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Dan Boneh

Also known as דן בונה

Dan Boneh is a Stanford cryptographer whose security research reaches into adversarial training and AI coding assistants. He earned a PhD at Princeton in 1996 and joined the Stanford faculty in 1997. A 2013 Gödel Prize and a 2014 ACM Prize in Computing recognized his cryptography work. The National Academy of Engineering elected him in 2016. As of October 2026, he is the Rajeev Motwani Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford.

Timeline

  1. 1996

    A Princeton doctorate

    At Princeton in 1996, he earns a PhD in computer science under Richard J. Lipton.

  2. 1997–1999

    A Stanford faculty post

    He joins the Stanford faculty in 1997. In 1999 he receives a fellowship from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

  3. 2013–2014

    Gödel and ACM prizes

    He shares the 2013 Gödel Prize for multi-party Diffie–Hellman key exchange and the Boneh–Franklin scheme in cryptography. In 2014 the ACM Prize in Computing honors his work on pairing-based cryptography and its application in identity-based encryption.

  4. 2016

    Election to the NAE

    The National Academy of Engineering elects him in 2016 for contributions to the theory and practice of cryptography and computer security.

  5. May 2017

    Ensemble adversarial training

    He co-writes Ensemble Adversarial Training: Attacks and Defenses with Ian Goodfellow and four others, first submitted to arXiv in May 2017.

  6. November 2022

    AI coding assistants study

    He and his team share the findings of a study titled Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants? The preprint is first submitted to arXiv in November 2022.

  7. 2025

    Explanations for confidential models

    He co-writes ExpProof, a paper on operationalizing explanations for confidential models with ZKPs, first submitted to arXiv in February 2025.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor at Stanford

    He is the Rajeev Motwani Professor in the School of Engineering and a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford. He co-directs the Stanford Computer Security Lab.

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  1. Dan Boneh - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. Dan Boneh's Profile | Stanford Profiles profiles.stanford.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. Gödel Prize - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. ACM Prize in Computing - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. [1705.07204] Ensemble Adversarial Training: Attacks and Defenses arxiv.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. Ensemble Adversarial Training: Attacks and Defenses | ML Anthology mlanthology.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  7. Dan Boneh and team find relying on AI is more likely to make your code buggier | Stanford Electrical Engineering ee.stanford.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  8. [2211.03622] Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants? arxiv.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  9. [2502.03773] ExpProof : Operationalizing Explanations for Confidential Models with ZKPs arxiv.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  10. ExpProof : Operationalizing Explanations for Confidential Models with ZKPs | ML Anthology mlanthology.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  11. Dan Boneh | FSI fsi.stanford.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.