Biography
Education
- Ph.D. Worcester Polytechnic Institute 2006
- M.Sc. Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1998
- Dipl. Ing. (comparable to B.Sc.) Fachhochschule München (Munich University of Applied Sciences) 1996
Biosketch
Jens-Peter Kaps is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Volgenau School of Information Technology at George Mason University since 2006. He is co-director of the Cryptographic Engineering Research Group (CERG). He was general co-chair for the Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems conference (CHES) in 2008. His research interests include ultra-low-power cryptographic hardware design, side-channel analysis, computer arithmetic, efficient cryptographic algorithms, and ubiquitous computing. He received a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2006. Dr. Kaps is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the International Association of Cryptologic Research (IACR) as well as Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) International Honor Society for Electrical Engineers.