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Faculty members

Meet the faculty in the Department and discover their research areas and contact information.

Full-time faculty

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    Manar Amayri
    Research areas: Machine learning, data science, explainable AI, human-in-the-loop AI, energy management systems, self-consumption, smart buildings, smart cities
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    Chadi Assi
    • Professor, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    • Tier II Concordia Research Chair
    Research areas: Wireless networks, Information security
  • Anjali Awasthi
    • Professor, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    Research areas: Sustainable Mobility, City Logistics, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Congestion, Connected Communities, Quality assurance in supply chain management, IT & Decision making, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Cybernetics
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    Ali Ayub
    • Assistant Professor, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    Research areas: Artificial Intelligence, Interactive Machine Learning, Continual Learning, Human-Robot Interaction
  • Ayda Basyouni
    • Senior Lecturer (ETA), Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
  • Abdessamad Ben Hamza
    • Professor, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    Research areas: Computer Vision; Artificial Intelligence; Geometric Deep Learning; Image Processing and Medical Imaging; Graph Signal Processing
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    Jamal Bentahar
    • Professor, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    Research areas: Intelligent agents and multi-agent systems, Agent-based software engineering, Multi-agent interaction, dialogue and argumentation, Formal methods, Validation and automatic verification, Non-classical logics, Temporal and spatial reasoning, Decision theory, Artificial intelligence and knowledge representation, Security in multi-agent system
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    Nizar Bouguila
    • Professor , Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    • Concordia University Research Chair in Applied Artificial Intelligence
    Research areas: Computer vision and pattern recognition, Machine learning and data mining, Image and signal processing, AI, Energy and Buildings
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    Jeremy Clark
    • Associate Professor, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    • NSERC/Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton/Catallaxy Industrial Research Chair in Blockchain Technologies
    Research areas: Anonymous Communication, Bitcoin, Cryptography & Data Security, Genomic Privacy, Multiparty Computation, SSL/TLS and HTTPS, Voting System Security
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    Mourad Debbabi
    • Dean, Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    Status: Hydro Quebec Hitachi Partnership Research Chair
    Research areas: Vulnerability Research, Critical Infrastructure Security, Threat Hunting, Smart Grid Security, Cyber Forensics, Network Security, Software Security, Malware Analysis
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    Rachida Dssouli
    • Professor, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    Research areas: Communication software engineering, Quality assurance for software, Service engineering, Conformance testing based on FSM, EFSM and timed automata, Requirement engineering based on scenarios, Multimedia applications and QoS
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    Honghao Fu
    • Assistant Professor, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    Research areas: Quantum computing, Device-independent quantum cryptography,Entanglement verfication, Testing of untrusted devices.
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    Carol Fung
    • Associate Professor, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    • Gina Cody Research Chair in Cybersecurity and the Internet of Things
    Research areas: Cybersecurity, Internet of Things, Network Management, User Privacy Protection, and Social Networks.
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    Mohsen Ghafouri
    • Associate Professor, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    Research areas: Smart grid security, Security of cyber-physical systems, Wide area monitoring, protection and control systems (WAMS and WAMPAC), Microgrids and smart distribution systems, Attack-resilient power systems, Control and modeling of smart grids
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    Roch Glitho
    • Professor and Canada Research Chair, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    Research areas: - Cloud computing and fog computing - Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networks (SDN) - Internet of Things, Content Delivery Networks and 5G Networks - Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D)
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    Amin Hammad
    • Professor, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    • Affiliate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: BIM, 4D simulation, and digital twins Automation and robotics in construction (Construction 4.0) Sustainable infrastructure management systems Construction management (health and safety, productivity, claim management, etc.) Applied AI, computer vision, and knowledge engineering Optimizing building energy performance Mixed reality
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    Walter Lucia
    • Associate Professor, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    Research areas: Secure and resilient control of cyber-physical systems, model predictive control strategies for autonomous vehicles
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    Suryadipta Majumdar
    • Associate Professor, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    • Graduate Program Director (MEng), Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    Research areas: Cloud Computing Security, Internet of Things (IoT) Security, Telecommunication Security
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    Mohammad Mannan
    • Professor, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    Research areas: Systems security, Privacy, Android/Mobile security, ML/AI, Large-scale Measurements, Authentication, Trusted computing, OS/Hypervisor security, Phishing
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    Arash Mohammadi
    • Associate Professor, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    Research areas: Signal Processing; Machine Learning; Medical Image Radiomics; Biological Signal/Image Processing; Information Fusion; Internet-of Things (IoT); Mobile Edge Caching; State Estimation, Localization, & Tracking, and; Cyber-physical Systems.
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    Farnoosh Naderkhani
    • Associate Professor, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    Research areas: Maintenance management; Quality Control; High-dimensional data analysis for systems monitoring; Modern Manufacturing Systems; Diagnostics and prognostics, and; Statistical and machine learning for complex-structured streaming data.
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    Zachary Patterson
    • Professor, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    Research areas: Emerging technologies in transport-related data collection, computational geospatial data processing, data analysis and inference with statistical and artificial intelligence techniques, and discrete choice experiments.
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    Andrea Schiffauerova
    • Professor, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    • Graduate Program Director (MASc and PhD)
    Research areas: Innovation ecosystems, Data analytics, Data mining, Natural language processing, Machine learning, Analysis of complex networks, Scientometrics, Management of science and technology
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    Chun Wang
    • Chair and Professor, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    Research areas: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, AI Agent Systems Sustainable, Smart, and Socially-Oriented Mobility Systems
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    Lingyu Wang
    • Affiliate Professor, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    Research areas: Cloud Security, Security Metrics, Network Security, Software Security, Privacy
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    Jun Yan
    • Concordia University Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Security and Resilience
    • Associate Director & Co-op Director, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    • Associate Professor, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    • Member, Security Research Centre
    • Co-Director, Digital Twins Hub
    • Affiliate Member, Applied AI Institute
    Research areas: Artificial intelligence; security; trustworthiness; resilience; agentic/autonomous systems; smart grids; smart infrastructures; cyber-physical systems; big data & analytics; operational technologies;
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    Amr Youssef
    • Professor , Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    Research areas: Applied cryptography, Network security, Cyber-physical systems security, Blockchain, Privacy
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    Yong Zeng
    • Professor, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    Status: On sabbatical until June. 31, 2026
    Research areas: Innovative and creative design, Theory and methodology, Cognitive experiments, Non-parametric Clustering, Prompt Engineering, NLP

Part-time faculty

Affiliate faculty

Hyame Alameddine
  • Affiliate Assistant Professor
Research areas: 5G/6G Networks, Open-radio access network, Security, Network slicing, Machine learning and artificial intelligence, Network function virtualization, Cloud and edge computing, Network resources management
Prabir Bhattacharya
  • Affiliate Professor
Research areas: Computer security, Data science, Medical imaging, Applied game theory
Ashkan Ebadi
  • Affiliate Associate Professor
Research areas: Artificial intelligence, Computer vision, AI-powered decision support systems, Health informatics, Multimodal learning, Explainable AI, Scientometrics
Dariush Ebrahimi
  • Affiliate Assistant Professor
Research areas: Artificial intelligence, Computer vision, AI-powered decision support systems, Health informatics, Multimodal learning, Explainable AI, Scientometrics
Mohamed Elhattab
  • Affiliate Assistant Professor
Research areas: Next generation multiple access (C-NOMA/NOMA, RSMA/C-RSMA), Moveable antenna, Integrated sensing and communications, Artificial intelligence for wireless communications, Next-generation metasurfaces, Non-terrestrial networks
Wentao Fan
  • Affiliate Associate Professor
Research areas: Machine learning, Generative deep neural networks, Unsupervised clustering, Data mining
Bilal Farooq
  • Affiliate Associate Professor
Research areas: On demand, automated, and multimodal urban mobility, Hybrid quantum-classic optimization methods for transportation systems, Hybrid econometric-deep learning models for travel behaviour, Eztended reality for travel behaviour models
Benjamin Fung
  • Affiliate Professor
Research areas: Data mining, Artificial intelligence, Security and privacy, Malware analysis, Authorship analysis, Foreign interference
Michel Guevremont
  • Affiliate Assistant Professor
Research areas: 4D simulation, Virtual construction management, Digital twins, Building information modeling (BIM), Legal affairs and dispute resolution in engineering and construction, Construction 4.0, Automation in construction
Aiman Hanna
  • Affiliate Assistant Professor
Research areas: Cyber-security, Software security, Software fingerprinting, Big data and container's security, Networking and data communications
Danial Jafarigiv
  • Affiliate Assistant Professor
Research areas: Cybersecurity analysis in smart grid, Integration of artificial intelligence for detection and mitigation in cybersecurity, Threat modeling and cybersecurity risk evaluation for the electric vehicle ecosystem, Modeling and simulation of cyberphysical systems, Co-simulation and co-emulation platforms (both offline and real-time)
Abbas Javadtalab
  • Affiliate Assistant Professor
Research areas: IoT / IoMT, Fog computing, Multimedia communication, 360 Videostreaming, Virtual and augmented reality, Video gaming, Control/prediction, Multi-view/3D videocommunication
Marthe Kassouf
  • Affiliate Professor
Research areas: Critical infrastructure cybersecurity, Telecommunication networks, Time synchronization systems, Power grid automation
Xiaoming Li
  • Affiliate Assistant Professor
Research areas: Data-driven optimization and operations research, AI/ML for transportation, logistics, and supply chain systems, Simulation-based optimization and agent-based modeling, Digital twins for smart mobility and logistics, Sustainable and carbon-aware transportation systems
Xueping Li
  • Affiliate Professor
Research areas: Complex systems modeling, simulation and optimization, Health information technology and systems engineering for healthcare, Data analytics and machine learning, Cyber-physical systems and digital twins, Agent-based modeling, Agentic AI and AI-enabled decision support
Fereshteh Mafakheri
  • Affiliate Assistant Professor
Research areas: Decision analytics, Bioenergy, BioCircular economy, Supply chain management, Technology management and innovation, Project management
Serguei A. Mokhov
  • Affiliate Assistant Professor
Carla Mouradian
  • Affiliate Assistant Professor
Research areas: 5G/6G Mobile networks, Distributed cloud and edge computing, Autonomous networks and network automation, AI/ML for networks and services, Cloud-native systems and orchestration, Edge AI and distributed intelligence
Boubakr Nour
  • Affiliate Assistant Professor
Research areas: Cybersecurity, Threat hunting, Proactive security, Threat intelligence, Threat analysis
Hadi Otok
  • Affiliate Associate Professor
Research areas: Blockchain and game theory, Cloud and fog computing: game theoretal models, Reinforcement learning and federated learning, Internet of vehicles, VANET and MANET, Services management: cloud/edge/fog and crowd sensing/sourcing, Network and computer security
Makan Pourzandi
  • Affiliate Associate Professor
Research areas: Security, High availability, Distributed systems, Cluster security, Cluster computing, Parallel computing
Samir Sebbah
  • Affiliate Assistant Professor
Sanaa Sharafeddine
  • Affiliate Associate Professor
Research areas: Wirless networks, UAV-aided networks, Edge computing, Cooperative communication
Faridaddin Vahdatikhaki
  • Affiliate Assistant Professor
Research areas: Real-time decision support system for construction equipment, Virtual reality for construction training and education, Building information modeling and digital twin for infrastructure, Smart and sustainable infrastructures and cities
Edward Owen Waygood
  • Affiliate Professor
Research areas: Application of psychological theories to travel behaviour, Traffic safety, Children's travel, Sustainable transport
Lin Yang
  • Affiliate Assistant Professor
Research areas: Epidemiologic study design, Energy balance and cancer, Biological mechanisms, Wearable devices, Mind-body exercise, Implementation science
Haibin Zhu
  • Affiliate Professor
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