Catherine Gebotys, PEng
Adjunct Professor Emeritus
Email: cgebotys@uwaterloo.ca
Biography
Catherine H. Gebotys is an Adjunct Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo.
Her research interests include embedded systems security, side channel analysis for secure devices, security countermeasures for cryptographic algorithms, and countermeasures for hardware hacking – side channel, fault injection, microprobing and reverse engineering.
Dr. Gebotys is the sole inventor of several patents and has also received numerous awards, including the CITO Champions of Innovation Award. In addition, she has collaborated with several companies including DRDC, XtremeEDA, Blackberry, Motorola, ViXS, and COMDEV.
Dr. Gebotys has published a number of research papers in the areas of side channel analysis, embedded security, applied optimization for high-level hardware and software synthesis. She is the author of Security in Embedded Devices, as well as the co-author of Optimal VLSI Architectural Synthesis: area, performance and testability.
Her research interests include embedded systems security, side channel analysis for secure devices, security countermeasures for cryptographic algorithms, and countermeasures for hardware hacking – side channel, fault injection, microprobing and reverse engineering.
Dr. Gebotys is the sole inventor of several patents and has also received numerous awards, including the CITO Champions of Innovation Award. In addition, she has collaborated with several companies including DRDC, XtremeEDA, Blackberry, Motorola, ViXS, and COMDEV.
Dr. Gebotys has published a number of research papers in the areas of side channel analysis, embedded security, applied optimization for high-level hardware and software synthesis. She is the author of Security in Embedded Devices, as well as the co-author of Optimal VLSI Architectural Synthesis: area, performance and testability.
Research Interests
- Embedded security
- Security countermeasures
- Side channel analysis
- Fault injection analysis
- Photon emissions analysis
Education
- 1991, Doctorate Electrical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario
- 1984, Master's Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto, Ontario
- 1982, Bachelor's Engineering Science, University of Toronto, Ontario
Teaching*
- ECE 124 - Digital Circuits and Systems
- Taught in 2019
- ECE 222 - Digital Computers
- Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.
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Graduate studies
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