About Myself

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Employment

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 (with early tenure promotion)
Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Education

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

• Advisor: Prof. Zhiyu Xiang

Short Bio:

I am currently an Associate Professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE) of Concordia University, Montréal, Canada. My research interests include machine intelligence, security, and resilience in smart and critical infrastructures. My research has been enabled and empowered by a group of intelligent and diligent researchers (meet them) at Concordia University. 

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. 

I work with colleagues at Concordia's Security Research Centre (SRC), the Applied AI Institute (AI2), the Next-Generation Cities Institute (NGCI), as well as partners like Ericsson's Global Artificial Intelligence Accelerator (GAIA) innovation hub (Montréal) and the Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Québec (IREQ) in multiple projects on the intelligence, security, and resilience for cyber-physical systems in smart critical infrastructures. 

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 reach out to me. 

You can find my Faculty Profile and my Explore Concordia pages.