CIS Lab
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

Elette Boyle, Senior Research Scientist CIS Lab

Vipul Goyal, Senior Research Scientist CIS Lab

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.

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