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Sep 2023 - Handbook of Cryptography
"Development of Cryptography since Shannon", Handbook of Formal Analysis and Verification in Cryptography, CRC Press, September 2023. URL and PDF
Sep 2023 - 36th IEEE SOCC
"An efficient hardware design for fast implementation of HQC", 36th IEEE International System-On-Chip Conference (SOCC), Santa Clara, California, pages 1-6, September 5-8, 2023. PDF
Jun 2023 - IEEE TVLSI Systems
"LEAP: Lightweight and efficient accelerator for sparse polynomial multiplication of HQC", IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, 31(6):892-896, 2023. PDF
Jun 2023 - ACM TRET
"High-performance and configurable SW/HW co-design of post-quantum signature CRYSTALS-Dilithium", ACM Tran. on Recon. Tech. and Systems, 16(3)44:1-28, 2023. PDF
Apr 2023 - IEEE Computer Architecture Letters
"Hardware-implemented lightweight accelerator for large integer polynomial multiplication", IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, 22(1):57-60, 2023. PDF
Mar 2023 - Koç was elected as an AAIA Fellow
Koç was elected as a Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association for contributions to machine learning, March 1, 2023. JPG and URL
Dec 2022 - IEEE Outstanding Paper Award  
"A versatility-performance balanced hardware architecture for scene text detection", IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, December 15-18, 2022. JPG and PDF
Oct 2022 - Keynote at VLSI-SoC 2022
Koç is the keynote speaker at VLSI-SoC, held in Patras, Greece, in October 3-5, 2022. PNG
Sep 2022 - IACR Transactions on CHES
"Improved Plantard arithmetic for lattice-based cryptography", IACR Transactions on CHES, Volume 2022, No. 4, pages 614-636, 2022. URL and PDF
Aug 2022 - WAIFI
"Reduction-free multiplication for finite fields and polynomial rings", International Workshop on Arithmetic of Finite Fields 2022, Springer LNCS 13638, pages 53-78, 2023. PDF
Dec 2021 - Keynote at Education Innovation Forum
"International Collaboration in Higher Education". Koç was the keynote speaker at the EIF, Nanjing, China, 2021. JPG
Nov 2021 - Comparing JCEN and JoC
Impact Score, h-index, Rank, and SJR of Journal of Cryptographic Engineering and Journal of Cryptology. JoC was founded in 1988, while JCEN was founded in 2011. PNG
Aug 2021 - Partially Homomorphic Encryption
Book published by Springer, authors: Koç, Özdemir and Özger. This monograph describes partially homomorphic encryption functions using a unified notation, 2021. URL
Nov 2020 ‒ Keynote at the ASHES Workshop
Koç was the keynote speaker at the 4th ASHES Workshop: "Formidable Challenges in Hardware Implementations of FHE Functions for Applications in ML", 2020. URL and PDF
Aug 2020 ‒ Book Chapter
"Artificial Intelligence for Next-Generation Medical Robotics", Digital Surgery, pages 25-36, Springer, 2020. PDF
Jul 2020 ‒ Conference Paper
"RAPDARTS: Resource-aware progressive differentiable architecture search", IJCNN, Glasgow, 2020. PDF
Jun 2020 ‒ IEEE TC
"Algorithms for inversion mod p^k", IEEE Transactions on Computers, 69(6):907-913, June 2020. URL and PDF
Feb 2020 ‒ Keynote @TEMET Konferenz
Koç was the keynote speaker @TEMET Konferenz About & Beyond PKI, "Supersingular Isogeny Diffie-Hellman", Bern, Switzerland, 2020. JPG
Jan 2020 ‒ Koç Receives Prestigious Award
Koç received Yıldız Technical University's Star of 2019 Award in Science, 2020. JPG
Dec 2019 ‒ Keynote at ICBDS
Koç is the keynote speaker at the 1st International Conference on Big Data and Security, "Partially Homomorphic Cryptography", Nanjing, China, 2019. URL
Dec 2019 ‒ Sam Green defends PhD Dissertation
Sam Green successfully defended his PhD dissertation and received his PhD degree in computer science from UC Santa Barbara, 2019. Defense and FirstPage
Dec 2019 ‒ Keynote at Inscrypt
Koç was the keynote speaker at the 15th Inscrypt, "Post-Quantum Cryptographic Engineering", Nanjing, China, 2019. URL
Nov 2019 ‒ Keynote at UK Rise Conference
Koç was the keynote speaker at the Research Institute in Secure Hardware and Embedded Systems (RISE), "Engineering of Post-Quantum Cryptography", London, 2019. URL
Jul 2019 ‒ Conference Paper
"Benchmarking event-driven neuromorphic architectures", ICONS, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2019. URL
Jun 2019 - Journal of Cryptographic Engineering
"Parallel bitsliced AES", Journal of Cryptographic Engineering, 9(2):159-172, June 2019. URL and PDF
Mar 2019 - Nature Electronics
"Memristors learn to play", Nature Electronics, (2)96-97, March 2019. URL
Nov 2018 ‒ IEEE TC Special Issue on PQC
Liu, Longa, and Koç are the Guest Editors of IEEE TC Special Issue on Cryptographic Engineering in a Post-Quantum World, published in November 2018. URL and PDF
Sep 2018 - Journal of Cryptographic Engineering
"Montgomery inversion", Journal of Cryptographic Engineering, 8(3):201-210, September 2018. URL and PDF
Jul 2018 ‒ Cyber-Physical Systems Security
This book presents the work of researchers engaged with developing unified foundations, principles, and technologies for cyber-physical systems security, Springer, 2018. URL
Jul 2018 - Conference Paper
"Impacts of Mathematical Optimizations on Reinforcement Learning Policy Performance", IJCNN, Rio, Brazil, 2018. PDF
Feb 2018 - Conference Presentation
"Impacts of Quantization and Compression on Reinforcement Learning Policy Performance", Neuro Inspired Computational Elements Conference, Hillsboro, OR, 2018. URL
Dec 2017 - Plenary Talk at IEEE ICECS
Koç and Green presented "Quantitative, Architectural, and Circuit Optimizations for Reinforcement Learning" at 24th IEEE ICECS, Batumi, Georgia, 2017. URL
Sep 2017 - CryptoIC Conference Presentation
Koç delivered a talk entitled "Design of Public-Key Cryptography Processors" at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, 2017. URL
Jul 2017 ‒ CPSEd Workshop
The Cyber-Physical Security Education Workshop, organized by Koç, was held in Paris, July 17-19, 2017. URL and URL
May 2017 - Koç was interviewed by The Intercept
NYU accidentally exposed military code-breaking computer project to entire Internet, The Intercept, May 11, 2017. URL
May 2017 ‒ Pedro Sosa M.S. Project Defense
Implementing a Lattice-Based Post-Quantum Authenticated Key Exchange, May 19, 2017.
May 2017 - CFP: Special Issue of IEEE TC on PQC
Liu, Longa, and Koç are the Guest Editors of IEEE TC Special Issue on Cryptographic Engineering in a Post-Quantum World, 2017. PDF
Dec 2016 ‒ Koç visits ITMO University
Koç visited the SCA Research Lab of ITMO University in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2016.
Nov 2016 ‒ Applied Cryptography Seminar in Shanghai
Koç delivered a 2-day course in "Cryptographic Engineering" in Shanghai International Micro-Tech Affiliation Center, 2016.
Sep 2016 ‒ NATO Workshop on PQC
Koç was a speaker at the NATO Workshop on Secure Implementation of PQC, 2016.
Aug 2016 ‒ FDTC 2016 Keynote
Koç was a keynote speaker at Workshop on FDTC in Santa Barbara, and spoke about "continuous-time computational aspects of cyber-physical security", 2016. URL
July 2016 ‒ NSF Funding
NSF awarded funding to Koç for developing Cyber-Physical Security Education Workshop, 2016. NSF Award Page
Jun 2016 ‒ Short Course in University of Siena
Koç a taught a 1-week graduate course in Cryptographic Engineering at the University of Siena, Italy, June 13-17, 2016. URL
May 2016 ‒ Conference Presentation
Koç presented the work at CryptArch Workshop, "Light-weight FPGA Implementation of FIPS140-2 Online Statistical Tests", 2016. URL
Apr 2016 ‒ Kahn Festschrift
"Bitsliced high-performance AES-ECB on GPUs", authored by Lim, Petzold and Koç, appears as a chapter in the book The Codebreakers published by Springer, 2016. PDF
Apr 2016 ‒ IEEE ISDFS 2016 Keynote
Koç was a keynote speaker at the 4th International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security, "On analog computing in cyber-physical security", 2016. URL
Mar 2016 ‒ Koç is an Associate Editor of IJFCS
Koç accepted to serve as an Associate Editor of the prestigious International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, 2016. URL