Sedat Akleylek received the B.Sc. degree in Mathematics majored in Computer Science from Ege University in 2004 in Izmir, Turkey, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Cryptography from Middle East Technical University in 2008 and 2010, in Ankara, Turkey, respectively. He is currently employed as an associate professor at the Department of Computer Engineering, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey since 2016. His research interests include in the areas of post-quantum cryptography, algorithms, cryptographic protocols, and architectures for computations in finite fields. He has published more than 20 papers on those topics and presented his work at more than 45 conference papers. He is involved in several nationally and internationally funded research projects on cryptography focusing post-quantum ones.