Philip W. L. Fong <pwlfong AT ucalgary DOT ca>
I am actively recruiting multiple graduate students at both the PhD and Master's levels. Graduate students under my supervision will be fully funded, via Teaching and Research Assistantships. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you are interested. The following contains some information that you may find useful.
My research interests span access control, language-based security, and protection technologies for social computing. A list of my recent publications can be found here. A description of some of my recent research projects can be found here. Recently my students and I have been having a lot of fun working with social network systems such as Facebook, mobile phone platforms such as Android, and electronic health record systems such as OpenMRS.
The minimum qualification is to satisfy the admission requirements of the Department of Computer Science. For an MSc applicant, the departmental admission requirements include (a) a GPA of 3.3 in the last 2 years of undergrad program, and (b) evidence of English proficiency (e.g., written TOEFL 600, or internet-based TOEFL 100, or IELTS 7.5, etc) for international applicants. For a PhD applicant, the departmental admission requirements involve all of the requirements for an MSc applicant, plus a GPA of 3.3 in a thesis-based Master's program (excluding the grade of any thesis component).
The above requirements are not negotiable. The department takes the above very seriously, and potential supervisors (e.g., me) do not have the power to override them.
If your GPA satisfies the admission requirements, but your English test scores are slightly lower than the requirements, then please retake your TOEFL or IELTS exams. I have seen examples of successful applicants doing exactly this.
The information above is provided only for reference. The official Graduate Calendar is the final authority.
If you satisfy the departmental admission requirements, I would like to encourage you to contact me by email (pwlfong AT ucalgary DOT ca). Please kindly provide the following information in your email:
Please allow me a few days to process your email.
If you satisfy the departmental admission requirements, you will normally be provided with Teaching Assistantship. I will usually be able to offer additional support. I anticipate that my graduate students are fully funded.
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