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Aleksander Essex
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Read how they describe their research on their Western University profile.
Latest papers
Geospatial cryptography: enabling researchers to access private, spatially referenced, human subjects data for cancer control and prevention.
Journal of geographical systems · 2017
A privacy preserving protocol for tracking participants in phase I clinical trials.
Journal of biomedical informatics · 2015
Secure surveillance of antimicrobial resistant organism colonization or infection in Ontario long term care homes.
PloS one · 2014
Latest funding
- $32,486
When Digital Elections Go Wrong
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
- $995,862
The Human-Centric Cybersecurity Partnership
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
- $205,000
Privacy, Identity and Trust in Electronic Voting Technologies
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
3 publications.
Geospatial cryptography: enabling researchers to access private, spatially referenced, human subjects data for cancer control and prevention.
Jacquez GM, Essex A, Curtis A, Kohler B, Sherman R, Emam KE, Shi C, Kaufmann A, Beale L, Cusick T, Goldberg D, Goovaerts P
A privacy preserving protocol for tracking participants in phase I clinical trials.
El Emam K, Farah H, Samet S, Essex A, Jonker E, Kantarcioglu M, Earle CC
Secure surveillance of antimicrobial resistant organism colonization or infection in Ontario long term care homes.
El Emam K, Arbuckle L, Essex A, Samet S, Eze B, Middleton G, Buckeridge D, Jonker E, Moher E, Earle C
When Digital Elections Go Wrong
Principal investigators: Goodman, Nicole
Keywords: Cyber security; Digital elections; Municipal government; Electronic tabulators; Telephone voting; Online voting; Regulation; Risk exposure; Election reform; Ontario
The Human-Centric Cybersecurity Partnership
Keywords: cybersecurity; privacy; democracy; regulation; standardization; resilience; elections; behaviour change; cybercrime; usable machines; evidence-based policies
Privacy, Identity and Trust in Electronic Voting Technologies
Principal investigators: Essex, Aleksander
Keywords: public-key cryptography; online voting; privacy; trust; identity; election technology
Science Odyssey
Principal investigators: Essex, Aleksander
Science Literacy Week
Principal investigators: Essex, Aleksander
Expansion of Digital Literacy Programs in Underserved Communities
Principal investigators: Essex, Aleksander
Inspiring Future Makers through a Community MakerSpace
Principal investigators: Essex, Aleksander
Applications of Secure Computation
Principal investigators: Essex, Aleksander
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Khaled El Emam and Aleksander Essex: 2 shared papers
- David Buckeridge and Khaled El Emam: 1 shared paper
- David Buckeridge and Aleksander Essex: 1 shared paper
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Pediatrics
- Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
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