Joseph H. Silverman

Who is Joseph H. Silverman?

Joseph Hillel Silverman is a professor of mathematics at Brown University. Joseph Silverman received an Sc.B. from Brown University in 1977 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1982 under the direction of John Tate. He taught at M.I.T. and at Boston University before taking a position at Brown in 1988.

Silverman's work has been in number theory, arithmetic geometry, arithmetic dynamics and cryptography. He has published more than 100 research articles, written or coauthored six books, and edited three conference proceedings.

In 1996, Silverman, along with Jeffrey Hoffstein, Jill Pipher and Daniel Lieman, founded NTRU Cryptosystems, Inc. to market their cryptographic algorithms, NTRUEncrypt and NTRUSign.

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.