2026 Craig Gentry: 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	73	1533	1487	796	767	176	52954

Research.com Recognitions

2010 - ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award For his breakthrough construction of a fully homomorphic encryption scheme, enabling arbitrary computations to be performed on encrypted data without the data being decrypted.

Overview

Craig Gentry is affiliated with TripleBlind in the United States and has contributed to the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, with a primary focus on Artificial Intelligence and related subfields. Their research spans areas such as Cryptography and Data Security, Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data, and Blockchain Technology Applications and Security, among others.

The scientist has published papers across several venues, including:

Studies in health technology and informatics
Journal of Cryptology
Lecture notes in computer science
SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition
arXiv (Cornell University)

Key papers authored or co-authored by Craig Gentry include:

"Achievable CCA2 Relaxation for Homomorphic Encryption," 2024, Journal of Cryptology
"Random-Index PIR and Applications," 2021, Lecture notes in computer science
"STOP-HCV-HCC Program: Privacy-Preserving Innovation for Remote Data Access Analytics at Federally Qualified Health Centers in South Texas," 2024, Studies in health technology and informatics
"A Novel Privacy-Preserving Approach to Enable Remote Data Access and Analytics at Federally Qualified Health Centers: Stop-HCC-HCV Program in South Texas," 2025, Studies in health technology and informatics
"Successful Open-Hole Gravel Pack with Alternate Path Technology in Depleted Reservoirs: A Mindset Change in Gulf of Mexico," 2025, SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Frequent co-authors working with Craig Gentry include:

Shai Halevi
Hugo Krawczyk
Tal Rabin
Bernardo Magri
Jesper Buus Nielsen

The research topics covered in Craig Gentry's body of work highlight several areas of interest:

Cryptography and Data Security
Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs
Electronic Health Records Systems
Security and Verification in Computing
Cryptographic Implementations and Security

Craig Gentry has received recognition in the form of the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award in 2010. This award was presented for the breakthrough construction of a fully homomorphic encryption scheme, which allows arbitrary computations to be performed on encrypted data without the need for decryption.

Best Publications

Fully homomorphic encryption using ideal lattices

Craig Gentry

8532
Citations
A fully homomorphic encryption scheme

Dan Boneh;Craig Gentry

3449
Citations
Trapdoors for hard lattices and new cryptographic constructions

Craig Gentry;Chris Peikert;Vinod Vaikuntanathan

2771
Citations
Aggregate and verifiably encrypted signatures from bilinear maps

Dan Boneh;Craig Gentry;Ben Lynn;Hovav Shacham

2687
Citations
Fully homomorphic encryption over the integers

Marten van Dijk;Craig Gentry;Shai Halevi;Vinod Vaikuntanathan

2524
Citations
Leveled) fully homomorphic encryption without bootstrapping

Zvika Brakerski;Craig Gentry;Vinod Vaikuntanathan

2168
Citations
Homomorphic Encryption from Learning with Errors: Conceptually-Simpler, Asymptotically-Faster, Attribute-Based.

Craig Gentry;Amit Sahai;Brent Waters

1736
Citations
Hierarchical ID-based cryptography

Craig Gentry;Alice Silverberg

1694
Citations
Leveled) Fully Homomorphic Encryption without Bootstrapping

Zvika Brakerski;Craig Gentry;Vinod Vaikuntanathan

1438
Citations
Non-interactive verifiable computing: outsourcing computation to untrusted workers

Rosario Gennaro;Craig Gentry;Bryan Parno

1428
Citations
Collusion Resistant Broadcast Encryption With Short Ciphertexts and Private Keys.

Dan Boneh;Craig Gentry;Brent Waters

1420
Citations
Pinocchio: nearly practical verifiable computation

Bryan Parno;Jon Howell;Craig Gentry;Mariana Raykova

1394
Citations
Implementing Gentry's fully-homomorphic encryption scheme

Craig Gentry;Shai Halevi

1326
Citations
Candidate Indistinguishability Obfuscation and Functional Encryption for all Circuits

Sanjam Garg;Craig Gentry;Shai Halevi;Mariana Raykova

1312
Citations
Certificate-based encryption and the certificate revocation problem

Craig Gentry

1128
Citations
Practical identity-based encryption without random oracles

Craig Gentry

1062
Citations
Homomorphic Evaluation of the AES Circuit

Craig Gentry;Shai Halevi;Nigel P. Smart

1019
Citations
Quadratic Span Programs and Succinct NIZKs without PCPs

Rosario Gennaro;Craig Gentry;Bryan Parno;Mariana Raykova

934
Citations
Candidate Multilinear Maps from Ideal Lattices

Sanjam Garg;Craig Gentry;Shai Halevi

892
Citations
Computing arbitrary functions of encrypted data

Craig Gentry

883
Citations
Pinocchio: Nearly Practical Verifiable Computation.

Bryan Parno;Craig Gentry;Jon Howell;Mariana Raykova

10
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Shai Halevi Amazon (United States)

Zulfikar Ramzan NortonLifeLock (United States)

Mariana Raykova Google (United States)

Vinod Vaikuntanathan MIT

Amit Sahai University of California, Los Angeles

Sanjam Garg University of California, Berkeley

Brent Waters The University of Texas at Austin

Dan Boneh Stanford University

Daniel Wichs Northeastern University

Nigel P. Smart KU Leuven

External Links

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