Jonathan Katz (computer scientist)
| Jonathan Katz | |
|---|---|
| Born | USA |
| Residence | United States |
| Fields | Cryptography |
| Institutions | University of Maryland |
| Alma mater | BS MIT, 1996 Ph.D. Columbia University, 2002 |
| Doctoral advisor | Zvi Galil and Moti Yung |
Jonathan Katz is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences where he conducts research on cryptography and cybersecurity. In 2013 he became director of the Maryland Cybersecurity Center at the University of Maryland.
Katz received BS degrees in mathematics and chemistry from MIT in 1996, followed by a master's degree in chemistry from Columbia University in 1998. After transferring to the computer science department, he received M.Phil. and PhD degrees in computer science from Columbia University in 2001 and 2002, respectively. While in graduate school, he worked as a research scientist at Telcordia Technologies (now ACS). He has been on the faculty of the University of Maryland since 2002.
He has held visiting positions at UCLA, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, and the Ecole Normale Superieure. He was a member of the DARPA Computer Science Study Group in 2009-2010. He also works as a consultant in the fields of cryptography and computer security.
He received the Humboldt Research Award to support collaborative research with colleagues in Germany during 2015.
Katz has worked on various aspects of cryptography, computer security, and theoretical computer science. His doctoral thesis was on designing protocols secure against man-in-the-middle attacks, most notably describing an efficient protocol for password-based authenticated key exchange. He has also worked in the areas of secure multi-party computation, public-key encryption, and digital signatures. He has served on the program committees of numerous conferences, and is currently an editor of the Journal of Cryptology, the premier journal of the field.
He has written two books: a textbook on modern cryptography (with Yehuda Lindell) that is used in many universities around the world, and a monograph on digital signature schemes.
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