The Security & Privacy Research Group is a cross-faculty initiative at the University of Toronto. Our faculty work across areas like applied cryptography, hardware and systems security, privacy, and machine learning security.

Faculty


Anwar Hithnawi

Computer Science

  • Research interests in privacy-preserving systems and applied cryptography.

  • Builds practical techniques for secure computation and privacy in real-world systems.


David Lie

Electrical & Computer Engineering

  • Works on systems and platform security, including trusted execution and mobile/cloud security.

  • Focuses on building practical defenses and secure computing abstractions.


Nicolas Papernot

Electrical & Computer Engineering

  • Research at the intersection of security, privacy, and machine learning.

  • Studies robust/secure ML and privacy-preserving learning techniques.


Tom Ristenpart

Computer Science

  • Research in computer security and privacy, including applied cryptography and authentication.

  • Recent work includes technology safety and privacy in interpersonal abuse settings.


Gururaj Saileshwar

Computer Science

  • Research at the intersection of computer security and computer architecture.

  • Focus areas include microarchitectural security, hardware/system security, and security for AI/ML systems.