Amit Sahai

Amit Sahai is a professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and the director of the Center for Encrypted Functionalities, a National Science Foundation Frontiers Center. His research interests include the foundations of computer security and cryptography, particularly secure program obfuscation, cryptographic proofs, and secure multiparty computation. Sahai is the co-inventor of attribute-based encryption, functional encryption, and indistinguishability obfuscation. He is also the Symantec Endowed Chair in Computer Science and a Simons Investigator. Prior to joining UCLA in 2004, he was on the faculty at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from MIT in 2000 and has published over 150 technical research papers. He serves as an editor of J. Cryptology and is an advisor to the Prison Mathematics Project.

Amit Sahai is a Symantec Chair in Computer Science and Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at UCLA. His research focuses on cryptography, theoretical computer science, computational complexity, and secure computation. Sahai's work explores advanced cryptographic techniques such as attribute-based encryption, homomorphic encryption, and functional encryption. He has made significant contributions to secure computation, obfuscation, and zero-knowledge proofs. His research addresses challenges in privacy-preserving computation, secure data access, and cryptographic primitives with strong security guarantees. Sahai's publications often intersect with computational complexity and theoretical foundations of cryptography, emphasizing the development of efficient and secure cryptographic systems.