Aleksander Essex

Ph.D., P.Eng.

Associate professor
Software engineering

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Hi, I'm Aleks

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.

What I'm Working On

Multi-party computation

Development of cryptographic protocols allowing parties to compute things of mutual importance, without learning anything more about each other data.

Privacy-preserving health informatics

Developing technology that can help medical researchers get access to important health data while working within privacy laws.

Trustworthy elections

Designing technology and standards to secure electronic and online voting systems and provide evidence the results are accurate while protecting ballot secrecy.

Public-key Cryptography

Design of novel homomorphic public-key encryption schemes.

Data Privacy

Identifying the privacy impact of new technologies like machine learning, 5G, IoT, mobile apps, etc.

Web Security

Cryptanalysis and measurement of online protocols and implementations.

In the News

Research Talks

Recent Publications

Mounika Pratapa and Aleksander Essex.
30th International Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC), 2023 (to appear).
Nicole Goodman, Iuliia Spycher-Krivonosova, James Brunet and Aleksander Essex.
International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting (E-Vote-ID), 2023 (to appear)
James Brunet and Aleksander Essex.
International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting (E-Vote-ID), 2023 (to appear)
James Brunet, Athanasios Demetri Pananos and Aleksander Essex.
International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting (E-Vote-ID), LNCS vol. 13553, pp. 36–52, 2022
Aleksander Essex and Nicole Goodman.
In, Cyber Threats to Canadian Democracy, McGill-Queen's University Press. Holly Ann Garnett and Michael Pal eds. ISBN 9780228011477, 2022
Leah Krehling, Aleksander Essex.
Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy, 1(4), 597-614, 2021.

Course Lectures


Fingerprinting with Hash Functions
SE 4472: Information Security

Encrypting with Block Ciphers
SE 4472: Information Security

Semantic Security and the One-Time Pad
SE 4472: Information Security

Encryption Basics and Classical Ciphers
SE 4472: Information Security

Information Security Goals and Principles
SE 4472: Information Security
Phone

+1 (519) 661-2111
ext. 87290

Mailing Address

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5B9

Email

aessex@uwo.ca

Encrypted email:

aessex@protonmail.com

Twitter

@aleksessex

Office

Thompson Engineering Building
Room 235
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Youtube

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