Recent graduate Hala Assal has been awarded a CHI Best Paper Award for her 2019 paper, “Think secure from the beginning”: A Survey with Software Developers. Hala will be presenting her work at the conference in Glasgow in May. Congratulations Hala!! … [Read more...] about Hala wins CHI Best Paper award
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Daniela awarded OGS
PhD student Daniela Napoli was recently awarded a $15,000 Ontario Graduate Scholarship for 2019-2020. Daniela's research is on improving cybersecurity and privacy for users with visual impairments. Congratulations Daniela! … [Read more...] about Daniela awarded OGS
Sana wins Best Poster award
Last week, PhD student Sana Maqsood presented her research at the 2018 SERENE-RISC Annual Workshop. She won the Best Poster Award for her work on an educational game to teach tweens about digital literacy. Congratulations Sana! … [Read more...] about Sana wins Best Poster award
Hala awarded medal
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
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