Craig Gentry received a BS (1995) from Duke University, a JD (1998) from Harvard Law School, and a PhD (2009) from Stanford University. Prior to his PhD, he worked as an intellectual property lawyer (1998–2000) and as a senior research engineer for DoCoMo USA Labs (2000–2005). He is currently a research scientist in the Cryptography Research Group at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. His scientific research has appeared in proceedings such as STOC (Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing), FOCS (Proceedings of the Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science), Crypto, and Eurocrypt, among others. - See more at: http://www.macfound.org/fellows/914/#sthash.YW7tkcXi.dpuf