Catherine Gebotys

Catherine H. Gebotys (born 1960) is a Canadian computer engineer specializing in the security of embedded systems and in cryptographic algorithms more generally. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Waterloo.

Gebotys graduated from the University of Toronto in 1982 with a bachelor's degree in engineering science, and earned a master's degree in electrical engineering there in 1984. She completed her Ph.D. in 1991 at the University of Waterloo. Her dissertation, A Global Optimization Approach to Architectural Synthesis of VLSI Digital Synchronous Systems with Analog and Asynchronous Interfaces, was supervised by Mohamed Elmasry.

Gebotys is the author of the book Security in Embedded Devices (Springer, 2010). With Elmasry, she is the coauthor of Optimal VLSI Architectural Synthesis: Area, Performance and Testability (Kluwer, 1992).