Gordon Agnew

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.

Gordon Agnew
Academic background
Education	University of Waterloo (BASc, PhD)
Academic work
Discipline	Engineering
Sub-discipline	Encryption Data security
Institutions	University of Waterloo

Education

Agnew earned a B.A.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo in 1978 and a Ph.D. in 1982.

Career

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.

See also

• List of University of Waterloo people