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Professors | Postdoctoral Fellows | PhD Students | Master Students | Alumni

Roch H. Glitho, Ph.D. ing.

Professor of Networking and Telecommunications
Ericsson / ENCQOR Senior Industrial Research Chair

Tel: +1-514-848-2424 - Ext. 5846
Fax: +1-514-848-3171
Office: EV.007.637
Website: http://www.ece.concordia.ca/~glitho/
Email: Glitho@ciise.concordia.ca

Address:
Concordia University - Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE), 1515 Ste-Catherine Street West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 2W1


Postdoctoral Fellows

Amin Ebrahimzadeh, Ph.D.

Amin is a Horizon postdoctoral fellow at Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada. He was educated at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Montréal, QC, Canada, and received his PhD in telecommunications with distinction in 2019. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from University of Tabriz in 2009 and 2011, respectively. From 2011 to 2015, he was with Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran. His research interests include 6G, fiber-wireless networks, Tactile Internet, teleoperation, artificial intelligence enhanced multiaccess edge-computing, and multirobot task allocation. He was a recipient of the Doctoral Research Scholarship from the B2X Program for Foreign Students of Fonds de Recherche du Québec-Nature et Technologies (FRQNT).

Amina Hentati, Ph.D.

Amina is a postdoctoral fellow at Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada. She is a recipient of the Postdoctoral Research Scholarship of Fonds de Recherche du Québec-Nature et Technologies (FRQNT). She received the B.Eng. degree from the Higher School of Communication of Tunis (SUPCOM), Tunis, Tunisia, in 2014. She received the M.A.Sc. and the PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, in 2016 and 2021 respectively. She was a Visiting Research Intern with the Department of Computer Science, UQAM, Montréal, from March 2014 to June 2014. Her research is focused on tactile internet, IoT and wireless sensor networks with energy harvesting, resource allocation, performance analysis, optimization, algorithmic solutions for green 5G networks, queuing theory and stochastic processes.

Mouhamad Dieye, Ph.D.

Mouhamad is a postdoctoral fellow at Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada. He earned his B.Eng. in Computer Science and Telecommunications from the École Supérieure Multinationale des Télécommunications in collaboration with the École Supérieure Polytechnique, Sénégal, in 2012. He also holds an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM). His current research interests include autonomic network and service management, resource allocation, wireless networks (5G/6G and beyond), machine learning, cyber-physical systems, and autonomous aerial vehicles.


Ph.D. Students

Seyedeh Negar Afrasiabi

Email: S_afrasi@encs.concordia.ca

Negar is currently a Ph.D. researcher in Information System Engineering from Concordia University. She received her Master in Information Technology Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran Iran in 2015. Her research interests are Cloud computing, Internet of Thing (IOT), virtualization and machine learning.

Behshid Shayesteh

Email: b_shayes@encs.concordia.ca

Behshid received her Bachelor’s degree in 2015 and her Master’s degree in 2018 both in computer engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student at Concordia University. Her research interests are Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud Networking, Machine Learning, and Trust Management.

Hoda Sedighi

Email: hoda.sedighi@mail.concordia.ca

Hoda is a Ph.D. student in Information System Engineering at Concordia University, Canada.She received her M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Shahid Beheshti University, Iran and, her B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from the Isfahan University of Technology, Iran. She worked as a researcher at the Wireless Networking Laboratory of Shahid Beheshti University in the field of Wireless Sensor Networks, Cognitive Radio Networks, and Artificial Intelligence. In addition, she is an experienced software developer with a demonstrated history of working in the ICT industry. Her main fields of current interest include Cloud and Edge Computing, 5G, and Machine Learning.

Ahsan Saleem

Email: ah_eem@encs.concordia.ca

Ahsan begins his Ph.D. in Information and Systems Engineering at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada in 2020. His research interests are Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning, and Intelligent Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). He received his bachelor’s degree in Telecommunication and Networking, and master’s in computer science, majoring in IoT and Wireless Communication from COMSATS University Islamabad, Wah Campus, Pakistan in 2016 and 2019, respectively.

Mahsa Raeiszadeh

Email: m_Raeisz@encs.concordia.ca

Mahsa received her bachelor’s and master's degrees in Information Technology Engineering from Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran in 2014 and 2018, respectively. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Information and System Engineering at Concordia University. Her research interests are the Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning, and Cloud Computing.

Fatemeh Aghaaliakbari

Email: faliakbari8@gmail.com

Fatemeh earned her Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Iran in 2014. She worked as a Network Engineer at the Mobile Communication Company of Iran (MCCI). She is currently a Ph.D. researcher in Information System Engineering at Concordia University. Her research interests are Cloud Computing, Networked Systems, Virtualization, and Resource Management.

Azadeh Azhdari

Email: Azadeh.azhdari@gmail.com

Azadeh received her master's degrees in Information Technology Engineering-Computer Networks from Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2015. She has 6-years work experience in the Telecommunication industry at companies such as Huawei and Mobile Communication Company of Iran (MCCI). She is currently a Ph.D. student in Information and System Engineering at Concordia University. Her research interests are Cloud Computing, Networked Systems, Virtualization, and Performance Evaluation.

Nafiseh Daemi

Email: nafise.daemi@gmail.com

Nafiseh earned her Master’s Degree in Information Technology Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Iran in 2016 and her Bachelor's degree in Information Technology Engineering from University of Tehran, Iran in 2013. She is currently a Ph.D. researcher in Information System Engineering at Concordia University. Her research interests are Cloud Computing, Internet of Things and Resource Management.

Sasan Sabour

Email: sasansabour@gmail.com

Sasan earned his Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering - Algorithms and Computations from the University of Tehran, Iran in 2018 and his Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering - Software from Razi University, Iran in 2014. He is currently a Ph.D. researcher in Information System Engineering at Concordia University. His research interests are Machine Learning, Internet of Things, and Cloud Computing.

Khadijeh Shahsavand

Email: kh.shahsavand2022@gmail.com

Khadijeh earned her master's degree in Software Engineering from Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran in 2017. She also received her Bachelor's degree in computer engineering from Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamadan, Iran in 2013. She has 6-years work experience as a software developer and a software analyzer. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Information and System Engineering at Concordia University. Her research interests are Cloud Computing, Networked Systems, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, and Machine Learning.


Master Students

Farzaneh Ghassemi

Email: farzaneh.g1995@gmail.com

Farzaneh received her bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering (Information Technology) from the Sharif University of Technology in 2020, Iran. Her BSc thesis project was on Comparative evaluation of electronics equipment of smart homes. She is currently a master's student in Computer Science at Concordia University, Canada. Her research interests are Cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT) and Tactile internet.

Zarin Tasnim

Email: zarintasnim587@gmail.com

Zarin Tasnim is a master's student in Computer Science at Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada. She has completed her bachelor degree in Computer Science and Engineering from BRAC University, Bangladesh in 2021. She is interested in pursuing her future career in the field of computer science and her research interests are Cloud Computing, Machine Learning, Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence.


Alumni

Adila Mebrek, Ph.D.

Adila is a postdoctoral followship at Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada. She received the National Engineer Diploma degree in computer sciences from the Ecole Nationale d’Informatique (ESI), Algiers, Algeria, in 2014, the M.S. degree in computer sciences from ESI, in 2014, the M.Sc. degree in networks from the University of Claude Bernard Lyon1, France, in 2015, and the Ph.D. degree in computer sciences from University of Technology of Troyes, France in 2020. She worked as Azure Engineer at Microsoft Paris, France between 2020 and 2022. Her research interests include energy management, resource allocation, and performance evaluation in cloud computing and edge computing.

Raha Abbasi

Email:raha.abbasi.gh@gmail.com

Raha is currently a Ph.D. researcher in Information System Engineering from Concordia University. She received her Master degree in computer engineering from Hamadan University, Iran in 2014. Also, she worked in the industry for 4 years. At present, her research interests are Cloud computing, CDN, and machine learning.

Vahid Maleki Raee

Email: vahid.mlkr@gmail.com

Vahid received his bachelor’s and master's degrees in computer science, majoring in computer systems and networks in 2012 and 2015, respectively, from the University of Malaya (UM), Malaysia. He began his Ph.D. in Information System Engineering as part of the IoT team in May 2016 at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. His work covers Internet of Things (IoT), Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), optimization, virtualization, Virtual Network Embedding (VNE), distributed systems, and 5G/6G.

Prateek Bagora

Email: prateekbagora05@gmail.com

Prateek is a master's student in Computer Science at Concordia University, Canada. He received his bachelor's in Computer Science and Engineering from Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, India. Following this, he worked in business analytics for over four years as an SAP Consultant. His research interests include Cloud Computing and Machine Learning.

Ajay Kumar Lakshmipura Vijaykumar

Email: ajaykumar.lakshmipuravijaykumar@mail.concordia.ca

Ajay Kumar Lakshmipura Vijaykumar is currently pursuing a master's in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Concordia University, Canada. He received bachelor's in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Bangalore Institute of Technology, India. Following this, he has worked at Moog Inc for over four and half years as a Software Engineer. His research interests include Neuromorphic Computing, Telecommunication Networks, and Resource allocation in 5G OFDMA.

Marsa Rayani

Email: m_rayani@encs.concordia.ca

Marsa is a Ph.D. student in Information System Engineering at Concordia University, Canada. She is working on CDN, ICN, 5G, network slicing and VNE. She received her Bachelors in Computer Software Engineering in Iran and her Masters in Computer Science, Distributed Computing from University Putra Malaysia. 

Nattakorn Promwongsa

Email:nattakorn.pws@gmail.com

Nattakorn Promwongsa received his B.Eng in Electrical Engineering at Thammasat University in 2014 and his M.Eng in Telecommunications at Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand in 2016. Currently, he is studying a Ph.D program in Information and System Engineering at Concordia University, Canada. His research interest is tactile internet.

Sepideh Malektaji

Email: sepideh.malektaji@gmail.com

Sepideh was born in 1989. She received her B.Sc. degree in Computer Software Engineering from International university of Imam Khomeini . In 2015 she completed her M.S. studies in the field of Computer Architecture in Mohaghegh Ardabili. Curretly she is a Ph.D student in Concordia university. Her current research interests are Computer Networks, Cloud computing, Virtualization, and Machine Learning. 

Jasmeen Kaurahluwalia

Email: jasmeenkaurahluwalia@gmail.com

Jasmeen completed her Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from Amity University, Noida, India. She has also worked as an intern at E.I. DuPont, India in the field of IoT. She is currently doing her Masters degree in Computer Science at Concordia University, Montreal. She has published several papers in the field of IoT, and her current research interests include Cloud and Fog Computing, IoT, Artificial Intelligence.

Farinaz Rasouli

Email: farinazrassouli@gmail.com

Farinaz is a Master student in Computer Science at Concordia University, Canada. She received her Bachelor in Computer Software Engineering in Iran and her first Master in MBA-IT from Multimedia University in Malaysia and Sharif University of Technology- International Campus, Iran. She has an experience of five years teaching and doing research at Azad University, Iran. Her research interests are, Cloud Computing, Networking, Content Delivery Networks, Educational and Environmental Business fields.

Yassine Jebbar

Email: yassine.jeb13@gmail.com

Yassine received his Computer Engineering degree from Institut National des Postes et Telecommunications (INPT), Rabat, Morocco in September 2017. Before coming to the team, he has an internship in CETIC Research Center in Charleroi, Belgium working on NFV security using the Blockchain technology.He is currently working on Virtual Reality and Tactile Internet.

 

Fereshteh ebrahimnezhad

Email: fereshteh.e92@gmail.com

Fereshteh received her Bachelors in Information Technology Engineering from University of Tehran, Iran in 2015. She is working towards her masters degree in Computer Science at Concordia University, Canada. Her current research interests are IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Content Delivery Network (CDN), Cloud Computing and IoT.

Abbas Soltanian

Email: ab_solta@encs.concordia.ca

Abbas has received his Bachelors in Software Engineering from Tabarestan University, Iran in 2008 and his Masters in Information Technology from Sharif University of Technology, Iran in 2011.  He also got his Ph.D. in Information System Engineering at Concordia University, Canada in 2018. During his PhD, he worked on cloud computing and multimedia conferencing applications provisioning in cloud.

Narjes Tahghigh Jahromi

Email: n.tahghigh@gmail.com

Narjes received her Bachelor’s degree in software engineering from Shiraz Azad University, Iran, and obtained her Master’s degree in Information Technology/Networking from Sharif University of Technology-International Campus, Iran. She also got her Ph.D. degree in Information System Engineering at Concordia University, Canada in 2018. Her research interests include content delivery networks, cloud computing, NFV and SDN.

Carla Mouradian

Email: carla.mouradian@hotmail.com

She received her Bachelor’s degree (telecommunication Engineering) from University of Aleppo, Syria in 2009, and obtained her Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Concordia University, Canada in 2014. She also got her Ph.D. degree in Information System Engineering at Concordia University in 2018. Her research interests include cloud computing, virtualization, and Internet of Things.

Mohammad Abu Lebdeh

Email: m_abuleb@encs.concordia.ca

Mohammad holds the Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Concordia University, Canada in 2012. He has received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from
An-Najah National University, Palestine in 2005. He later worked as a Software Engineer for several years.
He started his Ph.D as part of the IMS team in 2013. His work covers Cloud Computing, Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Software-Ddefined Networks (SDN), IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)
and Evolved Packet Core (EPC).

 

Diala Naboulsi, Ph.D.

Email: d_naboul@encs.concordia.ca

Diala Naboulsi obtained the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from INSA Lyon, France in 2015. As part of a double degree program, she received in 2012 the M.S. degree in Computer Science from INSA Lyon, France and the M.Eng. degree in Telecommunications from the Lebanese University, Lebanon. She has been a visiting Ph.D. student at the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 2013. Her research interests cover a variety of aspects in the areas of Cellular Networks, Data Analysis, Vehicular Networks, and Content Delivery Networks. She currently serves as a reviewer for several international journals and conferences.

Nazmul Alam

Email:fadedreamz@gmail.com

Mohammad Nazmul Alam holds the BSc degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET), in 2010. He started his working in Advanced R&D team and later moved to Solution Lab in Samsung Research Institute, Bangladesh (SRBD). In 2016 he enrolled into MSc in Computer Science in Concordia to pursue higher education. His work will be covering Cloud Computing, IoT and ICN.

Sandhya Shanmugasundaram

Email: coolssandy@gmail.com

Sandhya got her Masters in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Concordia University, Canada. She completed her Bachelors in Engineering (Electrical & Electronics) from Anna University, India. She then worked as a Programmer Analyst at Cognizant Technology Solutions, India. Her research interests are Cloud computing, Content Delivery Networks and Network Function Virtualization.

Deepak Aggarwal

Email: 17.deepakaggarwal@gmail.com

Deepak Kumar Aggarwal holds an B.Tech (2013) in Electronics and Communication from the DAVIET, India and got his MASc. from Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering(ECE) at Concordia University, Canada. He has worked in Samsung Research Lab, India and in Defence R&D Organization(DRDO), India as a trainee.

Peyman TalebiFard, Ph.D.

Email: peymant@ece.ubc.ca

Peyman completed his PhD and MASc in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2014 and 2009. He obtained his BEng at Carleton University in 2006 with high distinction. Scope of his research includes design and analysis of architectures, protocols, and management for wireless and mobile communication systems. He has held research positions at Ericsson Canada, Huawei USA and Mobidia Inc. Canada.

Sami Yangui, Ph.D.

Website:http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~s_yangui/
Email: s_yangui@encs.concordia.ca

He holds a Ph.D (2014) in Computer Science from Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, France and an M.Sc. (2010) in Computer Science from the University of Tunis-ELManar, Tunisia. His research interests include Cloud Computing, Service-Oriented Computing and Internet of Things, Content Delivery Networks, and Network Function Virtualization. He is member of several Technical and Organization Program Committees and Reviewer for several international conferences, journals and magazines.

Shohreh Ahvar

Email: shohreh.ahvar@telecom-sudparis.eu

She received B.S degree in Information Technology and M.S degree in Electrical Engineering-Telecommunication (Networks) both from Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran. She is currently a Ph.D candidate at the Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis in co-accreditation with the Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris 6) on the topic of cloud based content delivery networks. She is also a collaborating researcher at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada working on Ericson funded project. Her research interests are Network Function Virtualization, Content Delivery Networks, Cloud computing and Wireless Sensor Networks.

 

Fatima Ronda

Fatima Zahra Errounda holds a BSc degree in software engineering from Faculte des Sciences et Techniques Hassan II in 2002. She worked for 9 years with C++. She joined the ETS Lab in 2012 for her MSc in Software engineering, she graduated in December 2014. Her work covered Cloud Computing and IoT.

 

Imran Khan

Website: http://www.imrankhan1984.com
Email: imran@ieee.org

Imran Khan holds a BS degree in Computer Science from COMSATS Institute of IT, Pakistan and a MS degree in Multimedia and Communication from M.A. Jinnah University, Pakistan. He was member of Center of Research in Networks and Telecom (CoReNeT) from 2008 to 2010 and worked on projects funded by French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Internet Society (ISOC), USA. Currently he is a Ph.D. research student at Institut Mines-Télécom, Télécom SudParis jointly with Paris VI (UPMC). He is also a collaborating researcher at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada working on a CISCO funded project with Prof. Glitho. He is student member of IEEE and has also contributed to the IETF standardization. His research interests are Internet of Things (IoT), virtualization, cloud computing, service engineering, and wireless sensor networks.

Jagruti Sahoo, Ph.D.

Email:jagrutiss@gmail.com

Jagruti Sahoo received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Central University, Taiwan in January 2013. She worked as a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Sherbrooke, Canada from 2013 to 2014. She joined Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University as a Post-doctoral Fellow in February 2015. Her research interests include Internet of Things, content delivery networks, Network Functions Virtualization and Software Defined Networking.

Rifat Jafrin

Email: r_jafri@encs.concordia.ca

Rifat Jafrin received her bachelor degree (2010) in Computer Science from Military Institute of Science & Technology (MIST), Bangladesh. She completed her MBA degree (2013) in Management Information System from Dhaka University, Bangladesh. She worked as a Senior Executive at Getco Telecom, Bangladesh. She started her Master degree in Computer Science from Concordia University from 2014. She is working in the CISCO project and her research interests are Cloud Computing, Wireless Sensor Network, Semantic Web, and Virtualization.

Ahmad Ferdous Bin Alam

Email: ahmadferdous@gmail.com

Ferdous holds the Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2008. He later worked as a Software Engineer for 5 years in several
compagnies such as AfriGIS Ltd., Eyeball Networks Inc. and NoveTel Ltd. He led a team of over 10 engineers for 2 years.
He started his Masters as part of the CDN-Multimedia team in 2013. His work covers Cloud Computing, Multimedia Conferencing and Software Architecture.

 

Mohammad Ali Salahuddin, Ph.D.

Website:https://sites.google.com/site/m1salahu/
Email: mohammad.salahuddin@ieee.org

Mohammad Ali Salahuddin (S’09–M’15) received the B.S. degree in computer science from the University of Karachi, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, in 1999, the M.S. degree in computer science from the Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan, in 2001, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA, in 2003 and 2014, respectively. His research interests include Wireless Sensor Networks, QoS and QoE in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (WAVE, IEEE 802.11p and IEEE 1609.4), Internet of Things, Content Delivery Networks, Software-Defined Networks, Network Function Virtualization and Cloud Resource Management. Dr. Salahuddin serves as a Technical Program Committee member and Reviewer for IEEE journals, magazines and conferences.

Suryaveer Chauhan

Email: s_chauh@encs.concordia.ca

Suryaveer holds the Bachelor's degree in Information & Technology from Purvanchal University, India in 2006. He later worked for 7 years as a Software Developer in India.
He started his Master as part of the IMS team in 2015. His work cover Cloud Computing and IP Multimedia Subsystems.