Courses

I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never.

--Richard P. Feynman

Here is the list of courses that I am teaching or have taught.

• CO 456: Introduction to Game Theory
  • Fall 2025, Fall 2022, Fall 2016
• CO 485/685: Public-Key Cryptography
  • Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007
• CO 250: Introduction to Optimization
  • Fall 2023, Winter 2017
• Math 145: Algebra (Advanced Level)
  • Fall 2025, Fall 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2011
• CO 487: Applied Cryptography
  • Fall 2021, Winter 2016, Winter 2015, Winter 2013, Winter 2011
• QIC 891: Topics in Quantum-Safe Cryptography
  • Spring 2018, Spring 2016
• Math 239: Introduction to Combinatorics
  • Spring 2020, Fall 2016, Winter 2015, Fall 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007
• CO 789: Topics in Cryptography
  • Fall 2015, Fall 2011, Winter 2007 (http://math.uwaterloo.ca/~djao/co789.2007/)
• CO 331: Coding Theory
  • Winter 2013, Winter 2011, Winter 2007
• CO 690: Research Literature Studies
  • Winter 2007 (http://math.uwaterloo.ca/~djao/co690.2007/)