Aleksander Essex
Ph.D., P.Eng.
Associate professor
Software engineering
Associate professor
Software engineering
I'm an associate professor of software engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Western University. My research is in cybersecurity, cryptography, and secure computation, which I use to try and make the world a safer, more private place.
I'm fighting to secure our democratic institutions in the digital age through the development and standardization of trustworthy, publicly accountable election practices and technology.
I run Whisper Lab, the Western Information Security and Privacy Research laboratory.
Development of cryptographic protocols allowing parties to compute things of mutual importance, without learning anything more about each other data.
Developing technology that can help medical researchers get access to important health data while working within privacy laws.
Designing technology and standards to secure electronic and online voting systems and provide evidence the results are accurate while protecting ballot secrecy.
Design of novel homomorphic public-key encryption schemes.
Identifying the privacy impact of new technologies like machine learning, 5G, IoT, mobile apps, etc.
Cryptanalysis and measurement of online protocols and implementations.
+1 (519) 661-2111
ext. 87290
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5B9
aessex@uwo.ca
Encrypted email:
aessex@protonmail.com