Çetin Kaya Koç

He received B.S. (1980, summa cum laude) and M.S. (1982) degrees in Electrical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, and M.S. (1985) and Ph.D. (1988) degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of California, Santa Barbara.

Dr. Koç has founded Information Security Laboratory to coordinate faculty and graduate student research efforts concentrated on cryptography, information security, and electronic commerce at Oregon State University. He received the OSU College of Engineering Research Award for Outstanding and Sustained Research Leadership in September 2001.

Dr. Koç's research interests are in cryptographic engineering, algorithms and architectures for computer arithmetic and finite fields, parallel algebraic computation, and network security. He has founded the Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES) in 1999 and has been the program chair and proceedings editor from 1999 to 2003. He is currently serving in the steering committee of CHES. The Proceedings of CHES Workshops are published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Dr. Koç was the Guest Editor of the special issue in April 2003 of IEEE Transactions on Computers on cryptographic hardware and embedded software development. Currently he is in the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Computers and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Dr. Koç is a senior member of IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.

Dr. Koç has been working as a consulting engineer with research and development interests in cryptographic engineering and embedded systems for several companies including Intel, RSA Security, and Samsung Electronics.

For papers, technical reports, and other information, please refer to Dr. Koç's personal web page: http://islab.oregonstate.edu/koc.

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