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CryptoCode team members are scientists and engineers with M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering or computer science. Our team members have 5-20 years of experience in secure hardware design, side-channel attacks and countermeasures, algorithms and architectures for multimedia coding and compression, cryptography, computer arithmetic and finite fields.
Çetin Kaya Koç is the founder and principal architect of CryptoCode. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from University of California Santa Barbara. He is the co-founder of the CHES (Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems) Workshop, an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to cryptographic engineering, and the author and co-author of 8 books, 120 papers, and 8 patents.
Berk Sunar received his Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Oregon State University in 1998. His research and development interests include applied cryptography and information security, tamper-resilient cryptographic hardware, and efficient architectures and arithmetic algorithms for cryptography
Albert Levi received his Ph.D in Computer Science from Boğaziçi University in 1999 and was a postdoctoral researcher at Oregon State University. His research interests include information and network security, privacy and security in wireless and ad hoc sensor networks, public-key infrastructures, and e-mail security.
Erkay Savaş received his Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Oregon State University in 2000. His research and development interests include cryptographic hardware and embedded systems, computer arithmetic, stream ciphers, computer security and privacy.
Tuğrul Yanık received his Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Oregon State University in 2001. His research and development interests include computer security, cryptography, computer arithmetic and architecture, error-correcting codes, and audio and video encoding and decoding.
Serdar Erdem received his Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Oregon State University in 2001. His research and development interests include computer arithmetic, finite fields, elliptic curve cryptography, error control codes, and information theory.
Sıddıka Berna Örs Yalçın received her Ph.D. in Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 2005. Her research and development interests include hardware implementations of secret-key and public-key cryptography, and side-channel attacks and countermeasures.
Gökay Saldamlı received his Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Oregon State University in 2005. His research and development interests include mathematical algorithmic aspects of elliptic curve cryptography, spectral modular arithmetic and its applications in cryptography, and high-speed and low-area implementations of public-key cryptographic primitives.
Murat Cihan is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Boğaziçi University. His research and development interests include computer and network security, side-channel analysis, green computing, and security implications of new computing technologies.