Computer Science Professors Diogo Barradas and Urs Hengartner have won the Best Research Paper Award at the 20th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), held in Ghent, Belgium, from August 10 to 13, 2025.
ARES is one of the most reputable conferences in IT security and privacy. For the past 20 years, it has focused on rigorous and novel research in the field of dependability, computer and information security.
This year, ARES recognized Professors Barradas and Hengartner, alongside Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering Professor Yue Hu, and computer engineering undergraduate student Cheng Tang, for their paper, On the Feasibility of Fingerprinting Collaborative Robot Network Traffic. Professors Barradas, Hengartner, and Hu are also faculty members of the University of Waterloo’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute.
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