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Associate Professor, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, 2022.06 - present
Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Assistant Professor, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, 2017.12 - 2022.05 (early tenure promotion)
Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Rhode Island, USA, 2017
Dissertation: "Smart Grid Security Against Massive Blackouts" (Link)
Advisor: Prof. Haibo He
M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, University of Rhode Island, USA, 2013
Thesis: "Modelling and Analysis on Smart Grid Against Smart Attacks" (Link)
Advisor: Prof. Haibo He
B.Eng., Information and Communication Engineering, Zhejiang University, China, 2011
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I am an Associate Professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE) at Concordia University, Montréal. I hold the Concordia University Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Security and Resilience (Tier 2). I joined Concordia in 2018 and received an early tenure promotion to Associate Professor in 2022. My research has been enabled and empowered by a group of intelligent and diligent researchers (meet them) at Concordia University.
I am a founding co-director of the Digital Twins Hub at Concordia and the NSF EuReCa Global Center with Santa Clara University (USA), and the founding chair of the IEEE PES AMPS-BDA Task Force on Big Data Analytics for Security and Resilience in Power Systems. I am also a founding member of the Security Research Centre (SRC) and the Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute (AI2) and an affiliate member of the Centre for Innovation in Construction and Infrastructure Engineering and Management (CICIEM) at Concordia.
With my students and collaborators, I have published over 100 peer-reviewed research articles in the areas of computational intelligence and cyber-physical security, with applications to critical infrastructures such as smart grids and smart cities. A complete list of my publications can be found here.
According to Google Scholar metrics, our papers are among the most-cited publications in the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE, #13 of 7,400+ publications, link), the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH, #10 of 2,100+ publications, link), and the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS, #21 of 2,000+ publications, link) since 2017. One survey has also been the most cited paper of IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theories & Applications since 2016. Our research has also been featured in the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), the IEEE Smart Grid Newsletter, and the IEEE Signal Processing Society eNewsletter, among others.
I received the Best Reviewers of IEEE TSG (2017), Best Student Paper Award at IEEE WCCI (2016), Best Paper Award at IEEE ICC (2014), and Best Readings of IEEE ComSoc (2013), among others. I was also the sole recipient of the Excellence in Doctoral Research award from the University of Rhode Island among the Ph.D. Class of 2018. Feel free to check the contents below or other pages above for more information.
I received my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with Excellence in Doctoral Research and my M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island, USA, both under the supervision of Prof. Haibo He. Before that, I received my B. Eng. in Information and Communication Engineering from Zhejiang University, China, in 2011.
Since 2018, I have received over $3 million CAD in research funding from agencies, including NSERC, CFI, FRQNT, FRQSC, and Mitacs. I also received best paper awards at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) and the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), among others.
You can learn more about my research here and my publications here.
If you are interested in joining the exciting research projects in my group, you can also check out the openings here and feel free to contact me.
You can find my Faculty Profile and my Explore Concordia pages.