Adam Davison Smith
Alma materMcGill University (BSc)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsBoston University
ThesisMaintaining 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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