Bienvenue/Welcome! 

I am an Associate Professor and Associate Director in the Department of Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering (CISE) - formerly known as the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE) - at Concordia University, Montréal. I also hold the Concordia University Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Security and Resilience (Tier 2). My research focuses on computational intelligence, security, and resilience, with applications in cyber-physical infrastructures, including smart grids, smart transportation, and smart cities. 

I received my Ph.D. from the University of Rhode Island (URI), USA, under the supervision of Prof. Haibo He (F-IEEE). I joined Concordia University in 2018 as an Assistant Professor and was granted early tenure and promoted to Associate Professor in 2022.  I was on sabbatical and a visiting researcher at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands, in 2025. I served as the Graduate Program Director (Thesis-based) of CIISE 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. 

With my students and collaborators, I have published over 140 peer-reviewed research articles. I was also the recipient of best paper awards at IEEE ICC and IEEE WCCI, the only Excellence in Doctoral Research Award (Class of 2018) from URI, the Best Reviewer Award from IEEE TSG, and the Best Readings from IEEE ComSoc, among others. 

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

According to Google Scholar, some of our papers are among the most-cited publications in different venues, including one paper ranked at #13/11,200 on IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE), one at #10/3,500+ on the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH), and one at #21 /3,700+ on the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS). One survey is the most-cited paper of IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theories & Applications since the journal's inauguration in 2016. Our research has also been featured extensively, including in the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, the IEEE Smart Grid Newsletter, and the IEEE Signal Processing Society eNewsletter, among others. 

Research Highlights

Our research lies at the intersection of applied computational intelligence, cyber-physical security, and smart resilient infrastructures. 

With my students and collaborators, we have published over 120 peer-reviewed publications in the following areas. 

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

• CEPD 9002 - Application of Emerging Cyber Technologies to Aerospace

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

• Conference Organization

  • Track Co-Chair - Emerging Technologies and Trends,
    2026 International Conference on Privacy, Security, and Trust (PST)

  • Local Organization Committee - TPC co-chair,
    2026 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM)

  • Area Chair,
    2026 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI)

  • Workshop Co-chair, ACM SIGEnergy Workshop on Cybersecurity and Privacy of Energy Systems (ACM EnergySP),
    2026 ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy)

  • Local Arrangement Chair,
    2026 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)

  • Workshop Co-chair, Agentic Energy Systems in Smart Grids: Theories, Technologies, and Applications,
    2025 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm)

  • Area Chair,
    2025 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)

  • 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)

  • Local Organization Committee - TPC co-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)