IEEE Fellow; Co-founder of the Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems; Co-founder of International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Fields (WAIFI), Security Proofs for Embedded Systems (PROOFS), and Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security (ASHES); Founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cryptographic Engineering; Koç has positions at Iğdır University (Turkey), NUAA (China), and University of California Santa Barbara.