Adam Davison Smith | |
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| Alma mater | McGill University (BSc) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Boston University |
| Thesis | Maintaining Secrecy when Information Leakage is Unavoidable (2004) |
| Doctoral advisor | Madhu Sudan |
| Website | cs-people |
Adam D. Smith is a computer scientist at Boston University, where he is a founding member of the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences. His areas of research include cryptography and information privacy. He is known, along with Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, and Kobbi Nissim, as one of the co-inventors of differential privacy, for which he won the 2017 Gödel Prize.[1]