New Students Looking for a Supervisor (advice from professor
Van Oorschot):
Canadian students considering a graduate degree:
I am always interested to receive email from prospective students who are
Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada.
Your email may be the most important thing that I read today!
Young students are our future leaders (although you may not believe that yet).
Good grades, and some background in security
(how else would you know that you are truly interested?) are naturally helpful.
Here is the computer and network security
textbook
used in our undergraduate systems security course in the School of Computer Science at Carleton.
I look forward to your email.
International grad students:
If you are neither a Canadian citizen nor a permanent resident of Canada,
it is unlikely that I will be able to give you a personal response, due
to the large volume of email inquiries---but reading what follows may increase your chances.
Prospective international Master's students at Carleton also face
significant international tuition fees (these are reduced for PhD
students), aside from relatively high living expenses. These fees
present an insurmountable barrier to many non-residents,
and I am unable to fully offset them with research funding.
If you are so fortunate as to be able to partially fund your own significant expenses,
then fill out this information form;
for Master's students, this serves as a filter to test how serious you are.
If you are a prospective international PhD student and would like a response,
send within your email a preliminary PhD research proposal---that is what I
will be looking for as a signal that you are serious and qualified.
In all cases, I suggest reading my advice page: "Will you be my Master's/PhD supervisor or post-doctoral host?" and related questions.
Current PhD students (supervised, *co-supervised):