Student Supervision

Current Ph.D. Students

Arash Daneshmand (Joint supervision with Drs. Makan Pourzandi and Suryadipta Majumdar)
Hugo Kermabon-Bobinnec (Joint supervision with Dr. Suryadipta Majumdar)

Sareh Mohammadi (Joint supervision with Drs. Azadeh Tabiban and Mourad Debbabi)

Current M.A.Sc Students

Tomas Navarro Munera (Joint supervision with Drs. Yosr Jarraya and Suryadipta Majumdar)
Shrutibahen Rana (Joint supervision with Dr. Mourad Debbabi)
Jainil Shah (Joint supervision with Dr. Suryadipta Majumdar)
Bergen Davis (Joint supervision with Dr. Suryadipta Majumdar)
Rogelio Pumajulca (Joint supervision with Dr. Suryadipta Majumdar)


Former PDF

Mohammad Ekramul Kabir [Currently working as an Assistant Professor at University Canada West]

Former Ph.D. Students

  1. Djedjiga Mouheb (Joint supervision with Dr. Mourad Debbabi) [Currently working as an Assistant Professor at Université Laval]
  2. Wenming Liu [Currently working as a Strategic Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist at Ontario Ministry of Government and Consumer Services]
  3. Mengyuan Zhang [Currently working as an Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam]
  4. Saed Alrabaee (Joint supervision with Dr. Mourad Debbabi) [Currently working as an Assistant Professor at United Arab Emirates University]
  5. Suryadipta Majumdar [Currently working as an Associate Professor at Concordia University]
  6. Taous Madi (Joint supervision with Dr. Mourad Debbabi) [Currently working as a Research Scientist at Ericsson]
  7. Nawaf Alhebaishi  [Currently working as an Assistant Professor at King Abdulaziz University (KAU)] 
  8. Meisam Mohammady (Joint supervision with Dr. Yuan Hong) [Currently working as an Assistant Professor at Iowa State University]
  9. Paria Shirani (Joint supervision with Dr. Mourad Debbabi) [Currently working as an Assistant Professor at University of Ottawa]
  10. Azadeh Tabiban (Joint supervision with Dr. Makan Pourzandi) [Currently working as an Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba]
  11. Onur Duman (Joint supervision with Dr. Mourad Debbabi) [Currently working as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at Glasgow Caledonian University (UK)]
  12. Momen Oqaily (Joint supervision with Dr. Mourad Debbabi) [First job: Assistant Professor at Princess Sumaya University for Technology (Jordan)]
  13. Alaa Oqaily (Joint supervision with Dr. Yosr Jarraya)

Former M.A.Sc Students

  1. Xuxin Xu (Joint supervision with Dr. Amr Youssef) [First job: Senior Security Manager, Freeborders]
  2. Shuo Lu (Joint supervision with Dr. Rachida Dssouli) [First job: Ericsson]
  3. Yuan Hong (Joint supervision with Dr. Rachida Dssouli) [Currently Assistant Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology, USA]
  4. Qian Liu (Joint supervision with Dr. Rachida Dssouli) 
  5. Noman Mohammed (Joint supervision with Dr. Mourad Debbabi) [Currently Assistant Professor at University of Manitoba, Canada]
  6. Wei Li [First job: System and Network Security Manager, VLM Food Trading International] 
  7. Tao Long
  8. Tania Islam [First job: Operations Systems Analyst, RBC Royal Bank]
  9. Wenming Liu  (Joint supervision with Dr. Amr Youssef) [First job: Ph.D. student, Concordia University]
  10. Dayong Zhang  (Joint supervision with Dr. Yong Zeng) [First job: Analyst and Programmer, iPerceptions]
  11. Vitor Nunes de Lima  (Joint supervision with Dr. Mourad Debbabi) [First job: Software Developer, Embvue Inc.]
  12. Shuai Liu [First job: Application Support Specialist, Presagia]
  13. Marcel Frigault 
  14. Yiming Wang
  15. Li Deng 
  16. Pengsu Cheng [First job: Software Developer at Nakisa Inc.]
  17. Thomas Ormerod  (Joint supervision with Dr. Mourad Debbabi) [First job: Manager, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]  
  18. Raha Ziarati (Joint supervision with Dr. Mourad Debbabi) [First job: Threat Analyst, Sophos]
  19. William Nzoukou Tankou [First job: Security Associate, Morgan Stanley]
  20. Mickael Emirkanian-Bouchard [First job: Security Associate, Morgan Stanley]
  21. Sahba Sadri (Joint supervision with Dr. Mourad Debbabi) [First job: Jr. IT Auditor, Canadian National Railway]
  22. Taher Azab (Joint supervision with Dr. Mourad Debbabi) [First job: Security Analyst, Desjardins]
  23. Wei Huo
  24. Nafisa Khundker (Joint supervision with Dr. Yong Zeng)
  25. Mina Khalili   [First job: Research Engineer, Above Security (Hitachi)]
  26. Yushun Wang (Joint supervision with Dr. Mourad Debbabi) [First job: Developer, Above Security (Hitachi)]
  27. Amir Alimohammadifar [First job: Security Tool Developer, Gameloft]
  28. Yue Xin [First job: Application Support Analyst, Société Générale]
  29. Momen Oqaily (Joint supervision with Dr. Mourad Debbabi)  [First job: Ph.D. student, Concordia University]
  30. Gagandeep Singh Chawla [First job: Cloud Security Analyst, SAP]
  31. Alis Rasic [First job: Developer at Above Security (Hitachi)]
  32. Sudershan Lakshmanan (Joint supervision with Dr. Mengyuan Zhang) [First job: IT Security Engineer, University of Basel (Switzerland)]
  33. Hugo Kermabon-Bobinnec (Joint supervision with Dr. Suryadipta Majumdar) [First job: Ph.D. student, Concordia University]
  34. Mahmood Gholipour (Joint supervision with Dr. Suryadipta Majumdar) [First job: System Software Developer at Polaris Motion]
  35. Sima Bagheri (Joint supervision with Dr. Suryadipta Majumdar)  
  36. Jia Wei Yao (Joint supervision with Dr. Suryadipta Majumdar)
  37. Alireza Moghaddas Borhan (Joint supervision with Dr. Makan Pourzandi)


I am always looking for students who are self-motivated and interested in research on information system security.

Useful Resources

Paper Reading and Writing Check Lists
"How to be a good graduate student"
"How to do research at the MIT AI lab"
"How to increase the chances your paper is accepted at ACM SIGCOMM"