Lo'ai Tawalbeh

Lo'ai received his B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology in June of 2000. He worked as research and development engineer at One World Software Solutions for one year before he joined the graduate program at OSU in September 2001.

Lo'ai received his M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Oregon State University under the direction of Dr. Alex Tenca in October 2002, and his Ph.D. under the direction of Dr. Çetin K. Koç in October 2004.

Lo'ai's research interests are in VLSI design, hardware implemantations for cryptography, and cryptographic co-processor design using scalable modules.

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Selected Publications

• L. Tawalbeh. A Novel Unified Algorithm and Hardware Architecture for Integrated Modular Division and Multiplication in GF(p) and GF(2n) Suitable for Public-Key Cryptography. Ph.D. Thesis, School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Oregon State University, October 28, 2004   Abstract   Thesis
• L. A. Tawalbeh, A. F. Tenca, S. Park, and C. K. Koc. A dual-field modular division algorithm and architecture for application specific hardware. Thirty-Eighth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, to appear, IEEE Press, Pacific Grove, California, November 7-10, 2004.   Abstract   Paper
• L. A. Tawalbeh, A. F. Tenca, and C. K. Koc. A radix-4 design of a scalable modular multiplier with recoding techniques. IEEE Potentials, to appear, 2005.   Abstract   Paper