Adam D. Smith

Adam Davison Smith
Alma materMcGill University (BSc)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsBoston University
Thesis Maintaining Secrecy when Information Leakage is Unavoidable  (2004)
Doctoral advisorMadhu Sudan
Websitecs-people.bu.edu/ads22//index.html

Adam D. Smith is a computer scientist at Boston University, where he is a founding member of the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences. His areas of research include cryptography and information privacy. He is known, along with Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, and Kobbi Nissim, as one of the co-inventors of differential privacy, for which he won the 2017 Gödel Prize.[1]

References

  1. ^ Chita, Efi. "2017 Gödel Prize". Eatcs.org. Retrieved 19 Oct 2020.


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