The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brent Waters sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 193 publications — 44th percentile
44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.
The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brent Waters sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 83 D-Index — 94th percentile
94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.
Brent Waters is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Computer Science, with a total of 127 publications.
The scientist's work spans several subfields, including:
Key topics covered in their research include:
Brent Waters has published multiple papers, notable examples are:
Frequent co-authors in their research include:
The scientist has contributed to book publications by Springer Science+Business Media, with the title "Theory of Cryptography" published twice in 2021.
Brent Waters' work has appeared frequently in the following publication venues:
The scientist has been recognized with several awards, including the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award in 2015 for the introduction and development of the concepts of Attribute-Based Encryption and Functional Encryption, and was named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2010.
Vipul Goyal;Omkant Pandey;Amit Sahai;Brent Waters
J. Bethencourt;A. Sahai;B. Waters
Amit Sahai;Brent Waters
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Hovav Shacham;Brent Waters
Dan Boneh;Brent Waters
Craig Gentry;Amit Sahai;Brent Waters
Allison Lewko;Tatsuaki Okamoto;Amit Sahai;Katsuyuki Takashima
Allison Lewko;Brent Waters
Rafail Ostrovsky;Amit Sahai;Brent Waters
Chris Peikert;Brent Waters
Dan Boneh;Craig Gentry;Brent Waters
Sanjam Garg;Craig Gentry;Shai Halevi;Mariana Raykova
Jonathan Katz;Amit Sahai;Brent Waters
Dan Boneh;Amit Sahai;Brent Waters
Philippe Golle;Jessica Staddon;Brent R. Waters
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Matthew Green;Susan Hohenberger;Brent Waters
Chris Peikert;Vinod Vaikuntanathan;Brent Waters
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