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CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENTS:

AVA AMERI, Master of IT (MAIST), York, 2024

AMIRHOSSEIN AHMADNEGHAD, Master of computer Science (MCS), 2024

JOHN BEDEABASI, PhD Student (NC A&T), 2024

REZA ABBASZADEH, Master of computer Science (MCS), 2024

JASON MATTH GREEN, PhD Student (NC A&T), 2023

YASIN DEHFULI, Master of Computer Science (MCS), York, 2023

Ilkay Kaya, MScMP, York, 2023

AUDITH SHARMA, Master of IT (MAIST), York, 2023

NIOSHA HEJAZI, Master of IT (MAIST), York, 2023

Mahdiye Khalaji, MASc, York, 2023

AREFEH KOUHI, Master of IT (MAIST), York, 2023

MOEIN SHAFI, Master of Computer Science (MCS), York, 2022

FORMER POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS:

GURDIP KAUR, PhD
2019-2021 (UNB-CIC)
Project: DoH security (CIRA)

FORMER GRADUATE STUDENTS:

SEPIDEH HOSSEINKHANI, MCS student, York, 2024 “Smart Contracts Security”

EHAB ALKHATEEB, PhD student, UNB, 2024 “Malware Analysis”

MADUMITHA VENKAT, MCS student, UNB, 2023 “IoT Security”

SEPIDEH NIKTABE, MCS student, York, 2024 “IoT security”

MOHAMMED AL-DAWROBI, PhD student, UNB, 2023 “Quantum Security”

KWASI BOAKYE, PhD student, UNB, 2023 “Security and Trust”

HESAM MOHAMMADIAN, PhD student, UNB, 2024 “Network Security”

MARYAM ISAKHANI, MCS, UNB, 2022 “PDF Malware”

TRISTAN CARRIER, MCS, UNB, 2022 “Memory Analysis”

MOHAMMAD MEHDI YADOLLAHI, MCS student, UNB, 2020

MIRAQA SAFI, MCS, UNB, 2021 “IoT profiling”

JAKE VAN DER LAAN, MCS, UNB, 2021 “Phishing Detection”

SAEED SHAFIEE HASANABADI, PhD, UNB, 2020 “Anti-Forensics”

YASHAR ALIMOHAMMADZADEH, MCS, IAUEC, 2018 “Botnet tracing and detection”

MOHAMMADREZA MONTAZERISHATOORI, MCS, UNB, 2020 “DoH Security”

NASTARAN MAHMOUSYAR, MCS, UNB, 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”

DAVID SEAN KEYES, BCS, UNB, 2021 “Android Malware Analysis” (The Best Technical Report Award)

JAUSTIN GAUDET, BCS, UNB, 2020 “Authorship Attribution” (The Best Senior Honours Thesis Award)

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:

MELISSA LUKINGS, 2019-2021 (UNB – Undergraduate)
Project: UCCL

MEHRSA KHOSHPASAND, 2022-2022 (York – Undergraduate)
Project: Malware Detection

MELISSA LUKINGS, 2022-2022 (York – RA)
Project: Data Sovereignty
CO-OP STUDENTS

LOGAN DAVIDSON, 2019 Fall (UNB – Undergraduate)
Project: DNS Over HTTPS (DOH)

BEIQI LI, 2019 Fall (UNB – Undergraduate)
Project: AndroidAppLyzer

LOGAN A. DAVIDSON, 2020 Winter (UNB – Undergraduate)
Project: DNS Over HTTPS (DOH)

GLOBAL INTERNSHIP STUDENTS:

HARDHIK MOHANTY (FROM INDIA), 2022 Summer (York, Mitacs)
Project: Encrypted Traffic Analysis

NIKHILL VOMBATKERE (FROM INDIA), 2022 Summer (York, Mitacs)
Project: Authership Attribution

ABIR RAHIL (FROM TUNISIA), 2019 Summer (UNB, Mitacs)
Project: Android Malware Analysis

ANJALI BERA (FROM INDIA), 2021 Summer (UNB , Mitacs)
Project: Android Malware

ABHISHEK CHOPRA (FROM INDIA), 2021 Summer (UNB, Mitacs)
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)

WILL BARTLETT, 2018
Project: Honeynet (CIC)

DRAKE LUCE, 2018-2019
Project: Android Sandbox (CIC)

XICHEN ZHANG, 2018-2019
Projects: URL Analysis (ISCX), Cybersecurity Insurance (CIC & Cooperators)

HAMIDREZA TALEBI, 2018-2019
Projects: Honeynet, CICIDS2017 (CIC), CSE-CIC-IDS-2018 (CIC & CSE)

YONGCAN ZANG, 2017-2018
Projects: Network Flow Meter (CIC), UUP (CIC & IBM)

GIFT OWHUO, 2017
Project: Network Flow Meter(CIC)

AMY SEO, 2017
Project: Secure Browser (ISCX)

AMIR HOSSEIN GHARIB, 2016-2017
Projects: CIC Benign Behaviour (CIC), UUP (CIC & IBM)

ANDI FITRIAH ABDULKADIR, 2016-2018
Projects: UUP (CIC & IBM), Malware Analysis (CIC)

KENNETH FON MBAH, 2017
Project: Network Flow Meter(CIC)

THESIS EXAMINER:

IBRAHIM JAOUHAR
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner,
MAIST, York, March 2022

BEHNAM BOJNORDI ARAB
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner,
MCS, UNB, January 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