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.

Member of Academia Europea; Professor of Computer Science at EPFL; Recipient of Best Paper Awards at PODS 2002, ICALP 2005, SIGMOD 2011, VLDB 2014, and GPCE 2017, an Outrageous Ideas and Vision Paper Award at CIDR 2013, a Google Research Award (in 2009), and an ERC Grant (in 2011)

IFSA Fellow and Former ISFA President; ISME Life Fellow; Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Engineering; Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences; Member of the St. Stephan Academy of Sciences; Founding President of the Hungarian Fuzzy Association; Professor, President of the University Research Council, President of the University Ph.D. Council, and Former Dean of Engineering, Szechenyi Istvan University, Hungary; Professor in the Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary; Recipient of the IEEE Fuzzy Pioneer Award.