Howard Heys
Professor
B.E.Sc. (Western), PhD (Queen’s), P.Eng.
Subsequent to obtaining a B.E.Sc. in electrical engineering from
the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, I worked for
several years as a software designer at Bell Northern Research (now
Nortel). After six years in industry, I returned to university and
completed a PhD in electrical and computer engineering at Queen's
University in Kingston, Ontario.
I am currently a professor of electrical and computer engineering
at Memorial University of Newfoundland and chair of the Electrical
and Computer Engineering Discipline. My teaching activities include
courses in communications, computer networks, and algorithms, as
well as supervision of a number of final year undergraduate
projects.
The principle focus of my research is the design and analysis of
cryptographic algorithms or ciphers, as well as the application of
cryptography to communication networks. In addition to
cryptographic theory, much of the recent work has involved the
hardware implementation of ciphers and has been undertaken in
association with the Centre for Digital Hardware Applications
Research, which is one of the computer engineering research
laboratories at Memorial.
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