Serdar Boztas

Associate Professor Serdar Boztas

Associate Professor

Details

Open to

  • Media enquiries

Supervisor projects

  • Efficient Repair of Reed-Solomon Codes

  • 22 Jun 2022
  • Confronting the enemy within: Mathematical models for insider threat mitigation
  • 12 Sep 2012

Teaching interests

Current teaching
Information Theory, Cryptography and Security, Advanced Topics in Cryptography, Smartcard Cryptosystems.

Research supervision

Current PhD research projects
• Lightweight Encryption. PhD Started in 2013
• A Technological and Behavioural Approach for Insider Threat Detection and Prediction. PhD Started in 2012

Completed PhD and master’s research projects
• REFORM: A Framework for Malware Packer Analysis using Information Theory and Statistical Methods. PhD Completed in 2010
• Fault attacks and Countermeasures for Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems. PhD Completed in 2009
• Traitor Tracing using Generalized Reed Solomon Codes and Combinatorial Designs. PhD Completed in 2005
• Some Results on the Cryptanalysis of Block and Stream Ciphers, MSc Completed in 2005

Supervisor Interests
Coding and Information Theory, Information Security, Wireless Communications, Sequence Design for CDMA, Cryptology, Cryptanalysis of Block and Stream Ciphers, Complex Networks, Combinatorics.

Research interests

Coding and information theory. Renyi entropies. Randomness testing. Sequence design with good correlation properties. Combinatorics. Cryptography and cryptanalysis. Information security. Detection of persistent insider threats. Anti-malware techniques. Biometrics. Complex networks.
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