I am always looking for highly motivated students in the following areas:
Computational intelligence and autonomy, including reinforcement learning, generative models, adversarial learning, agentic mechanisms, digital twinning, causal learning, and other related algorithms.
Cyber-physical security and resilience, including industrial control system security, operational technology security, situational awareness, threat hunting, resilient control, security automation, and other related themes.
Smart critical infrastructures, including smart grids, smart transportation, smart cities, and other applications concerning intelligence, security, and resilience.
Other areas of interest include cross-domain co-design, digital identities, cyber literacy, and other future-looking topics.
Our group offers highly competitive research assistantships and scholarships to graduate students as well as undergraduate research interns. There are also many co-op and R&D internship opportunities with utilities, companies, and international universities in my group.
If you would like to join or participate in our research projects, please contact me by email with a brief introduction about yourself and why you are interested in joining my group. Please also attach your most recent CV and your transcripts in your email inquiry.
Depending on your eligibility, you may also check the funding opportunities below to participate in the exciting projects in my group.
For potential full-time graduate students:
Graduate Assistantship and Entrance Awards [link]
Doctoral Graduate Fellowship [link]
Doctoral Graduate Fellowship (direct entry only) [link]
Indigenous Graduate Scholarships [link]
Indigenous and Black Engineering/Technology (IBET) Momentum Fellowship [link]
Concordia Black Student Excellence Doctoral Entrance Award [link]
Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship [link]
Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) [link]
Mitacs Globalink Graduate Fellowship (no current calls) [link]
For potential summer undergraduate research internships:
NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA) [link]
Concordia Undergraduate Student Research Awards (CUSRA) [link]
For current Concordia graduate students :
Check all Concordia award opportunities that you are eligible [link]
NSERC STEAM Horizon Awards [link]
NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships:
Mitacs Globalink Research Award (outbound)
For Canada-based senior undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows on 12–24-week research internships at universities overseas. [link]
For potential postdoctoral fellows:
Mitacs Elevate [link]
Canada Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships [link]
Concordia Horizon Postdoctoral Fellowships [link]
Mitacs Early Career Fellowship – China [link]
For potential visiting students and scholars:
Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) [link]
Mitacs Globalink Research Internships, for 3rd-year undergraduates from selected countries. [link]
Mitacs Globalink Research Award, for 12-week research or returning fellows @ Concordia. [link]
China Scholarship Council supports (no longer accepting applications) [link]
Quebec-China Scholarship opportunities (no longer accepting applications) [link]
(In Chinese) 加拿大魁北克省政府奖学金 (no longer accepting applications)[link]