People
Christof Paar
Affiliated Professor
Faculty Listing
Office: Atwater Kent Laboratories, 306
Phone: +1-508-831-5061
Fax: +1-508-831-5491
christof@wpi.edu
christof@cs.wpi.edu
Educational Background
- B.S., College of Cologne - Germany, 1988
- M.S., University of Siegen - Germany, 1991
- Ph.D., University of Essen - Germany, 1994
Research
- Head of the Cryptography and Information Security Group: Efficient implementation of public-key and symmetric algorithms, algorithm agility and FPGAs in Cryptography, efficient Galois field arithmetic, computer arithmetic, channel coding.
- In August '99, Christof Paar co-organized the first Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems at WPI. Proceedings are published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, volume 1717.
Recent Publications
Honors & Awards
- 1987-1988: Fellowship from Siemens
- 1990-1991: Fellowship from the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation
- 1991-1992: Doctoral grant from the German National Science Foundation (DFG)
- 1994: Post Doctoral grant from the German National Science Foundation (DFG)
- 1996: Joseph S. Satin Distinguished Fellow in EE
- 1998: NSF CAREER Award: "Cryptography on Reconfigurable Hardware"
Years of Service at WPI
- 1995 - 2001: Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- 1998 - 2002: Joint appointment in the Computer Science Department
- 2001 - 2002: Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- since 2002: Affiliated Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professional Societies/Memberships
- ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
- IACR (International Association for Cryptologic Research)
- IEEE (Computer, Communications, and Education society)
- Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering honor society)