Scienceצביקה ברקרסקי

Zvika Brakerski

Zvika Brakerski is an Israeli computer scientist and cryptographer at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for his work on fully homomorphic encryption.

Fully homomorphic encryptionThe BGV encryption schemeThe BFV encryption schemeThe 2022 Gödel Prize

Occupation: mathematician, computer scientist
Education: Tel Aviv University, Weizmann Institute of Science

The story of Zvika Brakerski's life

Zvika Brakerski was born in 1981. He began his studies at Tel Aviv University in 1997 and earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science there in 2001. In 2002 he completed a master's degree in electrical engineering under Prof. Boaz Patt-Shamir.

He started doctoral studies at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2008 and received his PhD in 2011, supervised by Prof. Shafi Goldwasser. From 2011 to 2013 he was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University with Prof. Dan Boneh.

In 2013 he joined the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute, where he is an associate professor. His research covers the foundations of computer science, cryptography and quantum computing. In 2011 he and Vinod Vaikuntanathan presented a fully homomorphic encryption scheme based on the learning with errors problem, and with Craig Gentry they later built the BGV scheme.

A 2012 paper by Brakerski became the basis of the BFV scheme. He received the Krill Prize in 2017 and shared the Gödel Prize in 2022 with Gentry and Vaikuntanathan. In 2023 he won the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in Israel.