The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSE) are partnering to fund Research Communities to conduct unclassified research on cutting-edge technologies in areas of strategic importance to CSE and the Government of Canada. A Research Community is defined as a group of researchers – and their research personnel (i.e., students, post-doctoral fellows, and research professionals) – from multiple Canadian universities working in related domains and sharing NSERC‑CSE funds awarded to their project(s). The focus of this funding call is on exploratory analysis for unstructured data. CSE is the sole partner organization; no additional partner organizations will be accepted.
CSE is Canada’s foreign signals intelligence agency and technical authority for cyber security and information assurance. CSE is home to the Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing (TIMC), where researchers work with government, academia, and industry to tackle scientific challenges related to CSE’s mission. TIMC’s data science team is focused on the underlying mathematical theory of exploratory data analysis and the implementation of that theory in scalable, broadly applicable tools. In support of CSE’s mandate, these tools support the analysis of cyber defence and signals intelligence data.
