Selected Honors of Amit Sahai:
Incumbent of Symantec Endowed Chair of Computer Science (2019-present)
2024 EMNLP Outstanding Paper Award
2024 CACM Research Highlight (with Lin and Jain)
2024 STOC Test of Time Award (with Waters)
Fellow of the AMS (2024)
Held Prize Lecture, delivered at FOCS 2023
2023 FOCS Test of Time Award (with Garg, Genty, Halevi, Raykova, and
Waters)
2023 IACR Test of Time Award, Eurocrypt (with Groth)
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar, Ranked 1st Worldwide in Theory
2023 Pazy Memorial Award (with Ishai, Kushilevitz, and Ostrovsky)
Invited lecturer (special sectional) at the International
Congress of Mathematicians 2022, ICM 2022 (with Lin)
2022 National Academy of Sciences Held Prize
2022 WIRED outreach video on Zero Knowledge Proofs with over 6 million
views
Simons Investigator (2021)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (2021)
STOC 2021 Best Paper Award (with Jain and Lin)
2021 Harvard Mathematics CMSA Math Science Literature Series, Invited
Lecture
2020 IACR Test of Time Award, Eurocrypt (with Waters)
Fellow of the IACR (2019)
Fellow of the ACM (2018)
2016 ACM CCS Test of Time Award (with Goyal, Pandey, and Waters)
2016 Lockheed Martin Excellence
in Teaching Award from the Samueli School of Engineering at UCLA
2016 CACM Research Highlight (with Garg, Gentry, Halevi, Raykova, and
Waters)
Lead PI, 2014 NSF Frontier Award establishing Center for Encrypted Functionalities
2012 Pazy Memorial Award (with Ishai, Kushilevitz, and Ostrovsky)
2007 Okawa Research Grant Award
2002 Alfred P. Sloan Fellow
Recipient of Google, Xerox, and AWS Faculty Research Awards.