Short Bio

Komminist is a researcher and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of Computing, Queen’s University, Canada. Prior to joining the Queen’s Reliable Software Technology (QRST) group, he was a tenure-track researcher at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento Italy (2011 - 2012). He was also a postdoctoral researcher at FBK (2010 - 2011). He has visited the Security Laboratory (Seclab) at the University of California, Santa Barbara CA USA.

He completed his PhD in the Information Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Trento, Italy. He also received a BSc degree in Computer Science from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia in 2003 and a Master's of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India in 2006.

His research interests include Software Engineering, Security, Cloud Computing and Electronic Voting Systems. He is also interested in the application of ICT for Good (ICT4G), with a particular emphasis in low-ICT penetration territories.

Contact

School of Computing, Queen's University
25 Union Street
Kingston, ON Canada K7L 3N6
P: (613) 533-2948

Komminist Weldemariam
weldemar@cs.queensu.ca

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