Jung Hee Cheon

Jung Hee Cheon
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Born (1969-06-11) June 11, 1969
South Korea
Alma materKAIST
Known forthe CKKS scheme, the 4th generation FHE
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, Cryptology
InstitutionsSeoul National University
Thesis The order of the reduction of a point in the Mordell-Weil group of an elliptic curve  (1997)
Doctoral advisorSang-Geun Han
Websiteweb.math.snu.ac.kr/~jhcheon/

Jung Hee Cheon (born 1969) is a South Korean professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, the director of Industrial & Mathematical Data Analytics Research Center (IMDARC) at Seoul National University (SNU), and CEO of CryptoLab. His research interests include computational number theory, cryptology, and information security. He is one of the co-inventors of HEaaN.