Gordon Agnew, PhD, FTICA, FCAE, FAAIA. PEng

Gordon B. Agnew is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Waterloo. He is also a co-founder of Certicom Corp.

Professor Agnew’s main research interests include cryptography, data security, communication security, block-chain systems and high speed communication networks.

He is a Foundation Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. In addition to his research work, Professor Agnew has published conference papers, journal papers and chapters in books.

• Cryptography, data security, Communication security, High speed communication networks, Communication & Information Systems, Computer & Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, Application security, Privacy and cryptography, Information security, Network security,

• 1982, Doctorate PhD, University of Waterloo, Ontario
• 1978, Bachelor's BASc, University of Waterloo, Ontario

• ECE 222 - Digital Computers
  • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021
• ECE 409 - Cryptography and System Security
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022
• ECE 628 - Computer Network Security
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022

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• Ahmadzadeh, Seyed Ali and Agnew, Gordon, Covert channels in multiple access protocols, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 404, 2011
• Tirta, Yuldi and Lau, Bennett and Malhotra, Nipoon and Bagchi, Saurabh and Li, Zhiyuan and Lu, Yung-Hsiang and Cao, Guohong and Kesidis, G and LaPorta, Thomas and Yao, Bin and others, Purposeful Mobility and Navigation, Sensor Network Operations, 91, 2009
• Adibi, Sasan and Agnew, Gordon B, Extensible authentication (EAP) protocol integrations in the next generation cellular networks, , , 2008
• Adibi, Sasan and Agnew, Gordon B, End-to-end security comparisons between IEEE 802.16 e and 3G technologies, Handbook of Research on Wireless Security, , 2008
• Adibi, Sasan and Agnew, Gordon B, Security measures for mobile ad-hoc network (MANETs), Handbook of Research on Wireless Security, IGI Global Inc., ISBN, 978, 2008