Serdar Erdem

Serdar Suer Erdem received his Ph.D. degree in November 2001 from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oregon State University under the direction of Prof. Çetin K. Koç.

Serdar received his B.S. (1992) degree from the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department in Bogazici University and M.S. (1995) degree from the Electrical Engineering Department in Pennsylvania State University.

Serdar's research interests are in finite field and elliptic curve arithmetic. He worked on various projects related to finite fields, error control codes, and information theory. Serdar is currently an Assistant Professor at Gebze Institute of Technology in Turkey.

Contact Information

E-mail: serdar@ece.orst.edu

Selected Publications

S. S. Erdem and C. K. Koc. A less recursive variant of Karatsuba-Ofman algorithm for multiplying operands of size a power of two. Proceedings, 16th IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic, J.-C. Bajard and M. Schulte, editors, pages 28-35, IEEE Computer Society Press, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, June 15-18, 2003. Abstract Paper
S. S. Erdem. Improving the Karatsuba-Ofman Multiplication Algorithm for Special Applications. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Oregon State University, November 8, 2001. Abstract