Daniel Wichs

Professor, Northeastern University

Daniel Wichs is a professor at the Khoury College of Computer Science at Northeastern University (Boston, MA USA), where he has been a faculty member since January, 2013. He is also a senior scientist at NTT Research. He received his PhD from NYU in 2011, advised by Yevgeniy Dodis, and spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher in the cryptography group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He is the recipient of the best paper award at STOC 2023, the JP Morgan Faculty Research Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, the IBM Josef Raviv Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship, and the NYU Janet Fabri Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in Computer Science. His research interests lie broadly in the area of cryptography, including its theoretical foundations and its applications to information security, with an emphasis on cryptosystems that enable computation over encrypted data. He has over 100 publications, mainly at top-tier venues such as CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT, STOC, FOCS, with over 10,000 citations and an H-index of 50.

Program Visits

Cryptography 10 Years Later: Obfuscation, Proof Systems, and Secure Computation, Summer 2025, Visiting Scientist