Dan Boneh

Boneh received his PhD from Princeton UniversityPrinceton UniversityPrinceton University is a private university and Ivy League member in Princeton, New Jersey. Chartered on October 22, 1746 as the College of New Jersey, it moved to Princeton in 1756 and adopted its present name in 1896. Undergraduate education leads to A.B. and B.S.E. degrees and emphasizes small-group discussion, independent research and residential college life. Graduate education spans the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering. As of October 2026, Christopher L. Eisgruber was president. Its 2026–27 operating budget was $3.407 billion, including $342 million for undergraduate aid.Open the full entry in 1996 and joined Stanford University in 1997.⁠[1]

Boneh is a professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford, where he heads the applied cryptography group and co-directs the computer security lab. His research applies cryptography to computer security, covering cryptosystems with novel properties, web security, mobile device security and cryptanalysis, and he has written more than a hundred publications.⁠[1]

At Stanford he teaches or has taught courses including CS255 “Introduction to Cryptography,” CS155 “Computer and Network Security” and CS251 “Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technologies,” runs a bi-weekly public computer security seminar, and offers an online cryptography course on Coursera.⁠[2]

On May 21, 2021, a16z published “NBANBAThe National Basketball Association (NBA) is a North American professional basketball league with 30 teams.Open the full entry Top Shot and the Flow Blockchain,” a video featuring Boneh, on its YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is Google’s video-sharing and creator platform, founded in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim and acquired by Google in 2006. Built around video uploading, viewing, and creator earnings, the platform has developed Shorts, YouTube Music, Premium, YouTube TV, and products for children, and is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.Open the full entry channel, on NBA Top Shot and the Flow blockchain.⁠[3]

On November 8, 2021, a16z published “Scaling Up Blockchains with Zero-Knowledge Proofs,” a video featuring Boneh, on its YouTube channel, on using zero-knowledge proofs to scale blockchains.⁠[4]

Boneh serves as a senior research advisor at a16z.⁠[5]

Boneh’s honors include the 2006 Computerworld Horizon Award, the 2011 Ishii Award for Industry Education Innovation, the 2013 Gödel Prize, fellowship of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) in 2013, the 2014 ACMAustralian Community MediaAustralian Community Media (ACM) is an Australian regional and rural news publishing group with more than 100 brands, including The Canberra Times; in 2019 Nine sold it to a company controlled by interests associated with Antony Catalano and Thorney Investment Group.Open the full entry Prize and a 2015 Simons Investigator award from the Simons Foundation; he has also been a Packard Fellow and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow.⁠[1][5]

Personal website: https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/ (opens in a new window).⁠[2]

LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dan-boneh/20/990/8b5 (opens in a new window).⁠[5]