Leonard M. Adleman
Henry Salvatori Professor of
Computer Science
And Professor of Molecular Biology
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California 90089-0781
Personal:
Born December 31, 1945 (San Francisco, Ca.). Married, 3 Children.
Education:
Ph.D.
Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1976.
Thesis: “Number Theoretic Aspects of Computational Complexity.”
Advisor: Manuel Blum.
B.S.
Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, 1968.
Professional Experience:
1980-Present University of Southern California
1985- Henry Salvatori Professor
1983- Professor
1980- Associate Professor (with tenure)
1976-1980 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Mathematics
1979- Associate Professor
1977- Assistant Professor
1976- Instructor
Professional Interests:
Algorithms
Computational Complexity
Computer Viruses
Cryptography
DNA Computing
Immunology
Molecular Biology
Number Theory
Quantum Computing
Current Grants:
NSF
Computational Complexity and its Relationship to Number Theory
9/15/94-8/31/00 (NO COST EXTENSION)
Total Award: $1,317,629
CCR-9403662
ONR/DARPA
Computational Aspects of Molecular Science
05/01/98-04/30/01
Total Award: $1,602,380
N00014-98-1-0664
JPL/NASA
Molecular Computation
04/10/98-12/31/00
Total Award: $492,327
961352
DARPA
High Speed Cell Analysis, BioSpice, Cellular Logic Devices ,and Exquisite Detection: Towards Interactive Biology
07/01/99-12/31/01
Total Award (for USC subcontract): $850,000 (approximately)
Patents:
“Cryptographic Communication System and Method” (with Rivest and
Shamir – assigned to MIT)
“Molecular Computation”, pending
Awards and Honors:
2000- IEEE Kobayashi Award for Computers and Communications (Joint with Rivest and Shamir).
2000- Distinguished Professor title University of Southern California
1997- RSA Chair created at MIT in honor of inventors of RSA Cryptosystem. (First holder: Professor Shafi Goildwasser – Dept. of Computer Science, MIT)
1996- ACM Paris Kanallakis Award for Theory and Practice. For work on Public-Key-Cryptography (joint with Diffie, Hellman, Merkle, Rivest and Shamir).+
1996- Elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
1995- Distinguished Alumnus Award
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
1991- Senior Research Award University of Southern California
School of Engineering
1978- Best paper award of the IEEE Group on Information Theory “A
Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key
Cryptosystems,” Communications of the ACM, 21(2):120-
126,(February) 1978. (with R. Rivest and A. Shamir).
