Kal Toth is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Oregon State University. His areas of experience and research interests are in the fields of software engineering and information security, especially as they relate to e-commerce, mobile devices and distributed systems. He is currently conducting research on a web-enabled consumer-centered authentication and assertion architecture based on the so-called “Persona Concept”.

Prior to joining academia in 1999, over a 15 year period, Kal led several development and consulting teams focused on security product development and security evaluation of on-line systems supporting national security and consumer privacy data and applications. He also conducted several analysis and design studies of gateways and interfaces for trusted computing projects.

Kal has a Ph.D. in Computer Systems Engineering from Carleton University and is a P.Eng (British Columbia) with a Software Engineering designation.