2019 Awards
Faculty of Arts
March 2019
Traci-Lee Christianson, Conference Presentation “The perception of linguistic bias in news media: Can you tell if your news is biased?”, $1000.
Supervisor: Dr. Katherine Anne Collins.
Faculty of Science
March 2019
Megan Bieraugle, Conference Presentation “An abundance survey of Myotis lucifugus (little brown bat) emergence from day roosts near Wabamun Lake”, $181.
Supervisor: Dr. Mariola Janowicz.
Maxwell Kryzanoski, Conference Presentation “Determining the effect of sublethal (4-chloro-2-methylphenoxy)acetic acid (MCPA) levels in water on growth rate and crop yield of conventional canola”, $146.
Supervisor: Dr. Xin Chen.
Donovan Makus, Project “The Effects of Ivermectin Treated Cattle on Aquatic Communities”, $1000.
Supervisor: Dr. Mariola Janowicz.
Kaylee Morris, , Project “Research Internship Genetics of Prokaryotes”, $1000.
Supervisor: Dr. Mariola Janowicz.
Mienna Starosielski, Project “Severity of infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis in correlation to the environment and conjunctiva eyelid pigment in Hereford calves”, $123
Supervisor: Dr. Mariola Janowicz.
Faculty of Management
March 2019
Uttkarsh Goel, Conference Presentation “Using healthcare authority and patient blockchains to develop a tamperproof record tracking system”, $2000.
Supervisor: Ron Ruhl, MBA, CISSP.
Vinayak Kohli, Conference Presentation “Using Binary Class Anomaly Detection Techniques to Protect IoT Devices”, $545.
Supervisor: Ron Ruhl, MBA, CISSP.
2018 Awards
Faculty of Arts
May 2018
Tia Galarneau, Conference Presentation: “Body Language and Tone in Relation to Memory Recall”, $610
Student Research Supervisor: Dr. Bryan Rooney
Elizabeth Kuenzel, Conference Presentation: “Body Language and Tone in Relation to Memory Recall”, $560
Student Research Supervisor: Dr. Bryan Rooney
February 2018
Bronte Diduck, Project: “Effects of Sex and Sport Participation”, $2000
Student Research Supervisor: Dr. Brian Rooney
Brett Fawcett, Conference Presentation: “A Business Ethic of Joy”, $900
Student Research Supervisor: Dr. John Maxfield
Bethany McMillan, Conference Presentation: “Unprecedented Opportunity for Adolescent Girls in the Third Reich: The Bund Deutscher Mäde”, $1003
Student Research Supervisor: Dr. Tolly Bradford
Madison Perkins, Conference Presentation: “Trends of Blame in the Minds of Korean ‘Comfort Women'”, $891
Student Research Supervisor: Dr Tolly Bradford
Faculty of Management
September 2018
Shikhar Bhatnagar, Conference Presentation: “Verifying Data Security Requirements of Android Mobile Banking Application”, $1015
Student Research Supervisor: Dr Yasir Malik
July 2018
Pooja Prasad, Conference Presentation: “Information Security Considerations for Wireless Infusion Pumps”, $1190
Student Research Supervisor: Dr. Fehmi Jaafar
Caesar Clemente, Conference Presentation: “Comparative Analysis of Security Bug Prediction using Deep Learning vs Traditional Machine Learning”, $1204
Student Research Supervisor: Dr. Fehmi Jaafar
May 2018
Davison Zvabva,Conference Presentation: “Evaluation of Industrial Firewall Performance Issues in Automation Control Networks”, $1914
Student Research Supervisor: Dr. Pavol Zavarsky
Seyedmohammad Mirheydari, Conference Presentation: “Single Packet Authorization in a Multi-Layered Security Architecture”, $1914
Student Research Supervisor: Dr. Pavol Zavarsky
John Luswata, Conference Presentation: “Analysis of Scada Security Using Penetration Testing”, $1914
Student Research Supervisor: Dr. Pavol Zavarsky
Jitto Joseph, Conference Presentation: “Reducing Traffic Congestion for Machine to Machine Type Communication”, $2379
Student Research Supervisor: Dr. Ron Ruhl
Hajredin Daku, Conference Presentation: “Behavior-based classification and identification of ransomware variants”, $2470
Student Research Supervisor: Dr. Pavol Zavarsky
March 2018
Sarvjot Kaur Kang, Conference Presentation: “An Implementation of Hierarchical Intrusion Detection Systems Using Snort and Federated Databases”, $2364
Student Research Supervisor: Dr Dale Lindskog
Jasmeen Kaur Babrah, Conference Presentation: “Experimental analysis of behaviour of Cryto-Ransomware”, $1010
Student Research Supervisor: Dr Fehmi Jaafar
February 2018
Jasmeen Boprai, Conference Presentation: “A Mechanism to Facilitate Counter Field Reset in Enhanced Watchdog Mechanism”, $2500
Student Research Supervisor: Dr Dale Lindskog
Jatesh Singh Jagraj, Conference Presentation: “Study of the Impact of Paranoia Levels on Effectiveness of ModSecurity Firewall CRS 3.0”, $815
Student Research Supervisor: Dr Pavol Zavarsky
Mayank Jaiswal, Conference Presentation: “Android Gaming Malware Detection Using System Call Behaviour Analysis”, $2500
Student Research Supervisor: Dr Yasir Malik
Damilola Murtala, Conference Presentation: “Simulating Link Aggregation in Private Virtual LAN using OpenFlow SDN in Cloud Environment.”, $2200
Student Research Supervisor: Dr Yasir Malik
Amanjot Sandhu, Conference Presentation: “The risk of re-identification of healthcare data in data matching in Alberta”, $2500
Student Research Supervisor: Prof Ron Ruhl
January 2018
Tasha-Gaye Braham, Conference Presentation: “Reference Security Architecture for Body Area Network for Health Applications”, $650
Student Research Supervisor: Dr Sergey Butakov
Majinder Singh, Conference Presentation: “Analyzing Overhead from Security and Administrative Functions in Virtual Environments”, $550
Student Research Supervisor: Dr Sergey Butakov
Faculty of Science
November 2018
Maxwell Kryzanowski, Project: “Determining the effect of sublethal (4-chloro-2-methylphenoxy)acetic acid (MCPA) levels in water on growth rate and crop yield of conventional canola”, $943
Student Research Supervisor: Dr. Xin Chen
Liam McKenna, Project: “The inhibitory effects of Acetaminophen on human COX 1,2 enzymes at varying body extremes (32C, 37C, 42C)”, $970
Student Research Supervisor: Dr. John Walsh
Comfort Sorinolu, Project: “Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) concentration, in Westslope Cutthroat Troat muscle tissue”, $970
Student Research Supervisor: Dr Mariola Janowicz and Dr. Praise Nyade
July 2018
Megan Bieraugle, Project: “An abundance survey of Myotis lucifugus (little brown bat) emergence from day roosts near Wabamun Lake”, $950
Student Research Supervisor: Dr Mariola Janowicz
May 2018
Jaclyn Repchuk, Conference Presentation: “Functionalization of Silicon Quantum Dots with Ferrocene Derivatives”, $400
Student Research Supervisor: Dr. John Washington
Dallas McIntosh, Conference Presentation: “Mathematical Look at Poker”, $596
Student Research Supervisor: Dr. Rossitza Marinova
April 2018
Brynne Gourlay, Conference Presentation: “Identification of conserved proteins in Nocardia brasiliensis and other actinomycetoma causative agents using a bioinformatic approach”, $460
Student Supervisor: Dr. Carla Salvado
February 2018
Charity Blaney, Project: “Vertibrate Habitat Selection”, $1080
Student Research Supervisor: Dr Mariola Janowicz
Juwayriya Abdullah: Conference Presentation: “Effect of Ataluren on MyoVIIA nonsense mutation”, $799
Student Research Supervisor: Dr Mariola Janowicz
Khadija Abdullah, Conference Presentation: “Blue LED Irradiation of MDA-MB-231 Cells”, $573
Student Research Supervisor: Dr Deborah Hemmerling
2017 Awards
Congratulations to our student researchers who were awarded research grants for 2017. Those awarded are:
Faculty of Arts
Adrianna Blitterswyk, Project: Canadian Lutheran World Relief Global Encounter, $2000,
Student Supervisor: Steven Muir
Aliza Dadani, Conference presentation: “Community Research Developer”, $1,985
Student Supervisor: Dr. Wendy Pullin
Brett Fawcett, Conference presentation: “Ecumenical Dialogue between Catholic and Protestant Theologians”, $800
Student Supervisor: Dr. John Maxfield
Nadine Uwimana, Project: Challenges experienced by African students, especially those who come from countries with conflict, $2,000
Student Supervisor: Dr. Neil Querengesser
Faculty of Education
Hannuo Wu, Conference Presentation: “Unite Based Teaching Pedagogy”, $1000
Student Research Supervisor: Dr Edgar Schmidt
Faculty of Management
Dilpreet Singh, Conference Presentation “Attack tree for modelling unauthorized transactions at POS terminals“, $2500
Student Supervisor: Professor Ron Ruhl
Khaled Jewel, Project: Web Hosting Provider Role In Web Applications Security, $642,
Student Supervisor: Sergey Butakov
Babusaheb Khadiranaikar, Conference presentation: “Interprocess Communication and Android Security: Hybrid analysis to detect vulnerabilities”, $1800
Student Supervisor: Dr. Pavol Zavarsky
Harjot Kaur, Conference presentation: “Unauthorized Data Leakage”, $2,495.77
Student Supervisor: Dr. Pavol Zavarsky
Manpreet Kaur, Conference presentation: “Intrusion Response Systems”, $1,441
Student Supervisor: Dr. Dale Lindskog
Babusaheb Khadiranaikar, Project: Inter-process Communication in Android, $873
Student Supervisor: Dr. Dale Lindskog
Ruchi Mishra, Conference presentation: “Behavioural study of Malwares Impacting Financial Institutions”, $1850
Student Supervisor: Dr. Sergey Butakov
Rukayat O.Ibrahim, Conference presentation: “Mechanism for Detecting Selfish Nodes in a Mobile Ad hoc Network”, $1,441
Student Supervisor: Dr. Dale Lindskog
Julia Onchieku, Conference presentation: “COBIT 5 Based Audit Plan for CRM Systems”, $2,067
Student Supervisor: Dr. Sergey Butakov
Harshkumar Patel, Project: Temperature Management Systems, $836,
Student Supervisor: Dr. Pavol Zavarsky
Hasan Turaev, Conference presentation: “Prevention of Ransomware Execution in Enterprise Environment”, $1,107
Student Supervisors:Dr. Pavol Zavarsky, Dr. Bobby Swar
Faculty of Science
Ryleigh-Raye Wolf, Project: “Effect of Wildfires on Mobilization of Heavy Metals in Northern Alberta’s Peatland Boreal Forest“, $850
Student Research Supervisor: Dr. Xin Chen, Dr. Patrick Kamau, and Dr. Rhett Clark
Owen Woycenko, Project: “Evaluating a Computational Model of RNA Thermosensor Folding Using GFP Reporter System In Vivo”, $2500
Student Research Supervisor: Dr Carla Salvado
Sydney Hucalak, Project: Effect of 6 degree temperature increase on submerged macrophytes biomass in a Northern Alberta lake, $408.45
Student Supervisor: Dr. Mariola Janowicz
Juwayriya Abdullahi, Project: Effect of Ataluren on MyoVIIA nonsense mutation, $538.84
Student Supervisor: Dr. Mariola Janowicz