Our People

Members

A multi-disciplinary team of faculty, researchers, and trainees drawn from Electrical & Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Industrial Engineering.

Core Members

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Mitra Mirhassani

Co-Founder & Director
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering · P.Eng · Killam NRC Paul Corkum Fellow (2026)
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Ikjot Saini

Co-Director
Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science · V2X & connected-vehicle security
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Ning Zhang

Director of Innovation
Embedded systems & secure hardware
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Beth-Anne Schuelke-Leech

Policy Director
Engineering policy & technology governance

Current Students & HQP

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Peiman Kheiran

Ph.D. Candidate
Homomorphic encryption in privacy-by-design of health-monitoring devices
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Mariam Guirguis

Ph.D. Candidate
Privacy & security of the TFHE process for wearable devices
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Wardah Saleh

Ph.D. Candidate
Context modelling for safety-critical V2V communication
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Hasan Rekabi

Ph.D. Candidate
Enhancing privacy in sparse neural networks using homomorphic encryption
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Kunj Dhonde

Ph.D. Candidate
Firmware fuzzing for CAV security analysis and testing
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Shiva Nejati

Ph.D. Candidate
ASIC implementation of CRYSTALS-Kyber for post-quantum cryptography
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Harikrishnan Balagopal

Ph.D. Candidate
Design of secure hardware against fault injection
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Prashee Arora

Ph.D. Candidate
Side-channel-resistant CRYSTALS-Kyber algorithm
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Ifrah Andleeb

Ph.D. Candidate
Robust road-sign recognition against adversarial attacks for autonomous vehicles
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Asal Hashemi

M.A.Sc. Student
Custom design of lightweight post-quantum cryptography
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Nadia Khalili

M.A.Sc. Student
Secure defence for post-quantum cryptography schemes

Alumni

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Peiman Kheiran

M.A.Sc., 2026
Preserving insurance and mobility data using homomorphic encryption

Foroogh Behnia

Ph.D., 2025
Strategic and operational optimization of electric-bus scheduling with partial charging and disruption management

Narges Rahimi

Ph.D., 2025
Customizing Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment (TARA) for heavy-duty vehicles

Emilio Quaggiotto

M.A.Sc., 2024
Accelerating homomorphic conversions with GPU

Avinash Karhana

M.A.Sc., 2024
ML-based detection of false-alert attacks in VANETs · now DevSecOps Engineer, IBM Canada

Saad Pola

Ph.D., 2024
Resiliency enhancement of active distribution networks during grid faults and cyber threats

Madhan Thirumoorthi

Ph.D., 2023
Hardware design and implementation of polynomial multipliers for finite-field arithmetic

Fahimeh Pakzad

M.A.Sc., 2023
High-radix, efficient hardware implementation of modular integer multiplication for IoT cryptosystems

Daisy Daisy

M.A.Sc., 2021
Detection of hardware Trojans using machine learning

Hamidreza Esmaeili Taheri

Ph.D., 2021
Design of low-power, high-resolution readout circuits for capacitive sensing

Neda Rezaei

Ph.D., 2021
Design and implementation of low-power SRAM using highly effective level shifters

Alex Leigh

Ph.D., 2020
Hardware realization of spiking neurons based on the multipartite method

Harikrishnan Balagopal

M.A.Sc., 2020
A novel Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) featuring 0.113 fJ/b for IoT devices

Kunj Dhonde

M.A.Sc., 2020
Real-time method for detection and estimation of corrosion in vehicles

Meitong Pan

M.A.Sc., 2020
Hardware acceleration of elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC)

Iman Taha

Ph.D., 2018
Temperature-compensated relaxation oscillator for SoC implementations

Siva Balasubramanian

M.A.Sc., 2018
Public Unclonable Functions for IoT security

Bahar Youssefi

Ph.D., 2017
Mixed-signal neural-network implementation with programmable neuron for improved generalization

Dylan Lalonde

M.A.Sc., 2017
Implementation of a Montgomery-ladder multiplier for side-channel resistance

Yue Huang

M.A.Sc., 2017
Efficient scalar multiplication against side-channel attacks using a new number representation

Yuan Jing

M.A.Sc., 2016
Digital template-matching networks with on-line learning

Babak Zamanlooy

Ph.D., 2013
Hardware implementation of CVNS-based neural networks

Farinoush Saffar

M.A.Sc., 2012
Mixed-signal feed-forward neural-network architecture using a high-resolution multiplying D/A converter

Ashley Novak

M.A.Sc., 2012
Mixed-signal carry look-ahead adder with constant power for cryptographic applications

Golnar Khodabandehloo

Ph.D., 2011
A prototype CVNS distributed neural network

Narges Rahimi

Postdoc, 2025–26
OVIN-supported TARA assessment for Ontario SMEs

Behnam Rahmati

Postdoc, 2024–25
Semi-supervised segmentation of medical images using informative redundancy

Alex Leigh

Postdoc, 2022–23
Post-quantum encryption circuit and system design

Moslem Heidarpur

Postdoc, 2020–26
Optimization of n-way multiplication for finite-field multipliers

Sima Soltanpour

Postdoc, 2018–19
Automated inspection of highly reflective automotive parts