Paul Kocher — Chief Scientist of Cryptography Research Division at Rambus

Mr. Paul Kocher serves as the Chief Scientist Cryptography Research Division at Rambus Inc. Mr. Kocher served as President of Cryptography Research Division and Senior Vice President at Rambus Inc. Mr. Kocher founded Cryptography Research, Inc. (Cryptography Research Division)in 1995. At Cryptography Research, he leads long-term research projects in areas including tamper resistance, content protection, fraud prevention for financial services and network security. His work includes designing numerous cryptographic applications and protocols, including SSL v3.0, the world's most widely used security protocol. In addition to leading the team at CRI that discovered differential power analysis and designed the record-breaking DES key search machine Deep Crack, he is also credited with discovering timing attack cryptanalysis and co-founded ValiCert, Inc. He served as an Advisor of Voltage Security, Inc. He served as Senior Advisor for Cyber and National Security of Cryptography Research. He serves as a Member of the Advisory Board of Voltage Security, Inc. His work has been reported in forums ranging from technical journals and Scientific American to CNN and the front page of the New York Times. He served as a Member of Advisory Board at Vormetric, Inc. He served as a Member of Technical Advisory Board of Cavium, Inc. (Cavium Networks, Inc). He is active contributor to major conferences and standards bodies. He holds a B.S. degree from Stanford University.