We make data secure
CIS LAB
Our Mission
Our Cryptography and Information Security (CIS) Laboratories embark on a journey to a more secure future for everyone. Directed by NTT Fellow Brent Waters, our goal is to become the premier cryptography research laboratory in the world.
At NTT Research, our CIS lab sees cryptography as essential to a Smart World. As every human being is touched by technology in ways far beyond our current experience, security and privacy protection are at the core of our shared future.
By engaging only the strongest and most dedicated researchers, our lab focuses on foundational research problems in cryptography to deliver long term impact.
We explore attribute-based encryption, homomorphic encryption, and functional encryption regarding security and privacy. We are the elite in this space, but only by remaining open to discovery in unexpected places. Will quantum play a role? What will we do with blockchain? What we expect to discover along this journey will change what it means to trust.
Brent Waters
Director
CIS Research Videos
Pratish Datta, Research Scientist, CIS LAB
The advent of quantum computing will render all of today’s conventional encryption schemes obsolete. Pratish designs and analyzes encryption schemes that work today and will stand up to quantum computing tomorrow.
Go Yamamoto, Senior Research Scientist, CIS LAB
Go is on a mission to fix the internet. His research on Blockchain takes advantage of its ability to realize autonomous synchronization without membership in order to give everyone access to all that the internet offers.
Justin Holmgren, Research Scientist, CIS Lab
Justin explains the importance of proof systems in encryption and why the CIS Lab is well-suited to developing an upgrade to computer security without fear.
Ilan Komargodski, Research Scientist, CIS Lab
Ilan explains the need for cryptography to meet the challenges data security faces today. Using methods like homomorphic encryption, NTT Research hopes to achieve guaranteed security
