Kris Gaj
Biography
Kris Gaj received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in
Electrical Engineering from Warsaw University of Technology in
Warsaw, Poland. He was a founder of Enigma, a Polish company that
generates practical software and hardware cryptographic
applications used by major Polish banks. At George
Mason University, he does research and teaches courses in the area of
cryptographic engineering, reconfigurable computing, and hardware security. His
research projects center on new hardware architectures for public key cryptosystems
(including five major families of post-quantum cryptosystems), secret
key ciphers (including authenticated ciphers), hash functions, lightweight cryptography, and
codebreaking, as well as benchmarking of cryptographic hardware, high-level synthesis,
and software/hardware codesign. He is the co-director of the
Cryptographic Engineering Research Group.
He has been a member of
the Program Committees of CHES, CryptArchi, CT-RSA, DATE, DSD, FPT, HASP,
LightSec, PQCrypto, Quo Vadis Cryptology, ReConFig, ReCoSoc, and SPACE; a
General Co-chair of CHES 2008 in Washington D.C., a Program
Co-chair of CHES 2009 in Lausanne, Switzerland, and a Program
Co-chair of SHARCS 2012 in Washington D.C. He is an author of a
book on breaking German Enigma cipher during World War II, and a
co-author of the book on Cryptographic Engineering. In 2013, he
was awarded two patents for new Montgomery Multiplication
Architectures.