2026 Brent Waters: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	83	876	845	478	459	193	66864

Research.com Recognitions

2015 - ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award For the introduction and development of the concepts of Attribute-Based Encryption and Functional Encryption.
2010 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

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:

Artificial Intelligence
Computational Theory and Mathematics
Information Systems
Computer Networks and Communications
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Key topics covered in their research include:

Cryptography and Data Security
Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs
Cryptographic Implementations and Security
Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
Chaos-based Image/Signal Encryption
Cryptography and Residue Arithmetic
Cloud Data Security Solutions

Brent Waters has published multiple papers, notable examples are:

How to Use Indistinguishability Obfuscation: Deniable Encryption, and More (2021), SIAM Journal on Computing
Decentralized Multi-authority ABE for $$\textsf{NC}^1$$ from BDH (2023), Journal of Cryptology
New Methods and Abstractions for RSA-Based Forward Secure Signatures (2020), Lecture notes in computer science
New Techniques in Replica Encodings with Client Setup (2020), Lecture notes in computer science

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

David J. Wu
George Lu
Rishab Goyal
Rachit Garg
Susan Hohenberger

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:

Lecture notes in computer science
SIAM Journal on Computing
Journal of Cryptology

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.

Best Publications

Attribute-Based Encryption for Fine-Grained Access Control of Encrypted Data.

Vipul Goyal;Omkant Pandey;Amit Sahai;Brent Waters

7060
Citations
Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption

J. Bethencourt;A. Sahai;B. Waters

6840
Citations
Fuzzy identity-based encryption

Amit Sahai;Brent Waters

6020
Citations
Efficient identity-based encryption without random oracles

Brent Waters

2650
Citations
Ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption: an expressive, efficient, and provably secure realization

Brent Waters

2620
Citations
Compact Proofs of Retrievability

Hovav Shacham;Brent Waters

2208
Citations
Conjunctive, subset, and range queries on encrypted data

Dan Boneh;Brent Waters

1870
Citations
Homomorphic Encryption from Learning with Errors: Conceptually-Simpler, Asymptotically-Faster, Attribute-Based.

Craig Gentry;Amit Sahai;Brent Waters

1736
Citations
Fully secure functional encryption: attribute-based encryption and (hierarchical) inner product encryption

Allison Lewko;Tatsuaki Okamoto;Amit Sahai;Katsuyuki Takashima

1645
Citations
Decentralizing attribute-based encryption

Allison Lewko;Brent Waters

1643
Citations
Attribute-Based Encryption with Non-Monotonic Access Structures.

Rafail Ostrovsky;Amit Sahai;Brent Waters

1554
Citations
Lossy Trapdoor Functions and Their Applications

Chris Peikert;Brent Waters

1432
Citations
Collusion Resistant Broadcast Encryption With Short Ciphertexts and Private Keys.

Dan Boneh;Craig Gentry;Brent Waters

1420
Citations
Candidate Indistinguishability Obfuscation and Functional Encryption for all Circuits

Sanjam Garg;Craig Gentry;Shai Halevi;Mariana Raykova

1312
Citations
Predicate encryption supporting disjunctions, polynomial equations, and inner products

Jonathan Katz;Amit Sahai;Brent Waters

1213
Citations
Functional encryption: definitions and challenges

Dan Boneh;Amit Sahai;Brent Waters

1202
Citations
Secure Conjunctive Keyword Search over Encrypted Data

Philippe Golle;Jessica Staddon;Brent R. Waters

1112
Citations
Dual System Encryption: Realizing Fully Secure IBE and HIBE under Simple Assumptions.

Brent Waters

1093
Citations
Outsourcing the decryption of ABE ciphertexts

Matthew Green;Susan Hohenberger;Brent Waters

883
Citations
A Framework for Efficient and Composable Oblivious Transfer

Chris Peikert;Vinod Vaikuntanathan;Brent Waters

832
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Amit Sahai University of California, Los Angeles

Susan Hohenberger Johns Hopkins University

Dan Boneh Stanford University

Hovav Shacham The University of Texas at Austin

Craig Gentry TripleBlind

Xavier Boyen Queensland University of Technology

Chris Peikert University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Sanjam Garg University of California, Berkeley

Mihir Bellare University of California, San Diego

Jonathan Katz University of Maryland, College Park

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