Professor Jonathan Katz recipient of Humboldt Award

Professor Jonathan Katz (CS, UMIACS), who also currently serves as the Director of the Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MC2), is the recipient of a Humboldt Award for 2015.  This award will allow him to travel to Germany to work on a long term research project with his collaborators Professors Michael Backes and Dominique Shroeder at Saarland University.

Katz has been recognized for his outstanding work and impressive body of research. The awards committee also strongly believes that he will continue to produce ground-breaking work in the future. The Alexander von Humboldt foundation provides 100 research awards annually to scholars from outside Germany.

While heading up his own active research group and leading MC2, Katz has produced a second edition of his Introduction to Modern Cryptography, which he wrote with Yehuda Lindell. He is also currently an editor of the Journal on Cryptology. 

After completing his PhD in Computer Science at Columbia University, Katz joined the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland in 2002.  He began serving as the Director of the Maryland Cybersecurity Center in October of 2013.  In November of 2014, he taught a very popular 10-week Cryptography course on Coursera, which had over 35,000 students participating.

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About the Humboldt Award:

The award is granted in recognition of a researcher's entire achievements to date to academics whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements in the future.