Ms. Sidra Anwar | Online Monitoring | Best Researcher Award 

Ms. Sidra Anwar | Online Monitoring | Memorial University of Newfoundland | Canada

Ms. Sidra Anwar is a distinguished Ph.D. Student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, where she specializes in MedTech and Embedded Security. Her research centers on lightweight cryptography, privacy-preserving health data transmission, and energy-efficient security protocols for Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices. Ms. Sidra Anwar holds a Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi, and a Master’s degree in Project Management from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad. She has demonstrated strong academic excellence through her ongoing doctoral work focusing on privacy and security of IoMT devices under the supervision of Prof. Jonathan Anderson. Professionally, Ms. Sidra Anwar has held multiple research and teaching positions, including Embedded Security Researcher at MetaCrust Services Ltd., Innovation Metrics Coordinator at the Technology Transfer and Commercialization Office (TTCO), and Teaching Assistant at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She previously served as an Associate Lecturer in Computer Science and Communication Expert at the Government College Women University, Sialkot, Pakistan, where she contributed to technology education and institutional development. Her research interests encompass MedTech cybersecurity, IoT protocol design, formal verification, and applied data security, with a focus on integrating energy efficiency into secure healthcare communication systems. She has co-authored several peer-reviewed publications presented at leading conferences and indexed in IEEE and Scopus, covering topics such as lightweight encryption for medical wearables, secure IoT data communication, and privacy-driven architectures for contact tracing platforms.