Scholarships

Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute Undergraduate Award

CPI Undergraduate Awards for 2024 have launched. Full-time undergraduate students enrolled in the following course offerings are eligible:

Winter 2025 courses: CO 487, CS 453, CS 459, and CS 489

Spring 2024 courses: CS489 4189, CS489 4927, and ECE 458

Winter 2024 courses: AFM 347, CO 487, CS 453, CS 459, and ECE 409

Fall 2023 courses: AFM 347, CO 487, CS 458, GBDA 303, GBDA 414, SOCI/LS 305, SOC/LS 413, and SOC/LS 435 

Spring 2023 courses: CS 458, ECE 458, and SOC/LS 413 
 
 
Each course offering will be assigned one award (courses with large enrollment may be assigned additional awards). Course instructors will select the winner(s) based on the overall grade in the course (minimum 90%). Each award is $1000.

Selection criteria:
For selecting the winner, instructors are required to use the overall course grade (minimum 90%). However, they can choose to use additional criteria (only for) breaking ties, including:
• additional objective criteria like consistency of performance in all the course deliverables (e.g., over 80% in all deliverables) and/or
• additional subjective criteria (like extent of participation in-class or in class forums)
Interested students should review eligibility details about the award
 
Term Courses Winners Sponsor
Winter 2025

CO 487

CS 453

CS 459

CS 489

TBD TBD
Spring 2024

CS489 4189

CS489 4927

ECE 458

Maya Coles

Tony Zhou

Sterling Tenn

Mastercard Canada
Winter 2024

AFM 347

CO 487

CS 453/489

CS 459/489

ECE 409

Cynthia Lai Kin

Greyson Gould & Jack Zhao

Zhengyi Zhao

Minh Nguyen

Jahnavi Shah

Mastercard Canada & BlackBerry
Fall 2023

AFM 347

CO 487

CS 458

GBDA 303

GBDA 414                

SOC/LS 435

Jathushan Vasanthakumar

Ryan Wu & Jason Ye

Xiaoyu Yang

Amna Malik

Jacquelyn Yu

Vanessa Vanpopic

Mastercard Canada & BlackBerry

Spring 2023

CS 458

ECE 458                      

SOC/LS 413

Andrew Dong & Samuel Orend

Taya Davison & Willard Ma

Angie Yuliana Zuluaga

CPI
Spring 2022

CS 458      

ECE 458   

Nathan Eric Grewal

Jack Guo

CPI - (Pilot Program)
Winter 2022 CS 458       Ting Wei Liu CPI - (Pilot Program)

CPI deeply appreciates the efforts of our faculty members who agree to take on the difficult task of evaluating the many worthy applicants for our scholarships. As such, we have listed their names next to the awards and years they helped adjudicate.

Scholarship Reviewers by Year & Award


Excellence Graduate Scholarship:

2024 W. Alec Cram Roberto Guglielmi Yousra Aafer

2023                               

Gautam C. Kamath  

Arie Gurfinkel

W. Alec Cram

2022

Anindya Sen

W. Alec Cram

Werner Dietl

2021

Bernard Wong

Alec Cram            

Vijay Ganesh


Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute Undergraduate Award:

Spring 2023

CS 458

Diogo Barradas

ECE 458

Carlos Moreno

SOC/LS 413

Jen Whitson

Winter 2022 

CS 458           

Hans Liljestrand        

Meng Xu

Spring 2022  

CS 458           

Ian Goldberg

Diogo Barradas

ECE 458

Guang Gong


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