Professor Deepa Kundur is the Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity of Intelligent Critical Infrastructure and Chair of The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. A Toronto native, she received her B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees, all in Electrical and Computer Engineering, from the University of Toronto in 1993, 1995, and 1999, respectively.

Professor Kundur’s research focuses on the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure, with emphasis on energy and transportation systems, as well as data-centric approaches in psychiatry. Her work spans the modeling and analysis of cyber-physical attacks, advanced detection and inference methods using diverse and multimodal data sources, and cyber-physical strategies for infrastructure resilience. Her research applies methods drawn from deep learning, dynamical systems, applied cryptography, network theory, and optimization. She has authored over 275 publications and has received numerous paper awards.

Her professional service includes roles in national research funding and technical communities. She served as a member and Chair of the NSERC Discovery Grant Evaluation Group in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2013–2020), a primary source of federal research funding in Canada, and has contributed to advisory committees related to cybersecurity of critical infrastructure, as well as conference leadership and editorial roles at major IEEE and ACM venues. She is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, and a Senior Fellow of Massey College.

Professor Kundur has held multiple academic leadership roles in addition to her current appointment as ECE Chair, including Chair of the Division of Engineering Science (2017–2019), during which time she spearheaded the development of Canada’s first undergraduate engineering major in Machine Intelligence. As Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering (2019–present), she has guided a significant expansion of the professional graduate program, led the creation of the University of Toronto’s first official Certificate in Cybersecurity, overseen substantive changes to the undergraduate curriculum, and advanced new philanthropic, industry, and alumni engagement initiatives for the department. Over this period, the department has recorded the highest recruitment of women students in its history, with women comprising 42% of the first-year entering undergraduate class in the most recent academic year.