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.
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Congratulations to Vasisht Duddu and Rasoul Akhavan, the 2024 winners of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Excellence Graduate Scholarships
Congratulations to Vasisht Duddu and Rasoul Akhavan, the 2024 winners of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Excellence Graduate Scholarships. Generously sponsored by MasterCard and BTQ, each of these graduate students will receive $10,000 for attaining this prestigious award. We had many high calibre applicants for this year's scholarships, the competition was the highest level it has been since the inception of this award in 2019.
Human factors of security and cybersecurity professor at University of Waterloo reflects on CrowdStrike global tech outage
Kami Vaniea, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, discusses this occurrence and the issues surrounding it.
Meet Waterloo’s Trailblazer in Cybersecurity and Privacy Research
Explore the scholarly journey and legacy of CPI’s inaugural executive director, Florian Kerschbaum, and his globally impactful research as part of our ongoing Spotlight Series.
CPI Talk: Nicolas Papernot on Characterizing Machine Unlearning through Definitions and Implementations
CPI would like to thank Nicolas Papernot for coming out to the University of Waterloo and giving such an engaging talk on Thursday, June 20. Papernot presented the benefits of machine unlearning along with its challenges and potential solutions.