Laszlo Hars

Laszlo Hars has earned his doctoral degree at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, in computational geometry. For 15 years, he lectured there in various discrete and numerical mathematics subjects, and computer science. For extended periods, Laszlo visited Kyoto University (working on networked information systems) and the University of Bonn (doing operation research: optimum routing, Steiner trees, traveling salesman type problems). Since 1990, he has been working in industrial research in various fields, like digital signal processing, electric circuit simulation and design, large-scale optimizations, digital watermarking, tamper resistant software, digital rights management, random number generation and testing, and various other areas in information security. Since 2002 he has been working at Seagate Research in Pittsburgh, leading research projects related to storage security. He has published 34 scientific papers and conference presentations, he is the author or coauthor of 7 patents, and over 30 filed patent applications.

Biography Updated on 17 January 2006