Aayush Jain has received the 2022 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation “Indistinguishability Obfuscation From Well-Studied Assumptions,” which established the feasibility of mathematically rigorous software obfuscation from well-studied hardness conjectures.

Honourable Mentions for the 2022 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award go to Alane Suhr an Assistant Professor at the University of California for her dissertation, “Reasoning and Learning in Interactive Natural Language Systems,” Berkeley, and Conrad Watt, a Research Fellow (postdoctoral) at the University of Cambridge, for his dissertation, “Mechanising and Evolving the Formal Semantics of WebAssembly: The Web’s New Low-Level Language.”

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Aayush Jain has received the 2022 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation “Indistinguishability Obfuscation From Well-Studied Assumptions,” which established the feasibility of mathematically rigorous software obfuscation from well-studied hardness conjectures.

Honourable Mentions for the 2022 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award go to Alane Suhr an Assistant Professor at the University of California for her dissertation, “Reasoning and Learning in Interactive Natural Language Systems,” Berkeley, and Conrad Watt, a Research Fellow (postdoctoral) at the University of Cambridge, for his dissertation, “Mechanising and Evolving the Formal Semantics of WebAssembly: The Web’s New Low-Level Language.”

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