Brief Biography
Çetin
Kaya Koç (Koç ~ coach) received his Ph.D. in Electrical
& Computer Engineering from University of California Santa
Barbara in 1988. He was an Assistant Professor at University of
Houston (1988-1992), Assistant, Associate and Full Professor at
Oregon State University (1992-2007). He established Information
Security Laboratory at OSU, and graduated 14 Ph.D. students, 8 of who
are currently professors. In September 2001, he received OSU College
of Engineering Research Award for Outstanding and Sustained Research
Leadership. His research interests are in algorithms and
architectures for cryptography, computer arithmetic and embedded
systems. He has co-founded Workshop on
Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (chesworkshop.org)
in 1999 and has been the program chair and proceedings editor from
1999 to 2003. He is now a permanent member of the steering committee
of CHES. Recently, he has also co-founded a new conference,
International Workshop on the Arithmetic
of Finite Fields (waifi.org), which is
a forum of engineers and mathematicians interested in efficient
software and hardware realizations of finite fields. He has
co-authored one book, Cryptographic
Algorithms on Reconfigurable Hardware,
published by Springer. His second book, Cryptographic
Engineering, is soon to be published by
Springer. He has been an associate editor of IEEE
Transactions on Computers and IEEE
Transactions on Mobile Computing, and
guest co-editor of two issues (in 2003 & 2008) of IEEE
Transactions on Computers on
cryptographic and cryptanalytic hardware and embedded systems. He is
an IEEE Fellow
since 2007 for contributions
to cryptographic engineering.
Currently, Dr. Koç is the Dean of Graduate School at City
University of Istanbul and an adjunct professor of Computer Science
at University of California Santa Barbara.
