 Craig Gentry (computer scientist)

Craig Gentry is an American computer scientist known for his contributions to cryptography, particularly in the area of homomorphic encryption. He gained significant recognition for his work in 2009 when he presented the first fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) scheme. This groundbreaking achievement demonstrated that it is possible to perform computations on encrypted data without needing to decrypt it first, preserving the confidentiality of the data throughout the process.