Current Graduate Students
Yasin Dehfuli,
MCS student, York, 2023
Jason Matthew Green,
PhD student, NC A&T, 2023
Mahdiye Khalaji,
MCE student, York, 2023
Adit Sharma,
MAIST student, York, 2023
ILKAY KAYA,
MPM student, York, 2023
Tinshu Sasi,
MCS student, UNB, 2022
Arefeh Kouhi,
MAIST student, York, 2023
Niosha Hejazi,
MAIST student, York, 2023
Sepideh Niktabe,
MCS student, York, 2022
Sepideh Hosseinkhani,
MCS student, York, 2022
Moein Shafi,
MCS student, York, 2022
Kwasi Boakye,
PhD student, UNB, 2019
Hesam Mohammadian,
PhD student, UNB, 2019
Ehab Alkhateeb,
PhD student, UNB, 2020
Former Postdoctoral Fellows
Gurdip Kaur, PhD
PDF, UNB-CIC, 2019-2021
Project: DoH security (CIRA)
Former Graduate Students
Mohammed Al-dawrobi,
PhD, UNB, 2018-2023
Madumitha Venkat,
MCS, UNB, 2020-2022
Maryam Isakhani,
MCS, UNB, 2020-2022
"PDF Malware"
Tristan Carrier,
MCS, UNB, 2020-2022
"Memory Analysis"
Mohammad Mehdi Yadollahi,
MCS, UNB, 2018-2020
Miraqa Safi,
MCS, UNB, 2019-2021
"IoT profiling"
JAKE Van Der Laan,
MCS, UNB, 2019-2021
"Phishing Detection"
Saeed Shafiee Hasanabadi,
PhD, UNB, 2017-2020
"Anti-Forensics"
Yashar Alimohammadzadeh,
MCS, IAUEC, 2018-2020
"Botnet tracing and detection"
Mohammadreza MontazeriShatoori,
MCS, UNB, 2018-2020
"DoH Security"
Nastaran Mahmousyar,
MCS, UNB, 2018-2020
"IoT Malware"
Mohammad Seifi Dahaki,
MCS, IAUEC, 2018
"IoT authentication"
Saeed Torkamani,
MCS, IAUEC, 2017
"Phishing and Spam Email"
Golnaz Farahi Moghadam,
MCS, IAUEC, 2017
"Banking and Multi-layer Authentications"
Shima Pouyanrad,
MCS, IAUEC, 2017
"Malware detection"
Mehdi Faraji,
MCS, IAUEC, 2017
"Security Model for Information Sharing"
Mohsen Moghanian,
MCS, IAUEC, 2016
"SYN Flood attack prevention"
Maryam Taheri,
MCS, IAUEC, 2016
"E-Commerce composite web services"
Hasan Shadmanfar,
MCS, IAUEC, 2017
"One Time Password"
Masoume Ghasemi,
MCS, IAUEC, 2015
"E-business Malware"
Mohsin R. Albayati,
MCS, LUCT, 2014
"Graphical Password"
Ahmad Z. El-Rufai,
MCS, LUCT, 2014
"Graphical Password"
Gratien Shumbusho,
MCS, LUCT, 2014
"Secure Authentication"
Atwine Mugume Twinamatsiko,
MCS, LUCT, 2013
"Multiple-tenancy in Cloud Systems"
Jugal Harshvadan Joshi
MCS, LUCT, 2013
"Quality model for IaaS Providers"
Ali Naser Abdulhussein,
MCS, LUCT, 2013
"Load Balancing for Virtualized Cloud Data Center"
Former Undergraduate Students
Aaron Frank,
BCS, UNB, 2021
"Phishing Email"
Jaustin Gaudet,
BCS, UNB, 2020
(The Best Senior Honours Thesis Award)
"Authorship Attribution"
Kanat Yesseyev,
BCS, LUCT, 2012
"Graphical Passwords"
Elmira Yesseyev,
BCS, LUCT, 2012
"Graphical Passwords"
Mustafa Aldally,
BCS, LUCT, 2012
"Graphical Passwords"
Mike Ng Ah Ngan
BCS, LUCT, 2010
Ali Nader Mahmed Mahmed
BCS, LUCT, 2012
Ali Garba Garba
BCS, LUCT, 2012
Bade Aliyu Musa
BCS, LUCT, 2012
Kanammal A/P Sandrasekaran2
BCS, LUCT, 2012
Keamogetwe Oteng
BCS, LUCT, 2012
One Ndaba
BCS, LUCT, 2012
Seyed Mostafa Hosseini
BCS, UITM, 2010
Imam Musa Abiodunde Tele
BCS, LUCT, 2011
Mohammed A.Tahir
BCS, LUCT, 2011
Shahan Ahmad Chouwdhary,
BCS, LUCT, 2011
Waqas Khalid Obeidy
BCS, LUCT, 2011
Tan Yi Shin
BCS, LUCT, 2010
Muazun asiru danmaliki
BCS, UM, 2010
Ashraf Abbas M. Al-Modwahi
BCS, LUCT, 2010
Bashir Abdu Muzakkari
BCS, LUCT, 2010
Chicco Mokhe
BCS, LUCT, 2011
Denis Bantariza
BCS, LUCT, 2010
Koh Boon San
BCS, LUCT, 2010
Mohammed Abdul Karim
BCS, LUCT, 2010
Capstone Projects - Bell Canada
A. Abuelatta, 2021 Summer
(UNB - MACSec)
Project: Data Sovereignty
Lucas McDonald, 2021 Summer
(UNB - MACSec)
Project: Data Sovereignty
Rehnuma Tabassum, 2021 Summer
(UNB - MACSec)
Project: Credential Stuffing Attacks
Ashley Barkworth, 2019-2021
(UNB - MACSec)
Project: Credential Stuffing Attacks
Research Assistants
Maryam Issakhani, 2023-2023
(York - Graduate)
Project: Software Security
Xie He, 2023-2023
(York - Undergraduate, DARE Grant)
Project: Authorship Attribution
Mehrsa Khoshpasand, 2022-2022
(York - Undergraduate, NSERC USRA Grant)
Project: Malware Detection
Melissa Lukings, 2022-2023
(York - RA)
Project: Data Sovereignty
Co-op Students
Global Internship students
Bhaskar Joshi (From India),
York, 2023 Summer
Project: Authorship Attribution
ABHAY PRATAP SINGH (From India),
York, 2023 Summer
Project: Memory Analysis
Hardhik Mohanty (From India),
York, 2022 Summer
Project: Encrypted Traffic Analysis
Nikhill Vombatkere (From India),
York, 2022 Summer
Project: Authership Attribution
Anjali Bera (From India),
UNB-CIC, 2021 Summer
Project: Android Malware
Abhishek Chopra (From India),
UNB-CIC, 2021 Summer
Project: Authership Attribution
Folks worked/working with me on Industrial Research projects
Yaser Baseri,2020-2021
Projects: BGP traffic analysis (CIC & Bell)
Amgad Hanafy Salem,2020-2021
Projects: BGP, GRE and DNS traffic analysis (CIC & Bell)
Iman Sharafaldin,2017-2020
Projects: CICDDoS2019 (CIC), CICIDS2017 (CIC), CSE-CIC-IDS-2018 (CIC & CSE), Threat Analsysis (CIC & Bell)
Laya Taheri, 2018-2020
Projects: InvesAndMal (CIC), Android Malware (CIC)Android Sandbox (CIC), Vulnerability Analysis (CIC & City of SaintJohn)
Nasim Maleki, 2018-2020
Projects: Cybersecurity Insurance (CIC & Cooperators), DNS Analsysis (CIC & Bell)
Samaneh Mahdavifar, 2018-2019
Project: DNS Analsysis (CIC & Bell)
Hamid Azimy, 2018-2019
Project: Cybersecurity Insurance (CIC & Cooperators)
XiChen Zhang, 2018-2019
Projects: URL Analysis (ISCX), Cybersecurity Insurance (CIC & Cooperators)
Amir Hossein Gharib, 2016-2017
Projects: CIC Benign Behaviour (CIC), UUP (CIC & IBM)
Thesis Examiner
Sagarika Ghosh
External Thesis Defense Examiner, PhD, Dalhousie University, August 2023
Mohammad Hassanpour
Final MCS Report examiner, MCS, York University, August 2023
Ibrahim Jaouhar
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner, MAIST, York University, March 2022
Behnam Bojnordi Arab
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner, MCS, UNB, January 2022
Khadijeh Saednia
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner, PhD, York University, December 2022
Samin Fakharian
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner (Chair), MCS, UNB, April 2021
MohammadHossein Parastar
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner, MCS, UNB, August 2020
Shubhangi Upadhyay
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner, MCS, UNB, April 2020
Shreshth Kumar
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner, MCS, UNB, April 2020
Laya Taheri
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner, MCS, UNB, April 2020
Aaron Broad
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner, MCS, UNB, April 2019
Rasool Fatemi
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner (Chair), MCS, UNB, December 2019
Josia Mololuwa Oyinola
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner (Chair), MCS, UNB, December 2019
Saravanan B
External Thesis Defense Examiner, PhD, Anna University, India, December 2019
Mahdi Hosseinali
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner, PhD, UNB, Aug 2019
Fatemeh Lashkari
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner, PhD, UNB, July 2019
Mahdi Bashari
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner, PhD, UNB, Sep 2018
Deepigha Shree Vittal Babu
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner, MCS, UNB, August 2018
Andrii Kuch
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner, MCS, UNB, August 2018
Nafis Izadi Yekta
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner, MCS, UNB, July 2018
Researchers named among top researchers for Canada 150
The cybersecurity Research and Academic Leadership award, Canada 2019
The cybersecurity academic award, Canada 2017