Faculty

Berk Sunar, Ph.D., Director

Background

Berk Sunar received his BSc degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University in 1995 and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from Oregon State University in December 1998. After briefly working as a member of the research faculty at Oregon State University's Information Security Laboratory, Sunar has joined Worcester Polytechnic Institute as an Assistant Professor. He is currently heading the Cryptography and Information Security Laboratory (CRIS). Sunar received the prestigious National Science Foundation Young Faculty Early CAREER award in 2002.

Research Interests

Sunar's research interests include finite fields, elliptic curve cryptography, low-power crypographic hardware design, and computer arithmetic. Sunar is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, the ACM, and the International Association of Cryptologic Research (IACR).

William J. Martin Ph.D.

Background

Bill Martin received his bachelors degree in 1986 with a double major in Mathematics and Computer Science at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Simultaneously, he received an M.A. in Mathematics from the same institution. He received his Ph.D. in 1992 in Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo, with a thesis on ``completely regular'' codes completed under the supervision of C. D. Godsil. Martin has held visiting positions at Waterloo and Vermont and from 1993 to 2001 was on faculty at the University of Winnipeg in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. After a year with the Center for Applied Cryptographic Research, Martin joined Worcester Polytechnic Institute as an associate professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences. His research has been supported by both NSERC (Canada) and the NSF.

Research Interests

Martin has broad interests in discrete mathematics and algebra as well as their application to communications. His expertise is the algebraic study of codes and combinatorial designs via association schemes. Current focus is on combinatorial structures relevant to cryptography. Martin is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, the International Association of Cryptologic Research (IACR), the Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications and the American Mathematical Society.

Richard A. Stanley, Ph.D.

Background

Richard Stanley has received his bachelors and masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University in 1963 and 1964, respectively. He received a Masters degree in Military Arts & Science, from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in 1974 and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at WPI in 1999. Richard A. Stanley, CISSP, is a practicing information security professional with many years of public and private sector experience, and an adjunct assistant professor of electrical engineering at WPI. He is the founder and coordinator of the WPI Professional Information Security Certificate Program.

Research Interests

Stanley's research interests are in information systems security and telecommunications.

Wenjing Lou Ph.D.

Background

Wenjing Lou joined Worcester Polytechnic Institute as an Assistant Professor in 2003 after completing her Ph.D degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Florida, USA. From March 1996 to July 1999, she had been working in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, first as a research scholar (M.A.Sc) in the School of Applied Science and then as a Research Engineer at Network Technology Research Center. Lou received her B.E degree and M.E degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, in 1993 and 1996 respectively.

Research Interests

Lou has been working on TCP/IP networks, ATM networks, and wireless networks. Her current research interests are in the mobile ad hoc networks, with an emphasis on routing, MAC protocol design and network security.

Christof Paar, Ph.D.

Background

Christof Paar has the chair for Communication Security at the University of Bochum, Germany, and an is Affilated Professor of the CRIS Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Institute of Experimental Mathematics at the University of Essen, Germany, in 1994. From 1994-2001 he was professor at WPI where he founded the Cryptography and Information Security (CRIS) Labs. He is co-founder of the CHES (Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems) Workshop series, which has evolved into one of the leading forums for applied cryptography. He has over 60 peer-reviewed publications in the field of applied data security, and was invited speaker at MIT, Yale, University of Illinois U-C, and many other institutions. He has been teaching cryptography course in academia and industry since 1996, including courses at NASA, Motorola Research and Philips Research.

Research Interests

His research interest include efficient software and hardware algorithms for cryptographic schemes, side channel attacks, security in pervasive applications, and many other aspects of embedded security.

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