2023

Human Trafficking Enforcement in British Columbia: An In-Depth Analysis of Existing Strategies, and Recommendations for New Methods of Combatting Human Trafficking and Organized Crime

Grant Agency: Office of Crime Reduction & Gang Outreach (OCR-GO) - Policing and Security Branch.
Awarded: 2023
Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Frank
Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Barry Cartwright

Communities of Inquiry for Offenders: Learning Malware Development on Asynchronous Platforms

Grant Agency: SSHRC – through the Human-Centric Cybersecurity Partnership
Awarded: 2023
Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Frank
Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. David Decary-Hetu

Research Assistant: Noelle Warkentin

Peer Harm Reduction on the Darknet

Grant Agency: SSHRC – through the Human-Centric Cybersecurity Partnership
Awarded: 2023
Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Frank

The Dark Figure of Reporting and the Dark Figure of Recording: Measuring Ransomware Attacks on Businesses in Canada

Grant Agency: SSHRC – through the Human-Centric Cybersecurity Partnership
Awarded: 2023
Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Frank
Co-Principal Investigator: Noelle Warkentin; Cicilia Zhang

2021

The role of trust between buyer and vendor trust on dark web firearms and drug markets in British Columbia

Grant Agency: Office of Crime Reduction & Gang Outreach (OCR-GO) - Policing and Security Branch.
Awarded: 2021-2022
Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Frank

Deploying artificial intelligence to detect and respond to the use of digital technology by perpetrators of human trafficking

Grant Agency: Office of Crime Reduction & Gang Outreach (OCR-GO) - Policing and Security Branch.
Awarded: 2021-2022
Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Frank
Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Barry Cartwright

Understanding the Drug and Firearms on Dark Web Markets in British Columbia

Grant Agency: Office of Crime Reduction & Gang Outreach (OCR-GO) - Policing and Security Branch.
Awarded: 2021-2022
Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Frank

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Gender-based Violence and Related Essential Services

Grant Agency: Office of Crime Reduction & Gang Outreach (OCR-GO) - Policing and Security Branch.
Awarded: 2021-2022
Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Frank

Detecting Money Laundering An intelligent system for automatic detection of money laundering typologies from FINTRAC disclosures

Grant Agency: Office of Crime Reduction & Gang Outreach (OCR-GO) - Policing and Security Branch.
Awarded: 2021-2022
Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Frank
Co-Principal Investigator: Ashley Gonzales

2020

Deploying artificial intelligence to combat COVID-19 disinformation on social media

Grant Agency: Government of Canada’s Digital Citizen Contribution Program
Awarded: 2020-2021
Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Frank
Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Barry Cartwright

Risk and Resiliency: Evaluating Cyber Threats and Vulnerabilities to Canada's Critical Energy Infrastructure

Grant Agency: Cyber Security and Critical Energy Infrastructure Program.
Awarded: 2020-2021
Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Frank

2019

Impacts of Ransomware on BC Businesses

Grant Agency: SSHRC
Awarded: 2019-2020
Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Frank
Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Barry Cartwright

Fighting Disinformation Warfare with Artificial Intelligence - Using machine learning to identify and combat disinformation attacks

Grant Agency: Cyber Security Cooperation Program
Awarded: 2019-2019
Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Frank
Co-Principal Investigator: Barry Cartwright

Co-Principal Investigator: George Weir

2015

Dark WebCrawler

Grant Agency: Public Works and Government Services Canada
Awarded: 2015-2017
Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Frank
Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Garth Davies

Assessing the State of Knowledge: Connections Between Research on the Social Psychology of the Internet and Violent Extremism

Grant Agency: Public Safety Canada, Kanishka Project
Awarded: 2015
Principal Investigator: Dr. Garth Davies
Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Martin Bouchard

eLaundering: Analyzing Online Markets that Facilitate Money Laundering

Grant Agency: Public Safety Canada, Cyber Security Cooperation Program
Awarded: 2015-2016
Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Frank

2014

Identifying Canadian Targets in Hacker Forums

Grant Agency: Public Safety Canada, Cyber Security Cooperation Program
Awarded: 2014-2015
Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Frank

Location Extraction of Child Exploitation Networks

Grant Agency: Canadian Internet Registration Authority
Awarded: 2014
Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Frank

2013

Terrorist and Extremist Organizations' Use of the Internet for Recruitment

Grant Agency: Public Safety Canada, Kanishka Project
Awarded: 2013
Principal Investigator: Dr. Garth Davies

2012

Monitoring the Development of Online Child Exploitation Networks

Grant Agency: Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant Program
Awarded: 2012 (ongoing)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Martin Bouchard