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Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science

Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE)

Faculty members

  • Amr Youssef
    • Professor , Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering
    Research areas: Applied cryptography, Network security, Cyber-physical systems security, Blockchain, Privacy

  • Suryadipta Majumdar
    • Associate Professor, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering
    • Graduate Program Director (MEng), Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering
    Research areas: Cloud Computing Security, Internet of Things (IoT) Security, Telecommunication Security
  • Mohammad Mannan
    • Professor, Concordia Institute for Information 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, Concordia Institute for Information 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, Concordia Institute for Information 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, Concordia Institute for Information 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.
  • Andrea Schiffauerova
    • Professor, Concordia Institute for Information 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
  • Chun Wang
    • Director and Professor, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering
    Research areas: Mobility is not just about moving people and goods—it is about enhancing the well-being of communities, minimizing environmental impact, and fostering a resilient ecosystem. At the Sustainable, Smart, and Socially-Oriented Mobility Systems Lab, Our interdisciplinary team develops intelligent and eco-friendly mobility systems solutions that prioritize social impact
  • Lingyu Wang
    • Affiliate Professor, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering
    Research areas: Cloud Security, Security Metrics, Network Security, Software Security, Privacy
  • Jun Yan
    • Associate Director & Co-op Director, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering
    • Affiliate Member, Applied AI Institute
    • Affiliate Member, Centre for Innovation in Construction and Infrastructure Engineering and Management (CICIEM)
    • Member, Security Research Centre
    • Associate Professor, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering
    • Concordia University Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Security and Resilience
    Research areas: Computational intelligence, cyber-physical security, agentic AI, energy resilience, smart infrastructures, big data analytics
  • Amr Youssef
    • Professor , Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering
    Research areas: Applied cryptography, Network security, Cyber-physical systems security, Blockchain, Privacy
  • Yong Zeng
    • Professor, Concordia Institute for Information 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

Name/Title E-mail/Phone Research interests
Hyame Alameddine
Affiliate Assistant Professor		 hyame.alemeddine@gmail.com
  • 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
Hamid Alinejad-Rokny
Affiliate Associate Professor
 		 h.alinejad@unsw.edu.au
+61 2 9385 1725
  • Health data analytics
  • Health informatics
  • Bio-informatics
  • Graph neural networks
  • Deep learning
  • Medical artificial intelligence
  • Machine learning in biology
  • Biological data mining
  • DNA computing
Prabir Bhattacharya
Affiliate Professor		 prabir.bhattacharya@gmail.com
  • Computer security
  • Data science
  • Medical imaging
  • Applied game theory
Elias Bouharb
Affiliate Associate Professor		 elias.bouharb@utsa.edu  
Ashkan Ebadi
Affiliate Assistant Professor		 ashkan.ebadi@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
438-356-7602
  • Intelligent decision support systems
  • Hybrid recommender systems
  • Graph analytics
  • Applied data science
  • Health informatics
  • Scientometrics
Mohamed Elhattab
Affiliate Assistant Professor		 mohelhattab@gmail.com
  • 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		 wentaofan@uic.edu.cn
  • Machine learning
  • Generative deep neural networks
  • Unsupervised clustering
  • Data mining
Benjamin Fung
Affiliate Professor
 		 ben.fung@mcgill.ca
  • Data mining    
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Security and privacy
  • Malware analysis
  • Authorship analysis
  • Foreign interference
Michel Guevremont
Affiliate Assistant Professor		 guevremont.michel@hydroquebec.com
  • 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		 contact@aimanhanna.com
  • Cyber-security
  • Software security
  • Software fingerprinting
  • Big data and container's security
  • Networking and data communications
Danial Jafarigiv
Affiliate Assistant Professor		 jafarigiv.danial2@hydroquebec.com
450-925-2008 ext. 8101329
  • 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		 abbas.javadtalab@concordia.ca
EV003.233
514-848-2424 ext. 4079
  • IoT / IoMT    
  • Fog computing
  • Multimedia communication
  • 360 Videostreaming
  • Virtual and augmented reality
  • Video gaming
  • Control/prediction
  • Multi-view/3D videocommunication
Fereshteh Mafakheri
Affiliate Assistant Professor		 fereshteh.mafakheri@enap.ca
514-849-3989 ext. 3982
  • Decision analytics
  • Bioenergy
  • BioCircular economy
  • Supply chain management
  • Technology management and innovation
  • Project management
Serguei A. Mokhov
Affiliate Assistant Professor		 serguei.mokhov@concordia.ca
EV007.155
514-848-2424 ext. 5179

 
Boubakr Nour
Affiliate Assistant Professor		 n.boubakr@gmail.com
  • Cybersecurity
  • Threat hunting
  • Proactive security
  • Threat intelligence
  • Threat analysis
Hadi Otok
Affiliate Associate Professor		 hadi.otrok@ku.ac.ae
  • 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		 pourzand@ciise.concordia.ca
  • Security
  • High availability
  • Distributed systems
  • Cluster security
  • Cluster computing
  • Parallel computing
Samir Sebbah
Affiliate Assistant Professor		 samir.sebbah@forces.gc.ca  
Sanaa Sharafeddine
Affiliate Associate Professor		 sanaa.sharafeddine@lau.edu.lb
  • Wirless networks
  • UAV-aided networks
  • Edge computing
  • Cooperative communication
Faridaddin Vahdatikhaki
Affiliate Assistant Professor		 f.vahdatikhaki@utwente.nl
  • 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		 owen.waygood@polymtl.ca
  • Application of psychological theories to travel behaviour
  • Traffic safety
  • Children's travel
  • Sustainable transport
Lin Yang
Affiliate Assistant Professor		 lin.yang@albertahealthservices.ca
403-698-8156
  • Epidemiologic study design
  • Energy balance and cancer
  • Biological mechanisms
  • Wearable devices
  • Mind-body exercise
  • Implementation science
Haibin Zhu
Affiliate Professor		 haibinz@nipissingu.ca  
 
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