Amit Saha

Amit Sahai (born 1974) is an Indian-American computer scientist and cryptographer, serving as a professor of computer science and (by courtesy) mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he holds the Symantec Endowed Chair and directs the Center for Encrypted Functionalities.[1] He is renowned for foundational contributions to cryptography, including the co-invention of indistinguishability obfuscation, attribute-based encryption, and functional encryption, and in 2020 resolved a central open problem by constructing indistinguishability obfuscation from well-founded assumptions.[1] Sahai is a Fellow of the ACM and the International Association for Cryptologic Research, a Simons Investigator, recipient of the 2022 Michael and Sheila Held Prize, and delivered an invited lecture at the 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians.[1]