1180405.1180418. ISBN 1595935185. S2CID 5131034.
- John Bethencourt; Amit Sahai; Brent Waters (May 2007), Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption, doi:10.1109/SP.2007.11, Wikidata Q107459178
- Sahai, Amit; Waters, Brent (2005). "Fuzzy Identity-Based Encryption". Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 3494. pp. 457–473. doi:10.1007/11426639_27. ISBN 978-3-540-25910-7.
- Waters, Brent (2005). "Efficient Identity-Based Encryption Without Random Oracles". Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 3494. pp. 114–127. doi:10.1007/11426639_7. ISBN 978-3-540-25910-7.
- Waters, Brent (2011). "Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption: An Expressive, Efficient, and Provably Secure Realization". Public Key Cryptography – PKC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 6571. Public Key Cryptography – PKC 2011. pp. 53–70. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-19379-8_4. ISBN 978-3-642-19378-1.
References
edit- ^ a b c "Brent Waters". The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science. Archived from the original on April 27, 2019.
- ^ "Brent Waters on the Key to Cryptography". NTT Research. June 1, 2020. Retrieved February 14, 2021.
- ^ Sahai, Amit; Waters, Brent (2005). "Fuzzy Identity-Based Encryption" (PDF). Proceedings of Eurocrypt 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 3494. pp. 457–473. doi:10.1007/11426639_27. ISBN 978-3-540-25910-7. S2CID 10137076.
- ^ "President Obama Honors Early Career Scientists and Engineers". nsf.gov. National Science Foundation.
- ^ "Waters, Brent". David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Retrieved February 14, 2021.
- ^ "2015 ACM Technical Awards Winners". awards.acm.org.
- ^ "Simons Investigators". Simons Foundation. Retrieved February 14, 2021.
- ^ 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.
External links
edit- Brent Waters at University of Texas
- Brent Waters publications indexed by Google Scholar