Matthew Green, a cryptographer and an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Johns Hopkins University, has received a $100,000 Security and Privacy Research Award from Google in recognition of his significant contributions to the field of cybersecurity.
Google created the award program in 2016 to accelerate the next generation of security and privacy breakthroughs, as cutting-edge research plays a key role in advancing the security and privacy of users across the internet.
“This kind of work encourages a useful interaction between academia and companies that actually deploy products that keep people secure,” says Green. “It’s important because it allows researchers to do the kind of work that directly benefits end users by proving technology to companies that can deploy it in real projects.”
Green was selected for through internal nominations and voting at Google. While the award program is relatively new, it lays the groundwork for important academic research that will help improve data privacy and security for years to come.
“This award will support my general research into applied cryptography—specifically, finding new and efficient techniques to build privacy technologies that can make normal computing more private,” says Green.