Amit Sahai-CORE Academy

Amit Sahai

Division of Mathematics and Information Sciences

Cryptography, Theoretical Computer Science
*****@cs.ucla.edu

Symantec Chair Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles; Director, Center for Encrypted Functionalities; AMS Fellow; IEEE Fellow; ACM Fellow

Information

Membership Number: FCA2310

Membership Type: Fellowship

Division: Mathematics and Information Sciences

Corresponding Email: *****@cs.ucla.edu

Homepage(s): https://web.cs.ucla.edu/~sahai/

Present and Previous Positions

Symantec Chair Professor of Computer Science and by courtesy, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles

Director, Center for Encrypted Functionalities (an NSF Frontier Center)

Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

Amit Sahai's primary research interests are in cryptography, coding theory, complexity theory, and security. He is the co-inventor of attribute-based encryption, functional encryption, and indistinguishability obfuscation.

Honors, Awards and Other Membership

Incumbent of Symantec Endowed Chair of Computer Science (2019-present)
Fellow of the AMS (2024)
Held Prize Lecture, delivered at FOCS 2023
2023 FOCS Test of Time Award (with Garg, Genty, Halevi, Raykova, and Waters)
2023 IACR Test of Time Award, Eurocrypt (with Groth)
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar, Ranked 1st Worldwide in Theory
2023 Pazy Memorial Award (with Ishai, Kushilevitz, and Ostrovsky)
Invited lecturer (special sectional) at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2022, ICM 2022 (with Lin)
2022 National Academy of Sciences Held Prize
2022 WIRED outreach video on Zero Knowledge Proofs with over 6 million views
Simons Investigator (2021)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (2021)
STOC 2021 Best Paper Award (with Jain and Lin)
2021 Harvard Mathematics CMSA Math Science Literature Series, Invited Lecture
2020 IACR Test of Time Award, Eurocrypt (with Waters)
Fellow of the IACR (2019)
Fellow of the ACM (2018)
2016 ACM CCS Test of Time Award (with Goyal, Pandey, and Waters)
2016 Lockheed Martin Excellence in Teaching Award from the Samueli School of Engineering at UCLA
2016 CACM Research Highlight (with Garg, Gentry, Halevi, Raykova, and Waters)
Lead PI, 2014 NSF Frontier Award establishing Center for Encrypted Functionalities
2012 Pazy Memorial Award (with Ishai, Kushilevitz, and Ostrovsky)
2007 Okawa Research Grant Award
2002 Alfred P. Sloan Fellow
Recipient of Google, Xerox, and AWS Faculty Research Awards.

Selected Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gqB23VMAAAAJ&hl=en

Other Information

https://web.cs.ucla.edu/cef/