Megan Dewar

Megan Dewar is the Head of the Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing (TIMC), a Canadian Government research institute whose mission is to deliver fundamental research results in mathematics and computer science that impact the most important scientific challenges facing the security and intelligence community. Focus areas of TIMC include cryptography and data science.  Megan joined TIMC as a researcher at the time of its inception a decade ago, and took on the role of Head two years ago. Megan completed her PhD in Discrete Mathematics at Carleton University in 2010. She is a co-author of Ordering Block Designs:  Gray codes, universal cycles and configuration orderings, a book based on her thesis.  Her previous masters and undergraduate studies -- completed at Dalhousie University -- focused on graph theory and game theory.