Christof Paar

For more information on Understanding Cryptography, including video lectures, slides and many other resources, visit: WWW.CRYPTO-TEXTBOOK.COM Christof is Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy in Bochum, Germany, and Research Professor at the Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst. He has taught crypto and security courses for 25 years to thousands of students in the US & Europe. He also taught extensively in industry, including courses at NASA, Motorola & Philips. Christof has given invited talks at MIT, Oxford, Yale, Stanford, IBM and Intel. He co-founded, with Cetin Koc, the Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES) and has 200+ scientific publications on applied cryptography. He is fellow of the IEEE and the International Association for Cryptologic Research. Christof has also been very active in industrial security. He co-founded ESCRYPT Inc., a leading international player for industrial security. In 2012 ESCRYPT became part of Bosch, one of the world's largest engineering firms. Together with his PhD students he spun-off a number of other start-ups related to IoT security, secure embedded software and high-performance computing for cryptanalysis.