Brent Waters

Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Distinguished Scientist, NTT Research

Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin
2317 Speedway, Stop D9500
Austin TX 78712

bwaters@cs.utexas.edu

Selected Awards

IEEE Fellow (2025)
IACR Fellow (2024)
ACM Fellow (2021)
Simons Investigator (2019)
Grace Murray Hopper Award (2015)
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) (2011)
Packard Fellowship (2011)
Microsoft Faculty Fellowship (2011)
Sloan Fellowship (2010)

Current Ph.D. Students

Past Ph.D. Students

Rachit Garg, Ph.D. 2024
Satya Vusirikala, Ph.D. 2021, Now at Aptos Labs
Rishab Goyal, Ph.D. 2019, Now an assistant professor at UW Madison
Venkata Koppula, Ph.D. 2018, Now at IIT Delhi
Yannis Rouselakis, Ph.D. 2013, Now at NTT Research Technology Promotion
Allison Bishop, Ph.D. 2012, Founder and President of Proof Trading