Adam Smith

Professor,

Boston University

Adam Smith is a professor of computer science at Boston University. From 2007 to 2017, he served on the faculty of the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Penn State. His research interests lie in data privacy and cryptography, and their connections to machine learning, statistics, information theory, and quantum computing. He obtained his Ph.D. from MIT in 2004 and has held postdoc and visiting positions at the Weizmann Institute of Science, UCLA, Boston University, Harvard and Google Deepmind. His work received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2009; test of time awards at Theory of Cryptography 2016 and Eurocrypt 2019; the 2017 Gödel Prize; and the 2021 Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award. He is a Fellow of the ACM.

Program Visits

Federated and Collaborative Learning, Spring 2026, Visiting Scientist

Data Privacy: Foundations and Applications, Spring 2019, Visiting Scientist and Program Organizer

Summer Cluster: Algorithmic Fairness, Summer 2018