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Call for Posters: 2025 Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute's Annual Conference
The Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute (CPI) at the University of Waterloo is hosting their Annual Conference on Thursday, October 28, from 8:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. – providing a unique forum for students and researchers to network with faculty, government, and industry to present their research projects on cybersecurity and privacy. Student and researcher posters will be on display and there will be dedicated timeslots for conference attendees to view the posters.
The top poster prize winner will be awarded $1,000!
Who is eligible to apply?
- Current University of Waterloo students (undergraduate/graduate) of CPI faculty members
- If your poster has been accepted, you are required to register as a "Poster Participant" in advance and attend the conference for the majority of the day. You must also be available to set up between 7 a.m. and 8:45 a.m. the day of the event.
- Unsuccessful applicants are encouraged to register and attend the conference as well.
Submission Process:
In order to submit a poster presentation for consideration, please submit an abstract (up to 200 words) or existing poster to ccpi@uwaterloo.ca. Please include title, abstract, supervisor (if applicable), and your faculty affiliation.
The CPI Annual Conference poster session is intended to highlight posters that feature:
- Proposals for future research
- Overview of research processes
- Recent/current research results of projects related to cybersecurity and privacy
Important Dates:
- Poster abstract submission deadline: September 30, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. EST
- Notification of decision to include poster: October 10, 2025
- Event registration deadline: October 10, 2025
- CPI's 7th Annual Conference: October 28, 2025
Poster Format:
- 48" x 36" (or 4ft x 3ft)
- Portrait or landscape orientation is welcomed
- Poster paper preferred (not foam board)
Here are some guidelines that may be helpful for creating your poster.
The CPI Annual Conference planning committee looks forward to your submissions! If you have further questions, please direct them to ccpi@uwaterloo.ca
Poster Presentations: Participants and Titles
| Poster Participant | Poster Title |
|---|---|
| Shanza Shanza |
Privacy and Security Challenges of Sharing Devices in Immigrant Households |
| Alex Cook | Pluggable Properties for Program Correctness |
| Mohammadtaghi Badakhshan | Accelerating Post-quantum Secure zkSNARKs by Optimizing Additive FFT |
| Thomas Humphries | FastLlyod: Federated, Accurate, Secure, and Tunable k-Means Clustering with Differential Privacy |
| Ross Evans | Cache to the Future: Webpage Access in a Blackout |
| Rasoul Akhavan Mahdavi | Peer2PIR: Private Queries for IPFS |
| Abdul Muqtadir Abbasi | Explainable Bidirectional LSTM Autoencoder for Insider Threat Detection in Various Scenarios |
| Tanmayi Jandhyala |
Optimizing zkSNARK Protocols for Post-Quantum Secure Anonymous Credentials |
| Bishwajit Bhattacharjee | Towards oblivious property graph databases |
| Matthew Regehr | Query-Efficient Locally Private Hypothesis Selection via the Scheffe Graph |
| Nafis Ahmed | Parallel Oblivious Joins using Radix Partitioning |
| Vasisht Duddu | Unintended Interactions in ML Protections |
| JaeEun Jen Shin | Privacy Safe Child-Robot Interaction: Co-Design Usable Privacy Notice for Domestic Humanoid Social Robots |
| Tony He | Locket: Enabling Robust and Scalable Feature-Locking in Language Models |