News

In 2025, I was awarded the Canadian Mathematical Society's Graham Wright Award for Distinguished Service.  I am honoured to join the ranks of so many distinguished awardees, including particularly my colleagues Joseph Khoury (2017) and Graham Wright (2007) himself, for whom the award was renamed!

Research

Broadly defined, my main area of research is algebra. Within this, I specialize in: representation theory, p-adic groups and cryptography.

At the University of Ottawa, I am part of the very large and active Algebra and Lie Theory Research Group, within the Ottawa-Carleton Institute of Mathematics, as well as QUASAR, an interdisciplinary group focused on QUAntum Security using methods from Algebra and Representation theory.

Students

I enjoy supervising students in research projects at all levels, from undergraduate to doctorate; for more details, see Students.

Academic Service

I gladly participate in outreach activities of all kinds, and serve on several committees of the Department and the University, as well as on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Mathematical Society.

In 2019, I was named a Fellow of the Canadian Mathematical Society.