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Canadian engineering professor

Gordon Agnew

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Key facts

date of birth1954
educated atUniversity of Waterloo
occupationcomputer scientist, engineer
employerUniversity of Waterloo
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Education
University of Waterloo (BASc, PhD)
Discipline
Engineering
Sub-discipline
EncryptionData security
Institutions
University of Waterloo

Gordon B. Agnew is a Canadian engineering professor at the University of Waterloo. Agnew's primary research interests are in the fields of encryption and data security.

Education

Agnew earned a B.A.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo in 1978 and a Ph.D. in 1982.

Career

After earning his PhD, Agnew joined the electrical and computer engineering department of University of Waterloo. Agnew also co-founded Certicom, which was later acquired by BlackBerry Limited. Agnew joined Peer Ledger as Co-CEO in 2019.

Agnew is a Foundation Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications and is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.

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