Gordon Agnew | |
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Academic background | |
Education | University of Waterloo (BASc, PhD) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Engineering |
Sub-discipline | Encryption Data 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.
Agnew earned a B.A.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo in 1978 and a Ph.D. in 1982.
After earning his PhD, Agnew joined the electrical and computer engineering department of University of Waterloo.[1] Agnew also co-founded Certicom, which was later acquired by BlackBerry Limited. Agnew joined Peer Ledger as Co-CEO in 2019. [2][3]
Agnew is a Foundation Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications and is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.