Facilitating collaborative research and training
Cybersecurity and privacy are emerging as central issues our society needs to tackle in the coming decade to secure our future. The Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute (CPI) at the University of Waterloo, is tackling these challenges head-on by fostering interdisciplinary research collaborations and increasing the visibility and strength of Waterloo's cybersecurity and privacy research. CPI is advancing discovery and partnerships in numerous application areas including:
- Quantum computing & communication
- Data science
- Cryptography
- Artificial intelligence
- Policy & Legal
- Social impacts of security and privacy
CPI’s vision is to be internationally recognized as a leading interdisciplinary research institute making significant impacts in improving information security and human privacy. Waterloo is uniquely capable of devising effective cybersecurity and privacy tools and technologies, commercializing these advancements, developing the next generation of cybersecurity leaders, and leading industry-academic collaboration.
News
NCC awards funding to 5 researchers from CPI
We are thrilled to share that CPI has secured over $1.5M in funding through the National Cybersecurity Consortium | Consortium national pour la cybersécurité (NCC)! This achievement recognizes members of CPI as leaders in cybersecurity research and further propels the University of Waterloo in making global impact through collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches.
CPI Congratulates our Top 3 Winners in the CPI Annual Conference Poster Competition
A primary objective of the conference was to shine a light on Waterloo graduate students, future leaders of cybersecurity research, through a poster session competition generously sponsored and judged by Rogers at the event. Out of 15 impactful research project submissions, the top prize of $1,000 was awarded to Abdulrahman Diaa, a PhD student in computer science, for his work on Optimizing Adaptive Attacks Against Content Watermarks for Language Models. Second place went to Sina Kamali ($500) and third place ($300) was shared by Yuzhe You and Jarvis Tse with prizes funded by CPI.
Kyndryl Collaborates with University of Waterloo’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, today announced it is collaborating with the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute (CPI) at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, to support critical research related to protecting and preserving data privacy and security.
Congratulations to our Spring 2024 CPI Undergraduate Award Winners!
University of Waterloo students continued to shine last term and were rewarded thanks to the generous sponsorship from Mastercard Canada.