Brent Waters
Brent R. Waters is an American computer scientist,
specializing in cryptography and computer security. He Brent Waters
is currently a professor of Computer Science at the Alma mater Princeton University
University of Texas at Austin. Awards Grace Murray Hopper Award
(2015)
Scientific career
Career Fields Theoretical computer science
Waters attended the University of California, Los Institutions University of Texas at Austin
Angeles, where he graduated in 2000 with a BS in Thesis Cryptographic algorithms for
computer science. He earned a PhD in computer privacy in an age of ubiquitous
science from Princeton University in 2004.[1] recording (2004)
Doctoral Edward Felten
Waters completed his post-doctoral work at Stanford
advisor Amit Sahai
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
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]
Selected publications
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 (https://doi.org/10.1145%2F1180405.1180418).
ISBN 1595935185. S2CID 5131034 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:5131034).
John Bethencourt; Amit Sahai; Brent Waters (May 2007), Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based
Encryption, doi:10.1109/SP.2007.11 (https://doi.org/10.1109%2FSP.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 (https://doi.org/10.1007%2F11426639_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 (https://doi.org/10.1007%2F11426639_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 (https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-642-19379-8_4).
ISBN 978-3-642-19378-1.
References
1. "Brent Waters" (https://web.archive.org/web/20190427000446/https://www.cs.utexas.edu/dir
ectory/brent-waters). The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science.
Archived from the original (https://www.cs.utexas.edu/directory/brent-waters) on April 27,
2019.
2. "Brent Waters on the Key to Cryptography" (https://ntt-research.com/blog/brent-waters-on-th
e-key-to-cryptography/). NTT Research. June 1, 2020. Retrieved February 14, 2021.
3. Sahai, Amit; Waters, Brent (2005). "Fuzzy Identity-Based Encryption" (http://eprint.iacr.org/2
004/086.pdf) (PDF). Proceedings of Eurocrypt 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Vol. 3494. pp. 457–473. doi:10.1007/11426639_27 (https://doi.org/10.1007%2F11426639_2
7). ISBN 978-3-540-25910-7. S2CID 10137076 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:1
0137076).
4. "President Obama Honors Early Career Scientists and Engineers" (https://www.nsf.gov/new
s/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=124707). nsf.gov. National Science Foundation.
5. "Waters, Brent" (https://www.packard.org/what-we-fund/science/packard-fellowships-for-scie
nce-and-engineering/fellowship-directory/waters-brent/). David and Lucile Packard
Foundation. Retrieved February 14, 2021.
6. "2015 ACM Technical Awards Winners" (https://awards.acm.org/about/2015-technical-award
s). awards.acm.org.
7. "Simons Investigators" (https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-investigators/?tab=
awardees). Simons Foundation. Retrieved February 14, 2021.
8. Airhart, Marc G (January 19, 2022). "Waters Named ACM Fellow by the Association for
Computing Machinery" (https://cns.utexas.edu/news/waters-named-acm-fellow-by-the-assoc
iation-for-computing-machinery). University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences.
Retrieved January 29, 2022.
External links
Brent Waters (https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~bwaters/) at University of Texas
Brent Waters (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VEKxHOAAAAAJ) publications
indexed by Google Scholar
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