{"id":844,"date":"2021-02-11T10:10:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T15:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=844"},"modified":"2025-07-24T15:53:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:53:51","slug":"adam-smith","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/adam-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/profiles\/adam-smith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam Smith<\/a> is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. <span>His research interests lie in data privacy and cryptography, and their connections to machine learning, statistics, information theory, and quantum computing. <\/span>He obtained his Ph.D. from MIT in 2004 and has held visiting positions at the Weizmann Institute of Science, UCLA, and Harvard. He previously was a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State. He received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2009; a 2016 Theory of Cryptography Test of Time award; the 2019 Eurocrypt Test of Time award; and the 2017 G\u00f6del Prize.<\/p>\n<p>Link to personal site:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cs-people.bu.edu\/ads22\/\">http:\/\/cs-people.bu.edu\/ads22\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2023\/student-created-workshop-examines-equality-in-the-technology-industry\/\" class=\"button-primary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17518,"template":"","affiliation":[260],"other_affiliation":[],"responsibilities":[],"area":[],"bu_progs_area-of-interest":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17518"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9874,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/844\/revisions\/9874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"affiliation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/affiliation?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"other_affiliation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/other_affiliation?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"responsibilities","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/responsibilities?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"bu_progs_area-of-interest","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_progs_area-of-interest?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}