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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.
Koç now has positions in multiple organizations, and his
research is funded by several institutions, 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 (1999) which is
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 (ASHES), 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 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.
Koç is the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cryptographic
Engineering, published by Springer since 2011, with focus on
cryptographic hardware and software development. Koç was
elected as an
IEEE Fellow in 2007 and
IEEE Life Fellow
in 2023 for his contributions to cryptographic engineering.
Koç was in the editorial boards of
IEEE
Transactions on Computers (2003-2008 and 2015-2019) and
IEEE
Transactions on Mobile Computing (2003-2007).
He was a guest co-editor of
April
2003,
November
2008, and
November
2018 issues of the IEEE Transactions on Computers
on cryptographic hardware and embedded systems,
special-purpose hardware for cryptography and cryptanalysis,
and cryptographic engineering in a post-quantum world.
Furthermore, Koç was in the editorial board of
International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science
(2016-2021). Currently, he is in the editorial board of
Transactions of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
since June 2019.
Koç was a member of RSA Labs from 1991 to 1997, which was
established and directed by Ron Rivest for developing the
first unique cryptographic software implementations.
At RSA Labs and later independently, Koç has designed,
developed or made contributions to more than 50
cryptographic software and hardware systems. Among them are
the cryptographic layers for RSAREF and BSAFE (RSA Labs),
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy),
CDSA (Intel), TOR (The Onion Routing), and also tens of embedded
software and hardware IP cores. According to an estimation made in
2003, there were more than 4.5 billion copies of BSAFE running on
devices and computers. The IP cores containing algorithms and
architectures designed by Koç are found in products made
by several companies including Texas Instruments, Intel, Samsung
and Huawei. These algorithms and architectures are subjects of
13
US patents Koç co-authored.
Koç is the co-author of 5 books published by Springer:
Cryptographic Algorithms on Reconfigurable Hardware (2007),
Cryptographic Engineering (2009),
Open Problems in Mathematics and Computational Science (2014),
Cyber-Physical Systems Security (2018), and
Partially Homomorphic Encryption (2021).
Among them, Cryptographic Engineering is currently being
translated to Chinese.
In addition to contributing to
7
conference proceedings as co-editor,
Koç has authored
94
journal articles,
66
conference articles,
13
book chapters, and
17
technical reports.
Koç supervised
21
PhD students and
40
MS students, and directed research theses of
6
undergraduate students.
He is among the top 3 scientists that supervised most
doctoral theses in cryptography.
His Google Scholar h-index is
47.
According to the Stanford PLOS 2019 study,
Koç is in the rank 103 among 17,080 computer science researchers
receiving the highest citation in the world.
Elsevier 2021
study gives Koç the rank of 96,710 among 200,000
the highest cited scientists in all fields.
Furthermore, his recognition
rank was 2,812 within 546,033 computer experts.
Koç is among the top
100
Turkish scientists with most citations.
He received the prestigious
International Fellowship for Outstanding Researchers award from
TÜBİTAK (Turkish Scientific and Technological Research
Council) in January 2020.
* Koç is pronounced as "Coach"
* Biography in Turkish: Özgeçmiş
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