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Karl-Christian Posch
Personal data
- Date of birth: December 2, 1953, in Hartberg, Austria
- Citizenship: Austrian
- Languages: German (native), English (well), Swedish (basic)
Academic achievements
Year | Activity |
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1979 | Diplom (Dipl.-Ing., corresponds to master), Graz University of Technology, Austria, (Electrical Engineering). |
1988 | Ph.D., (Dr.techn.), Graz University of Technology, Austria, (Computer Science). |
1988 | Dozent, Graz University of Technology, Austria, 1998, (Applied Information Processing). |
Professional experience
Year | Activity |
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1979 - 1980 | Assistant professor at the Institute for Communications and Wave Propagation, Graz University of Technology, Austria. |
1981 - 1983 | Assistant professor at the Institute for Information Processing (IIG), Graz University of Technology, Austria. Member of the MUPID team (this team developed the Austrian intelligent videotex decoder MUPID). |
May 1983 - August 1984 | Head of hardware design group at MUPID Computer Company, Graz, Austria. |
Sep. 1984 - Feb. 1988 | Assistant professor at the Institute for Information Processing IIG, Graz University of Technology, Austria. |
March 1988 - July 1988 | Visiting professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Denver, Colorado , USA . |
Sep. 1990 - May 1991 | Associate professor at the Department of Computer Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland , St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada . |
March 1997 - April 1997 | Visiting Lecturer at Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business , Athens, Greece. |
Aug. 1988 - Sep. 1998 | Assistant professor at the Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications Technology, Graz University of Technology, Austria. |
since Oct. 1998 | Associate professor (a.o.Univ.-Prof.) at the Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications Technology, Graz University of Technology, Austria. |
2004 - 2008 | Vice Dean of Faculty of Computer Science, Graz University of Technology, Austria. |
Research projects
- 1979 - 1980: Design of software for the Time Normal Station at the Observatory Lustbühel, Graz, Austria.
- 1981 - 1984: Design and industrial development of the micro computer and videotex decoder MUPID. Research on microprocessor based modems.
- 1985 - 1988: Research on real time computer graphics hardware (dissertation).
- 1985 - now: Research on VLSI design methodology, mixed software/hardware modelling and simulation, system-on-chip design, hardware description languages, silicon compilation, hardware algorithms, residue number systems, encryption/decryption, and fast multipliers.
- 1989 - 1995: Project Manager of EUROCHIP (Promotion of VLSI Skills), ESPRIT VLSI Design Action No.3700, Contract No.3647.
- 1990 - now: Research on encryption/decryption methods, in particular methods of parallel implementation of public key encryption algorithms.
- 1993 - 1995: Research project Sichere Kommunikation bei hohen Geschwindigkeiten (Secure high speed communication) with grant from Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Contract No. P9384.
- 1994 - 1996: Research project Secure Operating System Smart Card SOSCARD , with grant from ESPRIT III, European Communities, Contract 9259.
- 1995 - 1998: Research project CRISP - Cryptographic Reduced Instruction Set Processor Smartcard , with grant from ESPRIT IV, European Communities, Contract 20847.
- 1995 - now: Project Manager of EUROPRACTICE (Contract No. A36470).
- 1998 - 1999: Research project SCAN - Secure Communication in ATM Networks , funded by the European Commission, DG XIII within the Advanced Communications Technologies & Services (ACTS) Third Call, project number AC330.
- 2000 - now: Project leader " Teaching Initiative System-on-Chip Design in Graz "
- 2003 - 2006: "Instruction Set Enxtensions for Public-Key Cryptography"; project P16952 funded by the "Fonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung".
- 2004-2006. Research project "Measurable Intelligent and Reliable Semantic Extraction and Retrieval of Multimedia Data (MISTRAL)"; supported by FIT-IT.
- 2004-2008: Network of Excellence in Cryptology (ECRYPT); supported by the European Union.
- 2005-2006: "Study on IT Security: Research Potential in Austria"; project funded by Austrian Ministry for Transportation, Innovation and Technology.
- 2005-2007: Research project Quantum Cryptography on the Chip (QCC) , supported by FIT-IT Embedded Systems.
- 2009-2011: Research project CRYPTA - Cryptographic Protected Tags for new RFID Applicatons, supported by FIT-IT Trust in IT Systems.