Sergey Gorbunov
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| 🏳️ Citizenship | Canadian |
| 💼 Occupation | Computer scientist |
| 🌐 Website | sergeyg |
Sergey Gorbunov is a Canadian computer scientist and professor known for his work in cryptography and distributed systems. He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo.[1]
Education
Gorbunov graduated with an B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto.[2] In 2015, he received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he studied lattice-based cryptography and cloud security under Vinod Vaikuntanathan.[3] His doctoral dissertation received the George M. Sprowls Award for best thesis in computer science at MIT.[4] During his graduate studies, he was a Microsoft Ph.D. fellow.[5][6]
Career
Gorbunov's research focuses on cryptographic protocols for secure data sharing, verifiable computation, and privacy-preserving technologies. He has contributed to the standardization of Boneh-Lynn-Shacham (BLS) signatures[7], which has been adopted by Ethereum.[8] He has contributed to efforts to standardize homomorphic encryption, a technique relevant for secure computation on encrypted data in cloud environments.[9]
As of 2025, Gorbunov is an Associate Professor at University of Waterloo, where he has taught a variety of computer science courses, primarily focusing on computer security, networks, and cryptography.[10]
Gorbunov also co-founded Axelar, a decentralized interoperability network protocol,[11] and was a founding team member of Algorand, where he served as Chief Cryptographer. At Algorand, he worked on the development of proof-of-stake protocols.[12]
Publications
Gorbunov's academic publications include work on functional encryption, attribute-based encryption, and secure hardware-assisted cryptography using Intel SGX.[13] A 2015 paper co-authored by Gorbunov in the Journal of the ACM presented a construction for attribute-based encryption for general circuits.[14]
Some of Gorbunov's publications include:[15]
- Tootoonchian, Amin; Gorbunov, Sergey; Ganjali, Yashar; Casado, Martin; Sherwood, Rob (2012). "On Controller Performance in {Software-Defined} Networks". USENIX.
- Boneh, Dan; Gentry, Craig; Gorbunov, Sergey; Halevi, Shai; Nikolaenko, Valeria; Segev, Gil; Vaikuntanathan, Vinod; Vinayagamurthy, Dhinakaran (2014). "Fully Key-Homomorphic Encryption, Arithmetic Circuit ABE and Compact Garbled Circuits". Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2014. 8441. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 533–556. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-55220-5_30. ISBN 978-3-642-55219-9. Search this book on
- Gorbunov, Sergey; Vaikuntanathan, Vinod; Wee, Hoeteck (December 10, 2015). "Attribute-Based Encryption for Circuits". Journal of the ACM. 62 (6): 1–33. doi:10.1145/2824233. ISSN 0004-5411.
- Albrecht, Martin; Chase, Melissa; Chen, Hao; Ding, Jintai; Goldwasser, Shafi; Gorbunov, Sergey; Halevi, Shai; Hoffstein, Jeffrey; Laine, Kim; Lauter, Kristin; Lokam, Satya; Micciancio, Daniele; Moody, Dustin; Morrison, Travis; Sahai, Amit; Vaikuntanathan, Vinod (2019). "Homomorphic Encryption Standard". Cryptology ePrint Archive.
References
- ↑ Jafri, Sidra (February 6, 2025). "New UW computer science lab hopes to advance AI, cryptocurrency research". CTVNews. Retrieved November 7, 2025.
- ↑ "Homepage of Sergey Gorbunov". Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. Retrieved November 7, 2025.
- ↑ "Sergey Gorbunov". Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. Retrieved November 7, 2025.
- ↑ "Cryptographic tools for the cloud". DSpace@MIT. 2015. hdl:1721.1/99825. Retrieved November 7, 2025.
- ↑ "Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship". Microsoft.
- ↑ "Sergey Gorbunov". IEEETV. Retrieved November 7, 2025.
- ↑ Boneh, Dan; Wahby, Riad S.; Gorbunov, Sergey; Wee, Hoeteck; Zhang, Zhenfei (February 9, 2020). "draft-irtf-cfrg-bls-signature-00.txt". IETF Datatracker. Retrieved November 7, 2025.
- ↑ "2.9.1 BLS Signatures". Upgrading Ethereum. September 1, 2025. Retrieved November 7, 2025.
- ↑ Albrecht, Martin; Chase, Melissa; Chen, Hao; Ding, Jintai; Goldwasser, Shafi; Gorbunov, Sergey; Halevi, Shai; Hoffstein, Jeffrey; Laine, Kim; Lauter, Kristin; Lokam, Satya; Micciancio, Daniele; Moody, Dustin; Morrison, Travis; Sahai, Amit; Vaikuntanathan, Vinod (2019). "Homomorphic Encryption Standard". Cryptology ePrint Archive. Retrieved November 7, 2025.
- ↑ "Cheriton School of Computer Science". University of Waterloo. June 3, 2025. Retrieved November 7, 2025.
- ↑ "SE Radio 500: Sergey Gorbuno". Software Engineering Radio. February 23, 2022. Retrieved November 7, 2025.
- ↑ "Sergey Gorbunov". University of Waterloo. Retrieved November 7, 2025.
- ↑ Refine list (November 6, 2025). "dblp: Sergey Gorbunov 0001". dblp. Retrieved November 7, 2025.
- ↑ Gorbunov, Sergey; Vaikuntanathan, Vinod; Wee, Hoeteck (2015). "Attribute-Based Encryption for Circuits". Journal of the ACM. 62 (6): 1–33. doi:10.1145/2824233.
- ↑ "Sergey Gorbunov". Google Scholar.
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