Popular Scholarships

NSERC is the name of the federal funding agency that funds Science and Engineering research. A summary of the graduate scholarships available through NSERC can be found here.

Carleton University has a summary page of many other scholarships, beyond what is provided by NSERC, which can be found here.

The table below summarizes the most popular scholarships. We encourage every graduate student in our group to apply for one of the following.

Scholarship Amount ($$) Application Deadline (roughly) Eligibility Notes
OGS5K/term for 2--3 termsNovInternational/DomesticCarleton info here.
QEII-GSST5K/term for 2--6 termsOctInternational/Domestic
CGS–Master's17.5K/year for 1 yearNov-Dec (master's). Sep (PhD)Domestic
PGS–Doctoral21K/year for 3 yearsOctDomestic PhDYou cannot apply for both CGS–Master's and a PGS–Doctoral in the same year.
CGS – Doctoral35K/year for 3 yearsOctDomestic PhDNo application. You are considered automatically upon applying to PGS–Doctoral.
Vanier50K/year for 3 yearsSep—NovInternational/Domestic PhDNo application. Inform the faculty of graduate studies for your intent to apply.

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Conferences on Networking and Security

Conference data pulled from (external) >> Security and Privacy Conference Deadlines
PETS 2024
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium
July 15–20 // Bristol, UK
259 days 07h 03m 15s
Deadline: 1 Mar 2026, 10:59:59 am
Rolling deadline every quarter

CHES 2024
IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
September // TBD
215 days 08h 03m 15s
Deadline: 16 Jan 2026, 11:59:59 am
Rolling deadline every quarter

S&P (Oakland) 2024
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
May 20 – 23 // San Francisco, California, USA
2 years ago
Deadline: 7 Dec 2023, 11:59:59 am

CCS 2023
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
November 26–30 // Copenhagen, Denmark
2 years ago
Deadline: 5 May 2023, 11:59:59 am

USENIX Security 2024
USENIX Security Symposium
August 14–16 // Philadelphia, PA, USA
a year ago
Deadline: 9 Feb 2024, 11:59:59 am

NDSS 2024
ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium
February 26 – March 1 // San Diego, CA, USA
2 years ago
Deadline: 29 Jun 2023, 11:59:59 am

ESORICS 2023
European Symposium on Research in Computer Security
September 25–29 // The Hague, Netherlands
2 years ago
Deadline: 5 Jun 2023, 11:59:59 am

ASIACCS 2024
ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security
July 1–5 // Singapore
2 years ago
Deadline: 8 Dec 2023, 11:59:59 am

CSF 2024
IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium
July 08 – 12 // Enschede, The Netherlands
a year ago
Deadline: 4 Feb 2024, 11:59:59 am

CANS 2023
International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security
October 31–November 2 // Atlanta, United States
2 years ago
Deadline: 8 Jul 2023, 11:59:59 am
Extended deadline

WiSec 2023
ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks
May 29 – June 1 // Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom
2 years ago
Deadline: 18 Feb 2023, 11:59:59 am

SOUPS 2023
Usenix Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy
August 6–8 // Anaheim, CA, USA.
2 years ago
Deadline: 17 Feb 2023, 11:59:59 am
Collocated with Usenix Security; Paper registration due Feb 10 AoE.

FC 2023
Financial Cryptography and Data Security
May 1–5, 2023 or May 8–12, 2023 (tentative) // Bol, Croatia
3 years ago
Deadline: 20 Oct 2022, 11:59:59 am

Euro S&P 2024
IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy
July 8 – 12 // Vienna, Austria
2 years ago
Deadline: 3 Nov 2023, 11:59:59 am

ISC 2023
Information Security Conference
November 15 – 17 // Groningen, Netherlands
2 years ago
Deadline: 28 Jul 2023, 11:59:59 am

TrustCom 2023
International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications
November 1 – 3 // Exeter, UK
2 years ago
Deadline: 2 Jul 2023, 11:59:59 am

FPS 2023
The 16th Foundations and Practice of Security Symposium
Dec 11–13 // Bordeaux, France
2 years ago
Deadline: 16 Sep 2023, 11:59:59 am

LPW 2023
Location Privacy Workshop
July 7 // Delft, The Netherlands
2 years ago
Deadline: 28 Mar 2023, 11:59:59 am
Co-located with Euro S&P 2023

Inscrypt 2023
International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology
November 11–12 // HangZhou, China
2 years ago
Deadline: 15 Jul 2023, 3:59:59 pm

SAC 2022
Selected Areas in Cryptography
August 24–26 // Ontario, Canada
3 years ago
Deadline: 8 Jun 2022, 11:59:59 pm

Crypto 2023
International Cryptology Conference
August 19–24 // Santa Barbara, CA, USA
2 years ago
Deadline: 16 Feb 2023, 10:59:59 pm

Eurocrypt 2024
European Cryptology Conference
May 26–30 // Zurich, Switzerland
2 years ago
Deadline: 7 Oct 2023, 11:59:59 am

Asiacrypt 2023
International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security
December 4–8 // Guangzhou, China
2 years ago
Deadline: 26 May 2023, 11:59:59 am

AFT 2022
ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies
September 19–21 // Cambridge, MA, USA
3 years ago
Deadline: 6 May 2022, 11:59:59 am

TCC 2023
Theory of Cryptography Conference
November 29–December 2 // Taipei, Taiwan
2 years ago
Deadline: 2 Jun 2023, 11:59:59 am

PKC 2023
International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public Key Cryptography
May 7–10 // Atlanta, GA, USA
3 years ago
Deadline: 1 Nov 2022, 9:59:59 am

CT-RSA 2023
RSA Conference Cryptographers’ Track
April 24–27 // San Francisco, CA, USA
3 years ago
Deadline: 19 Oct 2022, 11:59:59 am

SECRYPT 2023
International Conference on Security and Cryptography
July 10–12 // Rome, Italy
2 years ago
Deadline: 24 Feb 2023, 11:59:59 am

AFRICACRYPT 2023
International Conference on Cryptography Africa
July 19–21 // Sousse, Tunisia
2 years ago
Deadline: 6 Mar 2023, 11:59:59 am

LATINCRYPT 2023
The 8th International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America
October 2–6 // Quito, Ecuador
2 years ago
Deadline: 10 Jun 2023, 11:59:59 am
Abstract registration June 2nd AoE (Firm).

FSE 2024
IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology
March 25–29 // Leuven, Belgium
24 years ago
Deadline: 23 Nov 2001, 11:59:59 am
Rolling deadline every quarter

RAID 2023
International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses
October 16–18 // Hong Kong, China
2 years ago
Deadline: 30 Mar 2023, 11:59:59 am

ACSAC 2023
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
Dec 4–8 // Austin, TX, USA
2 years ago
Deadline: 27 May 2023, 11:59:59 am
Abstract deadline on May 22nd

DSN 2023
The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
June 27–30 // Porto, Portugal
3 years ago
Deadline: 8 Dec 2022, 11:59:59 am
Abstract deadline on Dec 1st

ACNS 2024
International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security
March 5–8 // Abu Dhabi, UAE
2 years ago
Deadline: 18 Oct 2023, 11:59:59 am

DIMVA 2023
The Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment
July 12–14 // Hamburg, Germany
2 years ago
Deadline: 2 Feb 2023, 11:59:59 am

SACMAT 2023
ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies
June 7–9 // Trento, Italy
2 years ago
Deadline: 18 Feb 2023, 11:59:59 am

ARES 2023
International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security
August 29 – September 01 // Benevento, Italy
2 years ago
Deadline: 10 Mar 2023, 11:59:59 am

CODASPY 2023
ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy
April 24–26 // Charlotte, NC, USA
3 years ago
Deadline: 18 Oct 2022, 11:59:59 am

DBSec 2023
Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy
July 19 – 21 // Sophia Antipolis, France
2 years ago
Deadline: 8 Apr 2023, 11:59:59 am
Abstracts due March 31

The Web Conference 2024
International Conference on the World Wide Web
May 13 – May 17 // Singapore
2 years ago
Deadline: 13 Oct 2023, 11:59:59 am

SSR 2023
Security Standardisation Research Conference
April 22–23, 2023 // Lyon, France
2 years ago
Deadline: 6 Jan 2023, 11:59:59 am

SEED 2022
IEEE International Symposium on Secure and Private Execution Environment Design
September 26–27 // Online Event
3 years ago
Deadline: 11 Jun 2022, 11:59:59 am
Title and abstract deadline on June 3

ICICS 2023
25th International Conference on Information and Communications Security
November 18–20 // Tianjin, China
2 years ago
Deadline: 31 Mar 2023, 11:59:59 am

SaTML 2023
IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning
February 08 – 10 // Raleigh, NC, USA
3 years ago
Deadline: 23 Aug 2022, 11:59:59 am

NordSec 2022
The 27th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems
November 30 – December 2 // Reykjavik, Iceland
3 years ago
Deadline: 23 Aug 2022, 11:59:59 am

SecDev 2023
IEEE Secure Development Conference
October 18–20 // Atlanta, GA, USA
2 years ago
Deadline: 3 Jun 2023, 11:59:59 am

HOST 2023
IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust
May 1–4 // San Jose, CA, USA
2 years ago
Deadline: 24 Jan 2023, 11:59:59 am

AsianHOST 2023
Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium
December 13–15 // Tianjin, China
2 years ago
Deadline: 24 Jul 2023, 3:59:59 pm

WPES 2022
Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society
November 7 // Los Angeles, USA
3 years ago
Deadline: 2 Aug 2022, 10:59:59 am
In conjunction with the ACM CCS

NSPW 2023
New Security Paradigms Workshop
September 18 – 21 // Segovia, Spain
2 years ago
Deadline: 27 May 2023, 10:59:59 am

Cloud S&P 2023
Workshop on Cloud Security and Privacy
June 19–22 // Kyoto, Japan
2 years ago
Deadline: 21 Mar 2023, 11:59:59 am
Collocated with ACNS

SECPID 2022
Workshop on Security, Privacy, and Identity Management in the Cloud
August 23–26 // Vienna, Austria
3 years ago
Deadline: 15 May 2022, 11:59:59 pm
Extended deadline

CNS 2022
IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security
September 26–28 // Austin, TX, USA
3 years ago
Deadline: 10 Jun 2022, 11:59:59 pm
Extended deadline

SPACE 2022
International Conference on Security, Privacy and Applied Cryptographic Engineering
December 08–11 // Jaipur, India
3 years ago
Deadline: 2 Sep 2022, 11:59:59 am

HASP 2023
Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy
October 28 // Toronto, Canada
2 years ago
Deadline: 10 Aug 2023, 11:59:59 pm
Co-located with MICRO

PAVeTrust 2022
Program Analysis and Verification on Trusted Platforms
December 6 // Austin, TX, USA
3 years ago
Deadline: 29 Oct 2022, 11:59:59 am
Collocated with ACSAC

VehicleSec 2023
ISOC Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy
February 27 // San Diego, California, USA
2 years ago
Deadline: 11 Jan 2023, 11:59:59 am

SpaceSec 2023
Workshop on the Security of Space and Satellite Systems
February 27 // San Diego, California, USA
2 years ago
Deadline: 14 Jan 2023, 11:59:59 am
Co-located with NDSS Symposium

WOOT 2023
IEEE Workshop on Offensive Technologies
May 25 // San Francisco, California, USA
2 years ago
Deadline: 11 Feb 2023, 11:59:59 am

SafeThings 2023
IEEE/ACM Internet of Safe Things
May 9 // San Antonio, Texas, USA
2 years ago
Deadline: 5 Feb 2023, 11:59:59 am

SILM 2023
Security of Software/Hardware Interfaces
July 3 // Delft, The Netherlands
2 years ago
Deadline: 16 Mar 2023, 11:59:59 am
Co-located with Euro S&P 2023

CECC 2023
Central European Conference on Cryptology
July 3–6 // Linz, Austria
2 years ago
Deadline: 16 Mar 2023, 11:59:59 am

SecMT 2023
ACNS Workshop on Security in Mobile Technologies
June 19 – 22 // Kyoto, Japan
2 years ago
Deadline: 18 Mar 2023, 11:59:59 am

MAL-IoT 2023
Malicious Software and Hardware in Internet of Things
May 9 // Bologna, Italy
2 years ago
Deadline: 9 Mar 2023, 11:59:59 am
Co-located with ACM Computing Frontiers 2023

DevSecOpsRO 2023
DevSecOps Research and Opportunities
July 3 // Delft, The Netherlands
2 years ago
Deadline: 1 Apr 2023, 11:59:59 am

WASP 2023
Workshop on Attacks and Software Protection
September 28–29 // The Hague, The Netherlands
2 years ago
Deadline: 10 Jul 2023, 11:59:59 am
Co-located with ESORICS 2023

FUZZING 2023
International Fuzzing Workshop
July 17 // Seattle, Washington, USA
2 years ago
Deadline: 9 May 2023, 11:59:59 am
Co-located with ISSTA 2023

SECAI 2023
Workshop on Security and Artificial Intelligance
September 25–29 // The Hague, The Netherlands
2 years ago
Deadline: 17 Jul 2023, 11:59:59 am
Co-located with ESORICS 2023

ASHES 2023
Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security
November 30 // Copenhagen, Denmark
2 years ago
Deadline: 26 Jun 2023, 11:59:59 am

SCORED 2023
ACM Workshop on Software Supply Chain Offensive Research and Ecosystem Defenses
November 30 // Copenhagen, Denmark
2 years ago
Deadline: 1 Jul 2023, 11:59:59 am

CyberHunt 2023
Workshop on Cyber Threat Intelligence and Hunting
December 15–18 // Sorrento, Italy
2 years ago
Deadline: 2 Oct 2023, 11:59:59 am
Co-located with IEEE BigData 2023