About Us
The Computer Security Research Lab (CSRL) conducts research on the security of computer systems, with a scope that includes personal computers, computer networks, smartphones, wearable devices, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Our research improves protections against cyberthreats that target computer systems and their users. Our research group is led by Prof. Furkan Alaca and we are located at 624 Goodwin Hall at the Queen's University School of Computing.
News
Congratulations to Nafiz Sadman for successfully defending his MSc thesis! Nafiz's thesis, titled "DepthPulse: A Passive Liveness Detection Framework for Face Presentation Attacks", contributes to strengthening face-recognition based user authentication systems against presentation attacks (also known as spoofing attacks).
Congratulations to Christopher Molloy for successfully defending his PhD thesis! Chris' thesis, titled "Adversarial Learning for Cyber Threat Intelligence: An Attention on Malware", proposes novel deep-learning based techniques to defend computer systems against malware.
Arash Gholami successfully defended his MSc thesis titled "A Smartwatch-Based Continuous Authentication System". Congratulations, Arash! Arash has also recently begun a new role as a cybersecurity consultant at clockworkX in Germany, where he is currently focusing on automotive security. We eagerly anticipate his contributions to this evolving field!
Ian Pépin successfully defended his MSc thesis titled "A Privacy-Preserving Analytics Pipeline for De-Identified Primary Care Data". Congratulations, Ian! Ian has also recently joined CGI Inc. as a cybersecurity consultant. We wish him success in his new cybersecurity career!
Anthony Tam will present our paper If-This-Then-Allow-That (to Phone Home): A Trigger-Based Network Policy Enforcement Framework for Smart Homes on December 14 at the International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security in Ottawa. This work was done in collaboration with Prof. David Barrera from Carleton University. Congratulations to Anthony for his first accepted conference paper!