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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
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
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.

Publications

Proceedings
2004 Johann Großschädl, Karl-Christian Posch, Stefan Tillich - "Architectural Enhancements to Support Digital Signature Processing and Public-Key Cryptography" - Proceeding of the Second Workshop on Intelligent Solutions in Embedded Systems Icon BibTex Icon Download Icon WebUrl
2003 Martin Feldhofer, Michael Groß, Johann Großschädl, Thomas Popp, Norbert Pramstaller, Christian Pühringer, Karl Scheibelhofer, Alexander Szekely, Stefan Tillich, Karl-Christian Posch - "Rapid Prototyping of a SPARC-V8-based Firewall-on-Chip" - Proceedings of Austrochip 2003, October 3, 2003, Linz, Austria Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2000 H. Leitold, W. Mayerwieser, U. Payer, K.C. Posch, R. Posch, J. Wolkerstorfer - "Robusteness-Agile Encryptor for ATM Networks" - Proceedings of IFIP SEC 2000, 21-25 August 2000, Bejing, PR China. ISBN 0-7923-7914-4, pp. 231-240. Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2000 H. Leitold, W. Mayerwieser, U. Payer, K.C. Posch, R. Posch, J. Wolkerstorfer - "A 155 Mbps triple-DES network encryptor" - Proceedings of CHES 2000, LNCS 1965, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3-540-41455-X, pp. 163–173. Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2000 R. Ingruber, H. Leitold, W. Mayerwieser, U. Payer, K.C. Posch, R. Posch, J. Wolkerstorfer - "ISDN Channel Security Demonstration Board" - Proc. of 2nd International Network Conference, INC 2000, 3-6 July 2000, Plymouth, UK. ed. Stephen Furnell, pp. 297-304, ISBN: 1-84102-066-4. Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2000 H. Leitold, K.C. Posch, R.Posch - "ISDN Kanalverschlüsselung über NT Integration" - Proceedings of "Systemsicherheit 2000", 28-29 March 2000, Bremen, Germany. P. Horster (Hrgg.), vieweg DuD Fachbeiträge, pp.129-139, ISBN 3-528-05745-9. Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl

Part of a book
2011 Karl-Christian Posch, Reinhard Posch, Arne Tauber, Thomas Zefferer, Bernd Zwattendorfer - "Secure and Privacy-preserving eGovernment - Best Practice Austria book title: Rainbow of Computer Science" Icon BibTex Icon Download Icon WebUrl
2008 Karl-Christian Posch, Manfred Josef Aigner - "Smart Cards and Tokens book title: Securing Information and Communications Systems: Principles, Technologies, and Applications " Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2004 Herbert Leitold, Karl-Christian Posch - "The Austrian Citizen Card: A Bottom-Up View book title: Security and Privacy in Advanced Networking Technologies" Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl

Book
2007 Johannes Wolkerstorfer, Karl-Christian Posch - "Austrochip 2007" (Verlag der Technischen Universität Graz Graz - ISBN: 978-3-902465-87-0) Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2003 Karl-Christian Posch - "Rechnerorganisation: Von Funktion zu Struktur" (Eigenverlag Graz) Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl

Article
2008 Karl-Christian Posch - "FutureLabs@Informatik.TUGraz" - Forschungsjournal der Technischen Universität Graz (Volume: ) Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2006 Karl-Christian Posch - "PROACT und E-Government-Innovationszentrum: Zwei neue Initiativen an der TU Graz" - Forschungsjournal der Technischen Universität Graz (Volume: WS 05/06) Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2006 Karl-Christian Posch, Wolf-Dietrich Fellner - "Schwerpunktbildung rechnet sich: Informatik an der TU Graz führt österreichischen IT-Wettbewerb an" - Forschungsjournal der Technischen Universität Graz (Volume: SS06) Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2005 Hermann Maurer, Karl-Christian Posch - "Haben Sie heute schon gegoogelt? Über den Forschungsschwerpunkt „Sichere verteilte intelligente Multimedia-Prozesse und -Strukturen für die e-University"" - Forschungsjournal der Technischen Universität Graz (Volume: WS 04/05) Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2005 Klaus Tochtermann, Karl-Christian Posch, Hermann Maurer - "Informatik und das Informatikstudium an der Technischen Universität Graz" - Telematik (Volume: ) Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2004 Johann Großschädl, Stefan Tillich, Karl-Christian Posch - "Architectural Enhancements to Support Digital Signal Processing and Public-Key Cryptography" - Telematik (Volume: 10 3-4) Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2004 Horst Bischof, Karl-Christian Posch, Franz Wotawa - "Forschung an der Fakultät für Informatik" - Forschungsjournal der Technischen Universität Graz (Volume: SS 04) Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2000 W. Mayerwieser, K.C. Posch - "Socware: Intensifying Interest and Training in "System-on-Chip Design" in Graz" - Telematik - Zeitschrift des Telematik-Ingenieur-Verbandes, Nr. 4/2000, Jahrgang 6, ISSN 1028-5068, pp 30-33. Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl

Tech report
2007 Karl-Christian Posch - "Die ersten drei Jahre der Fakultät für Informatik an der Technischen Universität Graz" Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2006 Karl-Christian Posch - "IT Security: Research Potential in Austria" Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2001 H. Leitold, K.C. Posch - "Projektbericht zur Forschungskooperation IAIK-Telekom AG, Jänner 2001" Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl

Presentation
2007 Karl-Christian Posch - "Contactless Technology and RFID Security" (IPICS, 03.04.07) Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2007 Karl-Christian Posch - "RFID-Security" (IPICS, Glamorgan, 10.07.07) Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2007 Karl-Christian Posch - "Missverständnis Informatik" (Tagung IMST, Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, 22.03.07) Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2007 Karl-Christian Posch - "Computer Science Today: The Facts" (30 Jahre Informatik an der TU Graz, 06.11.07) Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2006 Karl-Christian Posch - "Erfinde die Zukunft: -- Erfinde deine Zukunft" (Netzwerktag Steiermark, Graz, 14.03.06) Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2006 Karl-Christian Posch - "Can RFID Technology Be Secure?" (The First International Workshop on IT-solutions for Physical Security, Stockholm, 31.03.06) Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2006 Karl-Christian Posch - "Erfinde die Zukunft -- erfinde deine Zukunft" (Vorstellung der Informatikstudien an der TU Graz, Feldbach, 15.02.06) Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2006 Karl-Christian Posch - "Informatiker erfinden neue zukünftige Welten" (copy & paste: Erfolgreiche Informatiker machen's vor (Science Park Graz), 22.03.06) Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2005 Karl-Christian Posch - "Datensicherheit am Beispiel aktueller RFID-Technologie" (Sehnsucht nach Sicherheit, 24.11.05) Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2001 K.C. Posch - "Concurrent Modelling and Design" (Intensive Program System-on-Chip Design 2001,, Graz, April 2001) Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2001 K.C. Posch - "Introduction to SoC" (Intensive Program System-on-Chip Design 2001,, Graz, April 2001) Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2000 K.C. Posch - "Robusteness-Agile Encryptor for ATM Networks" (Presentation at IFIP SEC 2000, 21-25 August 2000,, Bejing, PR China.) Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl

Miscellaneous
2002 Posch K.C. - "Rechnerorganisation: Vom Algorithmus zur Hardware" Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2001 E. Duschnig, K.C. Posch - "Die TU Graz zeigt Profil in der Informationstechnologie: Informationssicherheit und Knowledge Management " Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2001 K.C. Posch - "System-on-Chip: IT-Designaubildung an der TU Graz " Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl
2001 K.C. Posch - "System-on-Chip Design" Icon BibTex Icon Download Inactive Icon WebUrl

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