Natalia Stakhanova, University of Saskatchewan

Research

obfuscation software protection security of next generation embedded devices threat prediction vulnerability mitigation AI-based analysis root cause analysis adversarial attribution adversary analysis intrusion detection software protection malware

Latest funding

Security and Privacy
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$100,000
Attribution of phishing email campaigns
NSERC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$39,920
NSERC CREATE in Software Analytics Research (SOAR)
NSERC · 2020 · Co-investigator
$1,350,000

All 8 grants and awards

Security and Privacy

Principal investigatorNSERC2023Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Stakhanova, Natalia

Keywords: security of next generation embedded devices; threat prediction; vulnerability mitigation; AI-based analysis; root cause analysis

$100,000

Attribution of phishing email campaigns

Principal investigatorNSERC2021Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Stakhanova, Natalia

$39,920

NSERC CREATE in Software Analytics Research (SOAR)

Co-investigatorNSERC2020Collaborative Research and Training Experience

Principal investigators: Roy, Chanchal Kumar CKR

Keywords: automated software engineering; machine; software analytics; software maintenance and evolution; software renovation analytics; software security analytics; technical debt analytics; visual analytics for software

$1,350,000

Subverting adversarial attribution

Principal investigatorNSERC2020Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Stakhanova, Natalia

Keywords: software protection; obfuscation

$145,000

Security and Privacy

Principal investigatorNSERC2018Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Stakhanova, Natalia

$120,000

Security and Privacy

Principal investigatorNSERC2018Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Stakhanova, Natalia

Keywords: adversarial attribution adversary analysis intrusion detection software protection malware

$360,000

Security and Privacy

Principal investigatorNSERC2018Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Stakhanova, Natalia

$120,000

Towards Malware Author Attribution

Principal investigatorNSERC2015Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Stakhanova, Natalia

$90,000

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: obfuscation Dear Professor Stakhanova, 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 obfuscation 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 "Security and Privacy" (2023), 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]