Anwar Hasan, PEng
Biography
Dr. Anwar Hasan is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo and holds the Ripple Chair. He is also a faculty member at Waterloo's Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute. From January 2013 to April 2018, Dr. Hasan served as the Associate Dean of Research and External Partnerships for the Faculty of Engineering.
Dr. Hasan's research focuses on cryptographic computations and embedded systems, dependable and secure computing, and security for cloud computing and the Internet of Things (IoT).
He has contributed to numerous books, journal articles, and conference papers and has received several awards recognizing his outstanding achievements in research.
Research Interests
Cryptographic Hardware
Embedded Systems
Dependable and Secure Computing
Computer Arithmetic
Computer Architecture
Computer Security
Network Security
Computer & Software Engineering
Cloud Technology
Security
Cybersecurity
Blockchain
Privacy and Cryptography
Information Security
Operational Security
Education
1992, Doctorate Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Victoria, British Columbia
1988, Master's Computer Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
1986, Bachelor's Electrical & Computer Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Awards
2000 Faculty of Engineering Distinguished Performance Award
2004 UW, Outstanding Performance Award
2000 Raihan Memorial Gold Medal
2000 President's Research Scholarship
Service
2013-2018 Associate Dean of Research and External Partnerships, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo
Teaching*
- ECE 124 - Digital Circuits and Systems
- Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
- ECE 720 - Special Topics in Computers and Digital Systems Software
- Taught in 2020
* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.
Selected/Recent Publications
M. Cenk and M.A. Hasan, On the Arithmetic Complexity of Strassen-Like Matrix Multiplications, Journal of Symbolic Computation, 848, 2017
J.-C. Bajard, J. Eynard, A. Hasan and V. Zucca, A Full RNS Variant of FV like Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption Schemes, Selected Areas in Cryptology, St. John’s, NL, , 2016
N. Meloni and M. A. Hasan, Efficient Double Bases for Scalar Multiplication, IEEE Trans. Computers, 2204, 2015
A. Barsoum and M. A. Hasan, Provable Multi-Copy Dynamic Data Possession in Cloud Computing Systems, IEEE Trans. Information Forensics and Security, 485, 2015
P. Tysowski and M. A. Hasan, Hybrid Attribute- and Re-Encryption-Based Key Management for Secure and Scalable Mobile Applications in Clouds, IEEE Trans. Cloud Computing, 172, 2013
M. A. Hasan and C. Negre, Multi-way Splitting Method for Toeplitz Matrix Vector Product, IEEE Trans. Computers, 1467, 2013
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