headshot of Cetin Kaya Koc, from the shoulders up, wearing a pin-striped collared shirt and a black blazer
Researcher
He/His/Him
cetinkoc@ucsb.edu
https://koclab.net/koc.html
Education
Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering, UC Santa Barbara (1988)
Bio
Çetin Kaya Koç received a B.S. (summa cum laude) degree in Electrical Enginering from İstanbul Technical University (1980) and a Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara (1988). His research interests include cryptographic engineering, random number generators, finite field and ring arithmetic, homomorphic encryption and machine learning.

 

Koç was an Assistant Professor at the University of Houston (1988-1992), Assistant, Associate and Full Professor at Oregon State University (1992-2007). He established Information Security Laboratory at Oregon State University, and received Award for Outstanding and Sustained Research Leadership in September 2001. His current research is funded by several international research organizations, performed within Koç Lab that includes postdoctoral researchers, PhD and MS candidates, and advanced undergraduate students.

 

Koç is the co-founder of the Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems which the second largest cryptography conference in the world. Koç is also co-founder of International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Fields (WAIFI), Security Proofs for Embedded Systems (PROOFS), and Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security, that cover efficient software and hardware realizations of finite fields, and methodologies to increase the confidence level in the security of embedded systems and hardware cryptography. Koç also organized and chaired Open Problems in Mathematical and Computational Sciences Conference, held in September 18-20, 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey and Cyber-Physical Security Education Workshop, held in July 17-19, 2017 in Paris, France.