Peng Tan, University of Calgary

Research

bug detection electronic design automation embedded systems hardware security patching system-on-chip adversarial ml artificial intelligence

Latest funding

Enhancing cybersecurity through advanced reasoning in large language models
NSERC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$50,000
Managing Risks of AI-generated Code in the Software Supply Chain
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$102,416
Improving Hardware Security During Design And Deployment
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$12,500

All 4 grants and awards

Enhancing cybersecurity through advanced reasoning in large language models

Co-investigatorNSERC2024Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Bitoun, Thomas Charles Maurice TCM

Keywords: cybersecurity; reasoning

$50,000

Managing Risks of AI-generated Code in the Software Supply Chain

Principal investigatorNSERC2022Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Tan, Peng Seng Benjamin PSB

Keywords: adversarial ml; artificial intelligence; code classification; cybersecurity; dataset poisoning; deep neural networks; large language models; software engineering; software supply chain

$102,416

Improving Hardware Security During Design And Deployment

Principal investigatorNSERC2022Discovery Launch Supplement

Principal investigators: Tan, Peng Seng Benjamin

$12,500

Improving Hardware Security During Design And Deployment

Principal investigatorNSERC2022Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Tan, Peng Seng Benjamin

Keywords: hardware security; system-on-chip; patching; embedded systems; electronic design automation; bug detection

$78,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: bug detection Dear Professor Tan, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on bug detection connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your NSERC-funded project "Managing Risks of AI-generated Code in the Software Supply Chain" (2022), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]