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Dan Boneh

Dan Boneh is an Israeli American computer scientist and Stanford University professor known for his work in cryptography and computer security.

born 1969Pairing-based cryptographyThe Boneh-Franklin schemeCo-founding Voltage SecurityFree online cryptography course

Occupation: cryptographer, mathematician, computer scientist, university teacher
Education: Princeton University, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Dan Boneh was born in 1969 in Israel

Dan Boneh was born in Israel in 1969. He earned a Ph.D. in computer science from Princeton University in 1996, supervised by Richard J. Lipton.

He joined the Stanford University faculty in 1997 and became a professor of computer science and electrical engineering. With Matt Franklin, he was a main contributor to pairing-based cryptography and developed the Boneh-Franklin scheme. He also offers his introductory cryptography course online for free, including on Coursera.

In 2002 he co-founded Voltage Security with three of his students, and Hewlett-Packard acquired it in 2015. In 2018 he became co-director, with David Mazières, of the new Center for Blockchain Research at Stanford.

He received the Gödel Prize in 2013 and the ACM Prize in Computing in 2014. In 2016 he was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering and named an ACM Fellow.