I am the Cryptography Incubation Team lead in the Security and Cryptography Incubations team of the eXtreme Computing Group. This is an applied cryptography research group working on various cryptography mechanisms and architectures in operating systems and cloud computing platforms.

I completed my B.S. (summe cum laude) and M.Sc. (cum laude) at the Istanbul Technical University in 1992 and 1994, and my Ph.D. at the Oregon State University in December of 1998, respectively. I designed and implemented a multi-tasking operating system on Intel 386 systems entirely in assembly language. In my master's thesis, I created new image compression, edge detection, and surface reconstruction algorithms based on non-convex optimization techniques. My PhD thesis focused on high-speed software and hardware architectures for number-theoretical cryptographic algorithms. I worked at Novell from 1997 through 2003 on various aspects of cryptography and authenticaiton, and joined Microsoft in January of 2004 as a developer in Windows Security. At Microsoft, I worked as a Developer, Developer Lead, and Program Manager in Windows Core Security and Online Services groups. I moved to CSRO Incubations to start the Cryptography Incubation group within Security Incubations, which later was moved into Microsoft Research and eXtreme Computing Group in 2009.