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PhD candidate Safwan Alfattani from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has been awarded the grand prize at an IEEE Future Networks and CST international paper conference.

New technologies are needed to keep encryption efficient and secure in the face of cyber threats in a new age of quantum computing.

Professor Guy-Vincent Jourdan approaches cybercrime defence from a "zero-victim" standpoint: he looks for ways to detect cyber-attacks as soon as they occur, and ideally before they can do any damage.

Software engineers at the Faculty of Engineering are at the forefront of IoT research, creating artificial intelligence-enabled simulation environments that allow companies to effectively test their IoT systems before large-scale deployment.

uOttawa researchers Ghassan Jabbour and Ned Booker used AI to find a narrow set of chemicals that can disarm the spike proteins of the COVID-19 virus. When bound to a select class of nanoparticles, these chemicals can be coated or printed onto any surface or material under the sun.

As 2020 was coming to an end, Professor Melike Erol-Kantarci received consecutively three distinctions for her research work in wireless networks and communications. We got a glimpse into the future of technology as we sat down with her to discuss her recent accomplishments, the origin of her passion for computer engineering, and the state of research in wireless networks.

Having just received the prestigious title of 2020 ACM Fellow, Lionel Briand, Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Faculty of Engineering, explains how his unusual approach to research in Software Engineering is closing the gap between academia and industry.

Over the last few years it’s become commonplace to receive text messages on your watch or track your health through your phone as technology has changed how we interact with ourselves and others.

From AI to big data, our society is rapidly changing. With that change comes a host of privacy and security issues that must be addressed. Two School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science professors at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Engineering are leading that charge.

Since the New Year, the Faculty of Engineering has welcomed four new professors to its team. We are pleased to welcome Dr. Stéphanie Guilherme, Dr. Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, Dr. Shiva Nejati and Dr. Paula Branco. The Faculty is extremely excited to welcome these talented professors on campus!