I am affiliated with the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, CIISE at Concordia University. My titles are:

• Director of the CIISE Institute,
• Concordia University Research Chair Tier I,
• Full Professor.
• Vice President of the National Cyber Forensics Training Alliance, NCFTA Canada

I received my education from the following institutions:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science from Paris XI Orsay University, France
• M. Sc. in Computer Science from Paris XI Orsay University, France
• B. Eng. in Computer Engineering from Constantine University, Algeria

I worked for the following institutions:

• Senior Scientist at PINTL Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
• Senior Scientist at General Electric Corporate Research, New York, USA
• Research Associate at Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
• Permanent Researcher at Bull Corporate Research Center, Paris, France
• Tenured Associate Professor at Laval University, Ste Foy, Quebec, Canada

Among my current/past professional activities:

• Vice President of the National Cyber Forensics Training Alliance, NCFTA Canada
• Member of Concordia University Senate
• Member of Senate Research Committee
• Section Chair of an NSERC Grant Selection Committee
• Member of an FQRNT Grant Selectoin Committee
• Specification Lead of 4 Java Specification Standards i.e. Java Specification Requests:
  • JSR 164: JAIN SIMPLE Presence (based on the IETF SIP/SIMPLE Protocol)
  • JSR 165: JAIN SIMPLE Instant Messaging (based on the IETF SIP/SIMPLE Protocol)
  • JSR 186: JAIN Presence (protocol agnostic)
  • JSR 187: JAIN Instant Messaging (protocol agnostic)
• Expert Group Member for the following Java Standards:
  • JSR 123: JAIN PAM
  • JSR 125: JAIN SIP Lite
  • JSR 139: CLDC 1.1
  • JSR 180: SIP for Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME)
  • JSR 185: Java Technology for Wireless Industry
• JAIN Council member
• JAIN IP Focus Team Member
• Participated in the Executive Committee of the Java Community Process (representing Matsushita)

I am leading together with 5 colleagues the Computer Security Laboratory. The latter is a research group made of more than 50 full-time researchers working on various themes in computer security. In the past years, my students won the following awards:

• CIPA, National Excellence Award in Information Technologies
• OCTAS, Quebec State Excellence Award in Information Technologies
• TechnoFed, Governmental Excellence Award in Information Technologies

My research interests include:

• Computer Security
• Cyber Forensics
• Malicious Code Detection
• Cryptographic Protocols
• Java and Web Technologies
• Program Static and Dynamic Analysis
• Programming Languages
• Software Engineering
• Formal Methods
• Distributed Computing
• Mobile Computing
• Formal Semantics

I wrote more than 170 research papers published in Books, International Journals and Conferences. I supervised and brought to successful completion 13 Ph.D. students and supervised to successful completion more than 60 graduate students.