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Mar 2026 - Applied Sciences
A hybrid planning–learning framework for autonomous navigation with dynamic obstacles. Applied Sciences, 16(6):2961, March 2026.   pdf
Jan 2026 - IEEE Internet of Things Journal
Less is more: Latent diffusion for efficient IoT side-channel analysis. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2026.   pdf
Jan 2025 - Journal of Cryptographic Engineering
MLFormer: a high performance MPC linear inference framework for transformers. Journal of Cryptographic Engineering, Volume 15, Number 2, pages 1-29, 2025.   pdf
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On the power of simple branch prediction analysis. ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security, AsiaCCS 2007, pages 312-320, Singapore, March 20-22, 2007.   pdf
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ENG25519: Faster TLS 1.3 handshake using optimized X25519 and Ed25519. The 33rd USENIX Symposium, pages 6381-6398, August 14-16, 2024.   pdf
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Yet another Improvement of Plantard Arithmetic for Faster Kyber on Low-end 32-bit IoT Devices. IEEE Transactions Information Forensics & Security, Volume 19, pages 3800-3813, 2024.   pdf
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A versatility-performance balanced hardware architecture for scene text detection. IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, Hainan, China, pages 540-549, December 15-18, 2022.   pdf
Journal of Cryptographic Engineering
JCEN is the premier forum for algorithms, hardware and software development in cryptography. Koç is the founding editor-in-chief of the journal, established in 2011.   url
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Research Areas
Cryptographic Engineering provides techniques, mechanisms, and tools for designing algorithms, architectures, hardware and software that support private and authenticated communication, allowing secure and authenticated transactions over communication networks.

Finite Field Arithmetic studies mathematical properties of finite rings and fields in order to discover novel representations of the elements and fast algorithms for arithmetic operations for designing efficient software and hardware for cryptography and error-correcting codes.

Random Number Generators are used for supplying secret keys, private keys, and ephemeral and initializing variables in cryptographic systems. Its foundations are based on cryptographic randomness, in terms of its entropy under the different measures and its complexity as methods of representation and underlying mathematical functions.

Homomorphic Encryption is a form of encryption that allows computations to be performed on encrypted data without decrypting it. Homomorphic encryption is used for privacy-preserving outsourced storage and computation. This allows data to be encrypted and out-sourced to commercial cloud environments for processing, while remain encrypted.

Machine Learning is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of algorithms that can learn from data and generalize, and thus perform tasks without explicit instructions. Machine learning approaches have been applied to many fields including large language models, computer vision, speech recognition, agriculture, and medicine.



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