معرفی
Prof. Sanjam Garg is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the Computer Science Division under the College of Engineering. His work focuses on cryptography and its applications to security and privacy, with affiliations to the Berkeley Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence (RDI) and the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing (SITC).
- Education:
- Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles (2013)
- B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (2008)
His research spans cryptography, secure computation, and zero-knowledge proofs, with recent publications on threshold encryption, zkSNARKs, and private set intersection. Trends in his work emphasize blockchain security, obfuscation, and secure multiparty computation.
Scientific Honors:
- ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (2013)
- Sloan Research Fellowship (2020)
- Okawa Research Grant (2016)
- IACR EUROCRYPT Best Paper Award (2013)
- FOCS Test of Time Award (2023)
- Bakar Fellows Spark Award (2023)
Prof. Garg has advised researchers like James Bartusek (2024), Akshayaram Srinivasan (2020), and Peihan Miao (2019), who are now at institutions such as Microsoft Research and University of Toronto. He teaches CS 170 on algorithms at Berkeley.
