ACHS

ACHS Instructors

Tolga Acar

Tolga is a Security Architect at Microsoft, and works on cloud services security. He authored several papers, patents and patent applications, and gave numerous talks on cryptography and security. He is a Senior IEEE member, and a member of IACR. In the past he worked at Novell as a Sr. Software Engineer on cryptography, authentication, and directory services security, where he received an Employee of the Year award. He is managing Applied Cryptography Research group at Microsoft, working on cryptography, key management, distributed security, TPMs, and policy languages at several divisions.
email: tolga.acar@microsoft.com
url: https://plus.google.com/101381306705802169885

Ryan Kastner

Ryan is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He received a PhD in Computer Science in 2002, and works in the areas of embedded system, reconfigurable computing, hardware security. In addition to over 100 technical articles, and has authored three books including the "Handbook on FPGA Design Security". He currently serves on the editorial board for the IEEE Embedded Systems Letters and as the co-director for the Engineers for Exploration Program.
email: kastner@cs.ucsd.edu
url: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~kastner

Çetin Kaya Koç

Çetin received his PhD from UC Santa Barbara in 1988. He is a leader and visionary in cryptographic technology, making significant contributions to several cryptography and security products that have been in the marketplace since 1990. He is the co-founder of the Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, and founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cryptographic Engineering.
email: koc@cs.ucsb.edu
url: http://cs.ucsb.edu/~koc

Pankaj Rohatgi

Pankaj received his PhD from Cornell in 1994, and is currently working on new research and services efforts relating to tamper resistance solutions and differential power analysis. Pankaj spent 13 years at IBM as a Research Staff Member and the Manager of IBM's™ Information Security Group. He is the recipient of the Pat Golberg Memorial Best Paper Award for 2007.
email: pankaj.rohatgi@cryptography.com
url: http://www.cryptography.com/company/profiles/pankaj-rohatgi.html

Patrick Schaumont

Patrick is an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. He received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from UCLA in 2004. His research interests include design of, and design methodologies for, secure embedded systems. He directs the Center for Embedded Systems for Critical Applications (CESCA) at Virginia Tech. His research awards include the NSF CAREER Award, and best paper awards at FPL 2011 and IEEE SECON 2011. email: schaum@vt.edu
url: http://www.ece.vt.edu/schaum/

Simha Sethumadhavan

Simha recieved his PhD from UT Austin in 2007 and is now an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. His research interests are in hardware security, hardware support for security and privacy, energy-efficient computing and systems research tools. He has been recognized with teaching and research awards including the NSF CAREER award.
email: simha@cs.columbia.edu
url: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~simha/

Timothy Sherwood

Tim is a Professor of Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara. He received the PhD from UCSD in 2003 and works in the area of computer architecture and embedded system security. His research has been selected by IEEE Micro as a Top Pick on 5 separate occasions, and he in a recipient of the Northrup Grumman and UCSB Distinguished Teaching Awards.
email: sherwood@cs.ucsb.edu
url: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~sherwood

G. Edward Suh

Ed received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT with for his work on a single-chip secure processor. At Verayo Inc. he led the development of unclonable RFIDs and secure embedded processors. Since joining Cornell in 2007 he has recieved numerous awards including the NSF CAREER award, the AFOSR Young Faculty Program (YIP) award, and the ARO Young Investigator Program (YIP) award.
email: suh@csl.cornell.edu
url: http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~suh

Wim van Dam

Wim received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Oxford in 2000, and in 2002 he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam. He is currently and associate professor at UC Santa Barbara with a research focus on the theory of quantum computation and quantum communication. His main interest is in the development of new quantum algorithms that give an exponential speed-up when compared with traditional, classical algorithms.
email: vandam@cs.ucsb.edu
url: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~vandam