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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.

Kami Vaniea, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, discusses this occurrence and the issues surrounding it.

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 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.

The Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute hosted a unique interdisciplinary workshop on campus that brought together University of Waterloo faculty, staff, and students, as well as industry representatives and visiting academics. Attendees spent an enjoyable and thought-provoking day Thursday, May 16, 2024, at the Enterprise Theatre in East Campus 5 exploring algorithmic game theory by hearing perspectives from both economists and computer scientists in a special speaker/presentation format organized and led by CPI’s Acting Executive Director, Anindya Sen.

Congratulations to our Winter 2024 CPI Undergraduate Award Winners!

The potential woes of winter did not stop these University of Waterloo students from excelling last term. This notable award recognizes the top performing scholar(s) in any course that has a significant cybersecurity and privacy component. Each recipient has received $1,000, which was made possible by the generous sponsorship from Mastercard Canada.

An interview with Assistant Professor Xi He, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo, Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute, and CPI Member.

Professor XI He talks about her research and teaching, as well as the salient topics surrounding her research in differential privacy.

A chat with CPI member Leah Zhang-Kennedy about making her own mark in the globally impactful field of cybersecurity and privacy as an Assistant Professor in interaction design and user experience research, and director of the Safe Interactions Lab at the University of Waterloo’s Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business.

BTQ is pleased to announce its sponsorship with the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute (“CPI”) at the University of Waterloo and establishing a multi-year relationship for R&D collaboration

CPI is excited to announce Diogo Barradas as interim Associate Director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute (CPI). Barradas has been a member of CPI since 2022 and assumes the role while the previous Associate Director, Anindya Sen, fills in as Acting Executive Director to cover a sabbatical.