We found out today that Hala Assal has been awarded a Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement for this fall convocation. https://carleton.ca/convocation/medals-awards/ Hala defended her PhD this summer and is currently a postdoc at uOttawa. Congratulations Hala! … [Read more...] about Hala awarded medal
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CRC in User Centric Cybersecurity
Sonia's Canada Research Chair in User Centric Cybersecurity has been renewed for an additional 5 years. … [Read more...] about CRC in User Centric Cybersecurity
Mentoring award
Sonia was awarded a Carleton 2016 Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award, after nominations by her current and former students. The ceremony was held on March 1. … [Read more...] about Mentoring award
Early Researcher Award
The Ontario government has announced the winners of the ERA - Early Researcher Awards for 2016. We were awarded a 5 year grant to support research in usable security for children. The Carleton news release is available here. … [Read more...] about Early Researcher Award
APWG eCrime Honorable Mention
We are happy to share that our paper entitled Smells Phishy? An educational game about online phishing scams won an Honorable Mention for the Best Paper award at this year's APWG eCrime conference. The paper describes Malak's work on the design, development, and evaluation of a board game to teach about phishing. … [Read more...] about APWG eCrime Honorable Mention
Michael Lutaaya wins Apple scholarship
Undergraduate and former CHORUS lab Research Assistant Michael Lutaaya was recently awarded an Apple scholarship to attend their upcoming week-long WWDC Developers' Conference in June in San Francisco. To apply for the scholarship, he had to submit an app that he's worked on that shows creative use of Apple technologies and write an essay about his programming process. Apples says they received a record number of submissions and that the process was "extremely" competitive. … [Read more...] about Michael Lutaaya wins Apple scholarship
Malak wins IEEE Award
Malak Baslyman recently won the IEEE First Place Poster Award at the University of Ottawa annual poster competition. She presented her Smells Phishy? game designed and developed for her final project in the Security & Usability graduate course. She was featured in the Ottawa Business Journal. … [Read more...] about Malak wins IEEE Award