Biography:Adam D. Smith

Short description: American computer scientist

Adam Davison Smith
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.bu.edu/ads22//index.html

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.