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Founding Faculty:
CV
Assoc. Prof. Alptekin Küpçü
Associate Professor at Koç University Computer Science and Engineering
Looking for students to join our research group CRYPTO@KU (Ph.D. & M.Sc. & post-doctoral researchers), and undergraduates for work-study or summer internships. We have funding available. All collaboration opportunities and application methods are listed on our ``work with us`` page.
I founded and am leading the Cryptography, Security, and Privacy Research Group at Koç University. My book, ``Efficient Cryptography for the Next Generation Secure Cloud: Protocols, Proofs, and Implementation``, has been published by Lambert Academic Publishing.
Graduate Students:
- Aybüke Buket Akgül (M.Sc.)
- Ahmet Kerem Özfatura (M.Sc.)
- Arman Ayk Torikoğlu (M.Sc.)
Undergraduate Students:
- Ege Erdoğan (Koç University)
- Burcu Yıldız (Koç University)
- Levent Çelik (Koç University)
- Murat Güç (Koç University)
- Ameer Taweel (Koç University)
- Onur Eren Arpacı (Koç University)
- Halil Tataroğlu (Bilkent University)
- Eftelya Şimşek (Middle East Technical University)
- Unat Tekşen (Kadir Has University)
- Mehmet Salih Çeliktenyıldız (Bilkent University)
Previous Members (Alumni, including Interns)
- Mohammad Sadeq Dousti continued at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
- Aslı Karahan (Koç University)
- Mert Atila Sakaoğulları (Koç University)
- Berk Akbaş (Koç University)
- Bulut Bulgu (Koç University)
- Barlas Yardımcı (Koç University)
- Sanaz Taheri (Ph.D., Koç University) continued at Cryptonumerics, Canada
- Faizan Safdar Ali (M. Sc., Koç University)
- Mohammad Etemad (Ph.D., Koç University), continued postdoctoral at University of Virginia, USA.
- Yahya Hassanzadeh (Ph.D., Koç University), continued at AxiomZen, Canada
- Leila Bahri, continued postdoctoral at KTH, Sweden.
- Handan Kılınç (M.Sc., Koç University), continued Ph.D. at EPFL | École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Ertem Esiner (M.Sc., Koç University), continued Ph.D. at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Adilet Kachkeev (M.Sc., Koç University), continued Ph.D. at Kyrgyzstan
- Devriş İşler (M.Sc., Koç University), continued Ph.D. at KU Leuven, Belgium
- Egeyar Özlen Bağcıoğlu (METU and Koç University), continued M.Sc. at EPFL, Switzerland
- Sam Braunfeld (University of California, Berkeley), continued Ph.D. at Rutgers University, USA
- Ozan Okumuşoğlu (Koç University), continued M.Sc. at Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Elif Özgen (İzmir University of Economics), continued M.Sc. at Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
- Muhammed Furkan Bayraktar, İlker Kadir Öztürk, Muhammed Ender Yücel, Rahime Cansu Ünalır, Cansın Yıldırım (Koç University)
- Arjen Kılıç (Özyeğin University)
- Yaman Yağız Taşbağ, Abdullah Talayhan, Asu İşbilen (Bilkent University)
- Eric Giannini (Saint Mary’s College of California)
- Mohammed Ahmadi (Imam Reza International University)
- Emir Demirdağ (Bahçeşehir University and Syracuse University)
- Ezgi Kurt (Middle East Technical University)
- Abdurrahman Yaşar (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)
- Sena Efsun Cebeci (Ph.D., Koç University)
- İpek Kızıl (M.Sc., Koç University)
- Said Tahsin Dane (M.Sc., Koç University)
- Onur Yüksel (Dokuz Eylül University)
- Amin Alameer (University of Jordan)
- Sona Maharjan (Ashoka University)
- Mohammad Haseeb (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
- Zeynep Gencer
- Ata Altınok
- Ceyda İrem İrwin
- Harun Şaşmaz
- Cansu Doğanay
- Osman Biçer (Ph.D.)
- Adnan Baysal (Ph.D.)
- Tuğra Demirel (Koç University)
- Nehir Arya Taş (Koç University)
- Mehmet Arif Demirtaş (İstanbul Technical University)
- Aylanur Ertürk (MEF University)
- Ayşe Beyza Demir (Özyeğin University)
- Deniz Gürarslan (İzmir Institute of Technology)
Collaborators and Visitors
- Tolga Acar at Microsoft Research
- Sedat Akleylek at Samsun OMU
- Osama Al-Khaleel at Jordan University of Science and Technology
- Erman Ayday at Case Western Reserve University
- Selçuk Baktır at Bahçeşehir University
- Fuat Balcı at Koç University
- Kemal Bıçakçı at TOBB ETU
- Mira Belenkiy at Microsoft Research
- David Cash at Rutgers University
- Ercüment Çiçek at Bilkent University
- Emiliano De Cristofaro at University College London
- Touradj Ebrahimi at EPFL
- Günther Eibl at Salzburg University of Applied Sciences
- Chris Erway at AppNeta
- Reza Ghasemi at Bu-Ali Sina University
- Seny Kamara at Microsoft Research
- Aggelos Kiayias at University of Athens
- Anna Lysyanskaya at Brown University
- Payman Mohassel at Yahoo Labs
- Öznur Özkasap at Koç University
- Charalampos Papamanthou at University of Maryland
- Ali Aydın Selçuk at TOBB ETU
- Roberto Tamassia at Brown University
- Daniel Wichs at Northeastern University
- Reihaneh Safavi-Naini at University of Calgary
- Deniz Gündüz at Imperial College London
- Bart Preneel at KU Leuven
- Selçuk Uluağaç at Florida International University