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Biography
Chris Peikert received his PhD in Computer Science from MIT in 2006, following undergraduate studies in CS and Mathematics (also at MIT). His research interests include cryptography, computational complexity, and algorithms, especially in relation to lattices, error-correcting codes, geometry and number theory. Chris was most recently employed by the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI International.
Computer Science Ph.D. Committee Member
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- KACB Office 3146
cpeikert [at] cc [dot] gatech [dot] edu (Send Email)
Affiliations
- School of Computer Science
- Georgia Tech Information Security Center
- College of Computing
- Algorithms & Randomness Center and Thinktank (ARC)

