Dr. Kamer Kaya is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences at Sabancı University. He got his PhD from Bilkent University in 2009 on Threshold Cryptography. After graduation, he worked at CERFACS, France, as a post-graduate researcher in the Parallel Algorithms Project. In September 2011, he joined the Ohio State University as a postdoctoral researcher, and in December 2013, he became a Research Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Biomedical Informatics. Since 2014, he has been working at Sabancı University. Since 2018, he is the founder and manager of Dakik Software Technologies which is a software company focusing on R&D projects.