Dan Boneh *96

Dan Boneh *96
Motwani Professor of Computer Science and Co-director, Computer Security Lab
Stanford University

Dr. Boneh is the Motwani Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University where he heads the applied cryptography group and co-directs the computer security lab.  Dr. Boneh's research focuses on applications of cryptography to computer security.  His work includes cryptosystems with novel properties, security for mobile devices, web security, and cryptanalysis.  He is the author of over a 150 publications in the field and is a recipient of the 2014 ACM prize, the 2013 Godel prize, the RSA award in mathematics, and six best paper awards. In 2016 Dr. Boneh was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Boneh received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1996 and joined the faculty at Stanford in the following year.