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Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science

Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering (CISE)

The proposed name change from the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering to the Department of Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering is pending approval by the Board of Governors.

Researchers by expertise

As an interdisciplinary fundamental research and R&D learning department, CISE houses state-of-the-art research in innovative applications of information systems.

Researchers by topic

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Chun Wang
    • Director and Professor, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    Research areas: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, AI Agent Systems Sustainable, Smart, and Socially-Oriented Mobility Systems
  • 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

  • Manar Amayri
    Research areas: Machine learning, data science, explainable AI, human-in-the-loop AI, energy management systems, self-consumption, smart buildings, smart cities
  • Ali Ayub
    • Assistant Professor, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    Research areas: Artificial Intelligence, Interactive Machine Learning, Continual Learning, Human-Robot Interaction
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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, Statistical process control, 3D graphics and games
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Chun Wang
    • Director and Professor, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    Research areas: Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, AI Agent Systems Sustainable, Smart, and Socially-Oriented Mobility Systems
  • 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
    • Affiliate Member, Applied AI Institute
    Research areas: Computational intelligence, cyber-physical security, energy resilience, smart infrastructures, agentic/autonomous systems, big data analytics, operational technologies, industrial control systems
  • 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

  • Chadi Assi
    • Professor, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    • Tier II Concordia Research Chair
    Research areas: Wireless networks, Information security
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Lingyu Wang
    • Affiliate Professor, Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    Research areas: Cloud Security, Security Metrics, Network Security, Software Security, Privacy
  • 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
    • Affiliate Member, Applied AI Institute
    Research areas: Computational intelligence, cyber-physical security, energy resilience, smart infrastructures, agentic/autonomous systems, big data analytics, operational technologies, industrial control systems
  • Amr Youssef
    • Professor , Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
    Research areas: Applied cryptography, Network security, Cyber-physical systems security, Blockchain, Privacy
 
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