Jonathan Katz

Jonathan Katz is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland and serves as the director of the Maryland Cybersecurity Center. He earned his undergraduate degrees from MIT in 1996 and completed his PhD at Columbia University in 2002. Katz has held visiting positions at prestigious institutions, including UCLA, Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, and IBM. His research encompasses cryptography, privacy, and computer network security, with recent focuses on secure multi-party computation and database privacy. He co-authored the widely-used textbook "Introduction to Modern Cryptography" and has conducted tutorials on cryptography for diverse audiences across industry, academia, and government.