Dan Boneh is a professor of computer science at Stanford University, where he heads the applied cryptography group. Boneh's research focuses on applications of cryptography to computer security. His work includes cryptosystems with novel properties, security for mobile devices, web security, and cryptanalysis. He is the author of over a hundred publications in the field, and is a recipient of the Gödel Prize, the Packard Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Award, the RSA Award in mathematics, the Ishii Award for industry education innovation, and five best paper awards. Most recently he was awarded the 2014 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in Computing Sciences.