Alumni

As 2024 comes to a close, here is a brief recap on what has been a very impactful year for the University of Waterloo’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute.

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.

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 (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.

University of Waterloo students continued to shine last term and were rewarded thanks to the generous sponsorship from Mastercard Canada.

Dr. Alfred Menezes, has launched a short "Kyber and Dilithium" course. The CPI member recently published an online course that introduces the quantum-safe key encapsulation and signature schemes based on lattices that were standardized by the US government's National Institute for Standards and Technology last month.
 

Congratulations to Vasisht Duddu and Rasoul Akhavan Mahdavi, 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.