Zoya Dyka received her Diploma in Radiophysics and Electronics (T.Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine, 1996), obtained her PhD from BTU Cottbus–Senftenberg in 2012. She has been with the Leibniz Institute for High Performance Microelectronics (IHP) since 2000 and has been an Honorary Professor at BTU Cottbus–Senftenberg since 2022. Since 2013 she has led a junior research group on tamper-resistant crypto-ICs, since 2018 a research group on resilient CPSoS, since 2021 a research team in the field of hardware security. She has more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 8 patents.

Areas of interest

Research interests include efficient hardware accelerators for cryptographic operations, countermeasures against side-channel attacks, anti-tampering techniques and resilience.

What was your first hardware project?

Implementation of an accelerator for elliptic curve dot product (IHP 250 nm technology).