Hi!

I’m an associate professor in the School of Computer Science at Carleton University and the co-director of the Carleton Internet Security Lab. My research focuses on understanding the environmental impact of cybersecurity decisions — including how security requirements drive hardware obsolescence and contribute to e-waste — and building tools that enable sustainable long-term security. I’m also interested in IoT security, data privacy, and usable authentication. I was previously an assistant professor at Polytechnique Montréal, visiting scientist at IBM Research in Zürich, and a postdoc at ETH Zürich.

News

• May 15, 2026

  I’m serving as Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair at the Privacy, Security and Trust (PST) conference. We’re looking for volunteer reviewers to join our committee. If you’re interested, send me an email!

• June 23, 2025

  We will be running a workshop that explores the intersection of cybersecurity and environmental sustainability at ACM COMPASS on July 23rd. Please visit the workshop website for more information.

• May 30, 2025

  Congratulations to Huzaifa Patel on his first conference paper accepted at the International Conference on Privacy, Security, and Trust (PST)! The paper is titled “Houdini: Benchmarking Container Security Confinement”. Huzaifa will be in Fredericton later this year to present his work.