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I am a faculty member at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE) at Concordia University, Montréal. I am the Concordia University Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Security and Resilience (Tier 2) and the Associate Director and Co-op Director of CIISE.

Besides my regular duties, I am the founding co-director of the Digital Twins Hub at Concordia as well as the NSF EuReCa Global Center with Santa Clara University (USA). I am also a founding member of the Security Research Centre (SRC) and the Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute (AI2). I also founded and chaired the IEEE PES AMPS-BDA Task Force on Big Data Analytics for Security and Resilience of Power Systems. 

I joined Concordia in 2018 as an Assistant Professor and received an early tenure promotion to Associate Professor in 2022. I served as the Graduate Program Director of CIISE for thesis-based students in 2023-24 and held the Concordia-MCN Co-chaire de recherche sur la cybersécurité et la résilience des réseaux de l’administration publique (Research Co-Chair in Cybersecurity and Resilience in Public Administration Networks) in 2023-25. During 2025, I was on sabbatical as a visiting researcher at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands. 

With my students and collaborators, I have published over 100 peer-reviewed research articles in computational intelligence, security, and resilience, with applications to cyber-physical infrastructures such as smart grids, smart transportation, and smart cities. 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 is the most cited paper of IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theories & Applications since 2016. Our research has been featured in the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, the IEEE Smart Grid Newsletter, and the IEEE Signal Processing Society eNewsletter, among others. 

I received my Ph.D. from the University of Rhode Island (USA) under the supervision of Prof. Haibo He. I have received best paper awards at IEEE ICC and IEEE WCCI, the Excellence in Doctoral Research Award (Class of 2018) from URI, Best Reviewers award from IEEE TSG, and Best Readings from IEEE ComSoc, among others. 

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Research Highlights

My research lies in the intersection of cyber-physical security, applied machine intelligence, and smart resilient infrastructures. I have authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications in the area, and a complete list of my research publications can be found here.

Teaching

I offer two elective courses for graduate students on topics of smart grids and industrial control system security and machine learning in information system security. I also teach some undergraduate courses, mostly during the summer.

• INSE 6640 - Smart Grids and Control System Security

• INSE 6630 - Recent Developments in Information Systems Security

• COEN 231 - Introduction to Discrete Mathematics

Services

I served on several journal editorial boards and conference organizing committees, including but not limited to:

• Associate Editor

  • Complex and Intelligent Systems (CAIS)

  • Energy Conversion and Economics (ECE)

• Guest Editor

  • "Situation Awareness for Smart Distribution Systems," Energies

  • "Human-centric Social Big Data Privacy, Security and Frontier computing," Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS)

  • "Distributed Learning, Optimization, and Control Methods for Future Power Grids," Frontiers in Energy Research

• Organization Committee Member

  • Local arrangement chair, 2024 IEEE International Conference On The Design Of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN)

  • Local organization chair, 2023 Cyber Security in Networking Conference (CSNet)

  • Local organization co-chair, 2021 International Conference on Computational Data and Social Networks (CSoNet)

  • Technical program chair, 2020 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM)

  • Local coordinator, 2019 ACM/IEEE Cyber-Physical System and Internet-of-Things (CPS-IoT) Week

  • Local arrangement chair, 2018 International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security (FPS)