Stephen Pohlig was a Senior Technical Staff Member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he contributed to advanced signal processing and communications systems research. Pohlig earned his undergraduate degree before completing his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Stanford University, where his fellowship began in 1974. He is best known for the Pohlig-Hellman algorithm, co-developed with Martin Hellman, for efficiently computing discrete logarithms in groups of smooth order—a fundamental result in computational number theory with direct implications for public-key cryptography.
Stephen Pohlig
1974 HERTZ FELLOW
MAKING HISTORY
EDUCATION
Graduate Studies
Stanford University
Electrical Engineering
Graduate Thesis
Algebraic and Combinatoric Aspects of Cryptography
IMPACT STORY
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