I am recruiting well-motivated graduate students with
IS/CS/IT/Engineering background in the
SIS PhD program
and
SIS
Master's program (project option). The candidates should have
strong interests in the research areas of data
mining, deep learning, cybersecurity,
large-scale computation, privacy protection, or software engineering.
Watch my videos to better understand my
research directions.
If you are a McGill student or an NSERC/FRQNT scholarship recipient, then drop me an
e-mail and we can meet in person or have a chat
online; otherwise, please read the following procedure.
Step #1: The following lists the
basic requirements for joining my research team. They do not reflect the
admission requirements of the School, the University, or other research
teams in the School.
self-motivated with independent problem solving
skills,
good writing skills,
proficient in object-oriented programming and design, and
familiar with Java and Python,
knowledge of data science, TensorFlow, MapReduce, NoSQL, etc.
would be
an asset,
GPA >= 3.2/4.0in
both graduate (if applicable) and undergraduate study. Applicants below
3.2 will be considered depending on other merits, e.g., publication
record and reputation of previous universities. (Please note that McGill has its own
way of calculating GPA.)
[optional requirement for international students] GRE >= 700/800 on old scale or >= 155 on new scale in quantitative reasoning, and >= 3.5 in the
written section (please include the percentile information),
[for international PhD applicants whose previous degrees from a recognized foreign institution where English is
not the language of instruction] TOEFL >= 600
(paper-based), >= 100 (internet-based; all
components >= 20 and writing >= 25), or IELTS >= 7.5.
be able to study as a full-time
graduate student.
Step #2: Send me an e-mail that includes
all the following information.
Why do you want to study in graduate school? What is your career
goal after getting a graduate degree?
Description of your research interests in one or two
paragraphs.
Evidence of proficient programming ability.
Optionally, you can show me some sample systems that were primarily
developed by you.
Transcripts of all previous degrees in PDFs.
Résumé that describes your academic/work history,
publication record, research contributions, past and current GPAs, and received awards
(if any) in PDFs.
Sample publication(s) that was primarily
written by you in English in PDFs. Summarize the research contributions of
the paper. Please indicate the impact factor if the article was published
in a journal, or the acceptance rate if the paper was published in a
conference proceeding.
[for international students]
GRE and TOEFL/IELTS scores in PDFs, if available.
Short-listed candidates will receive my reply within
five calendar days.
We can then arrange a meeting online or in person.
The meeting is not a test. The purpose of the meeting is to let you
better understand my research programs, and let me better understand your
academic background.
Then you can submit your application to
McGill uApply before the deadline.
The admission process is selective. If you meet the University's and
the School's preliminary requirements, then the Graduate Program Director
may pass your
file to me or any other faculty members in the School. After receiving your
file, I will further test your analytical, writing, and/or
programming skills, depending on the scope of the intended research topic. Completing my test does not imply getting admission. The final
decision is made by the University and the School.
As a graduate student, you probably have many questions
before "falling in love" with a research topic. The following
list of Q&A may provide a bit more information about my expectation and research
style. You may also take a look the publication records and current
affiliations of my former students further below.
Question: Why should I choose your team for PhD study?
Answer:
8/10 of my graduated PhDs are professors in North America and
Asia. Other became the upper management in large research institutes.
Their current positions are listed here.
Question: I am very interested in cybersecuity, but
my knowledge in this domain is limited.
Answer: You may consider taking this
online
graduate certificate program in cybersecurity. It can be completed
from 4 to 10 months.
Question: How to determine the research topic?
Answer: The research topic is determined based on your research interests,
your strengths, my research direction, research gaps in the field, and
source of funding.
Question: When can I
defend my thesis under your supervision?
Answer:
For doctoral student, I expect that we will publish at least 4 papers in reasonably good conferences or
journals before your defense. Of course, you have to complete
the university's requirements. Read
this
too.
Question: What do you mean by "reasonably good conferences or journals"?
Answer: Thomson Scientific maintains
a list of reasonably good
journals.
I am particularly interested in the following journals: IEEE TKDE, IEEE
TSC, IEEE TDSC, ACM TKDD, ACM TOPS, VLDBJ, PVLDB, DMKD, KAIS, DKE, and Information
Sciences.
Dr. Zaïane ranks some
CS
conferences. This
page
shows a list of data mining conferences. I am particularly interested in the following
data mining, machine learning, and security
conferences: SIGKDD, SIGMOD, ICDE, ICDM, EDBT, CIKM, SDM, AAAI, IJCAI,
S&P, etc.
Question: How do you work with students?
Answer: Students are my research collaborators. I expect we will work closely
together in an open-minded atmosphere without hierarchy.
We will meet in-person once a week. In a research project, you will
have the opportunity to formulate problem, design and implement the
proposed solutions, conduct experiments, and write papers with my
assistance. You will also have the opportunity to attend international
conferences. I do not "micromanage" students, but I do expect students
to make reasonable achievements in the study. The achievements of my
former students are listed in the table below.
Their current positions may give you some clue on your potential career
path.
Question: Are there any other requirements for
graduation?
Answer: Yes, there are four additional requirements: (i)
Do not give me any gift.
(ii) Work hard on your research. (iii) When you are sick, stay home. (iv) Help me review papers from top-ranked
research venues. Reviewing papers is part of the training.
Question: Do you provide financial support?
Answer: I will provide
financial support to my students who make
good progress in research, subject to the
availability of research fund and chosen research topic. So far, all my productive
students are well-funded.
Question: Do you encourage students to apply for prestigious scholarships,
e.g., NSERC postgraduate scholarship or FRQNT doctoral scholarship?
Answer: Yes, absolutely. I am happy to provide guidance and advice if needed.
Click here for more information.
Question: How much does it cost to live in Montreal?
Answer:
This website may provide some clue.
This article
provides more information for international students.
Current Students and Postdoctoral Fellows
Period
Name / Program
Detail
Sept. 2022 ~
Miles Q. Li
Postdoctoral Fellow (SIS),
McGill University
Publications: IJCNN INNS23
Supervisor: Fung
Jan. 2022 ~
Mohammadhossein Amouei
Ph.D. (IS), McGill University
Last known:
Publications:
Topic: Deep learning for firmware analysis
Chair:
Supervisor: B. Fung
Supervisory committee: S. Ding and I. Frissen
Examiner:
Examiner:
Examiner:
Examiner:
Jun. 2021 ~
Dec. 2024
Arezo Bodaghi
Ph.D. (ISE), Concordia University
Last known:
Publications: IEEE TCSS24, IEEE TSM24
Topic: Innovative Approaches for Real-Time Toxicity Detection in Social Media Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Chair: Emre Erkmen
Supervisors: K. Schmitt (CES) and B. Fung
Arms-length examiner: Hovhannes Harutyunyan
Examiner: Jeremy Clark
Examiner: Farnoosh Naderkhani
Examiner: Omair Shafiq (Carleton)
Publications:
Topic: Mining energy data
Chair:
Supervisor: B. Fung
Supervisory committee: Adriana Romero Soriano
and Steven Ding
Examiner:
Examiner:
Examiner:
Examiner:
Jan. 2023
~
Jun Meng
Ph.D. (IS), McGill University
Last known:
Publications:
Topic: Privacy-preserving cookies synchronization
Supervisor: B. Fung
Jan. 2025
~
Dawei Ni
Ph.D. (IS), McGill University
Last known:
Publications:
Topic:
Supervisors: B. Fung and S. Ding
Jan. 2022 ~
Mohd Saqib
Ph.D. (IS), McGill University
Last known:
Publications: 2 patents, ICDE24, ECML PKDD24, ACM CSUR24
Awards: FRQNT Doctoral Scholarhip in 2023 - ranked 9th in the competition [Programme B3, Comité, Groupe 2] in Quebec
Topic: Explainable AI for malware analysis
Chair:
Supervisor: B. Fung
Supervisory committee: S. Ding and M. Evans
Examiner:
Examiner:
Examiner:
Examiner:
Last known:
Senior Lecturer at McGill University, Canada
Award:
- FRQNT Postdoctoral Research Scholarship
Supervisor: Fung
Jun. 2012
~ Aug. 2013
Zhun Yu
Postdoctoral Fellow (BCEE)
Last known: Full Professor at Hunan University, China
Supervisor:
Haghighat (BCEE)
Co-supervisor: Fung
Former Ph.D. Students (15)
Period
Name / Program
Publication / Thesis / Award
May 2012 ~ Apr.
2014
Sept. 2019 ~ Dec. 2023
Osmud Rahman
Ph.D. (INDI), Concordia University
Last known: Associate Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
Publications: Sustainability23, TFDT21, ICCS21, Sustainability20, JOTI20,
and TFDT14
Topic: A Comprehensive Study of Sustainability, Fashion and Consumption: Understanding Consumer Behaviour and Clothing Evaluation from a Cross-national Perspective
Chair: Fariborz Haghighat (BCEE)
Supervisors: Benjamin Fung and Jamal Bentahar
Examiner: Chun Wang
Examiner: David Howes (Sociology and Anthropology)
Examiner: John Potvin (Art History)
Examiner: Yu-wang Chen (University of Manchester)
Sept. 2017 ~
Dec. 2023
Jwen-Fai Low
Ph.D. (IS), McGill University
Last known:
Publications: ESWA22, Access23, and KBS24
Topic: Automated Information Warfare: For and Against Saturation Attacks
Supervisor: Benjamin Fung
Co-supervisor: Farkhund Iqbal
Supervisory committee: Rebekah Willson
Pro-Dean: Timothy R. Moore (Geography)
Director or representative: Joan Bartlett
Internal examiner: France Bouthillier
External examiner: Tuan Le (NMSU)
Jan. 2016 ~ Apr. 2023
Malik Altakrori
Ph.D.(CS), McGill University
Last known:
Postdoctoral Researcher - NLP, IBM Research, UAE
Publications: ACM TALLIP18, EMNLP21, and EMNLP22
Award: FRQNT Doctoral Scholarship in 2019
Topic: Evaluation Techniques for Authorship Attribution and Obfuscation
Pro-Dean: Katherine Maurer (Social Work)
Chair: Xiao-Wen Chang
Supervisors: Jackie Cheung (CS) and Benjamin Fung
Supervisory committee: AJung Moon and David Meger
Internal examiner: Reihaneh Rabbany
External member: Fatiha Sadat (UQAM)
External examiner: Nicolas Papernot (UofT)
Sept. 2019 ~
Aug. 2022
Ying Sun
Ph.D. (Bldg), Concordia University
Last known: Assistant Professor, Qingdao University of Technology, China
Publications: ENB20, EGY22, ENB22, ENB22, EST24
Topic: Fairness-Aware Data-Driven Building Models (DDBMs) and Their Application in Model Predictive Controller (MPC)
Chair:
Supervisor: Fariborz Haghighat
(BCEE)
Co-supervsior: Benjamin Fung Chair: Yuhong Yan
Examiner: Anjali Awasthi (CIISE)
Examiner: Mazdak Nik-Bakht (BCEE)
Examiner: Liangzhu Wang (BCEE)
Examiner: Yinping Zhang (Tsinghua)
Sept. 2017 ~ Aug. 2022
Miles Q. Li
Ph.D. (CS), McGill University
Last known:
Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University
Publications: ICSOFT21, COSE21, JISA21, INS22, IJCNN22, CCIS22,
ICSOFT22
Award: Fellowship from SoCS and DFW (2 years)
Topic: Interpretable Machine Learning for Malware Detection and Adversarial Defense
Pro-Dean: Ignacio Cofone (Law)
Chair: Jin Guo
Supervisor: Benjamin Fung
Supervisory committee: Xujie Si and Danny Tarlow
School representative:
Internal member: Xujie Si
Internal examiner: Daniel Varro (ECE)
External examiner: Paria Shirani (Ryerson)
May 2013 ~ Nov. 2020
Rashid Hussain Khokhar
Ph.D. (ISE), Concordia University
Last known:
Assistant Professor, Algoma University,
Canada
Publications: Elsevier ECRA16, IEEE TEM21, and ACM TKDD23
Topic: Anonymizing and Trading Person-specific Data with Trust
Chair: C. Constantinides (CSE)
Supervisor: B. Fung
Co-supervisor: J. Bentahar (CIISE)
Examiner: J. Y. Yu (CIISE)
Examiner: A. Youssef (CIISE)
Examiner: Y. Liu (ECE)
Examiner: R. Dara (Guelph)
May 2016 ~ Nov. 2019
Milad Ashouri
Ph.D. (Bldg), Concordia University
Last known: Data Scientist, MRP, Canada
Publications: ENB18, ENB19, EGY20
Media:
Concordia News
Topic: Data Mining Frameworks for Energy Consumption Reduction of
Existing Buildings
Chair: A. K. Rathore
Supervisor: F. Haghighat
(BCEE)
Co-supervsior: B. Fung
Examiner: A. Hammad (CIISE)
Examiner: A. K. Athienitis (BCEE)
Examiner: F. Nasiri (BCEE)
Examiner: J. Zhai (University of Colorado Boulder)
Last known:
Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, McGill University, Canada
Publications: ACM SIGKDD16, IEEE CYB18, IEEE S&P19
Topic: Data
Mining and Machine Learning for Reverse Engineering
- FRQNT Doctoral Research Scholarship (Ranked second in the
competition [Programme B2, Comité 05A, Groupe 2] in Quebec)
- The Dean’s Graduate Award, McGill University (4 years)
- Second prize in
Hex-Rays Plug-in Contest 2015
- ACM SIGKDD 2016 Student Travel Award
- Best Poster Award at SERENE-RISC 2016
- 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 McGill School of Information Studies Graduate Excellence Fellowship (GEF)
- 2019 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) Student Travel
Award
Committee:
Supervisor: B. Fung Supervisory committee: C.-A. Julien (SIS)
and S. McIntosh (ECE)
Thesis examination:
Chair: K. Dalkir
Internal member: M. Evans
Internal examiner: J. Guo (CS)
External member: S. McIntosh (ECE)
External examiner: Natalia Stakhanova (University of Saskatchewan)
Jan. 2013
~ Apr. 2019
Sarah A. Alkhodair
Ph.D. (ISE), Concordia University
Last known:
Assistant Professor and Vice Chair of the Computer Engineering
Department, King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Publications: JASIST18, IPM20, and ACM TMIS20
Thesis: Assessing trust and veracity of data in social media
Committee:
Chair: R. Selmic (ECE)
Supervisor: B. Fung
Co-supervisor:
R. Dssouli
Examiner: Y. Zeng (CIISE)
Examiner: N. Bouguila (CIISE)
Examiner: O. Ait Mohamed (ECE)
Examiner: A. M. Boukadoum (UQAM)
Last known: Assocciate Professor in the Department of Computer
Science at Boise State University, Idaho, USA
Publications: IEEE CLOUD14, ACM CCS15, IEEE ICPADS15, Springer KAIS20, and
1 paper
under review
Thesis: Secure Protocols for Privacy-preserving Data Outsourcing,
Integration, and Auditing
- FRQNT Doctoral Research Scholarship
Committee:
Chair: S. Li (BCEE)
Supervisor: Fung Co-supervisor:Clark
Examiner: Hamou-Lhadj (ECE)
Examiner: L. Wang (CIISE)
Examiner: Eavis (CSSE)
Examiner: Stan Matwin (Dalhousie University)
Last known:
Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer
Science at University of Manitoba, Canada
Publications: EDBT09, ACM SIGKDD09, ACM CIKM09, IEEE IIT09, ACM
TKDD10, VLDBJ11, PVLDB11, ACM SIGKDD11, PETS12, INS13, JAMIA13, IEEE TDSC14
Thesis: Models and Algorithms for Private Data Sharing
Awards:
- The best student paper award at
ACM SIGKDD09.
-
NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF) (Ranked first out of 68
applications in committee 198, the Scholarships and Fellowships
Selection Committee for Computing Sciences)
-
NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) - Doctoral.
- FRQNT Doctoral Research Scholarship
(Ranked first in the competition [Programme B2, Comité 05A, Groupe 2] in Quebec)
- FRQNT Postdoctoral Fellowship (Ranked first in the competition
[Programme B3, Comité 05A, Groupe 2] in Quebec)
-
David J. Azrieli Graduate Fellowship (Ranked first in Concordia)
-
Concordia University Graduate Fellowship (25 recipients in Concordia)
-
Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science Graduate Scholarship (Ranked first in the department)
Committee:
Chair: Akbari (BCEE)
Supervisor: Fung Co-supervisor: Debbabi
Examiner: Mudur (CSE)
Examiner: Grogono (CSE)
Examiner: Schmitt (CES)
Examiner: Castelluccia (INRIA)
Last known: Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director at Zayed
University, United Arab Emirates
- Received Exemplary Merit Award for 2013-2014
- Received Zayed University Outstanding Faculty Award in 2015
Publications: DIIN08, DIIN09, DIIN10a, DIIN10b, ACM SAC10, WI12,
INS13
Thesis: Messaging Forensic
Framework for Cybercrime Investigation
Reported by
ENCS Magazine
Chair: Mulligan (BCEE)
Supervisors: Fung and Debbabi
Examiner: A. Agarwal (ECE)
Examiner: Ormandjieva (CSE)
Examiner: Suen (CSE)
Examiner: W. Cheung (HKBU)
Former Master's Students (50)
Period
Name / Program
Publication / Thesis / Award
May. 2024
~ Aug. 2024
Gauraang Malik
MISt (SIS) - INFS 689, McGill University
Last known:
Topic: Multimodal library for generative AI
Supervisor: B. Fung
Sept. 2021
~ Sept. 2023
Guillaume Breyton
M.Sc. (CS), McGill University
Last known: Manager, Site Reliability Engineers at Thales,
France
Publications: DRCN24
Topic: Neural Inference of Function Names in
Stripped Binaries
Award: Best Project Award in GeekPeek 2021 organized by the Canadian
Centre for Cyber Security (Ranked 1st out of 16 teams)
Supervisor: B. Fung Thesis examination:
Examiner: Paria Shirani, University of Ottawa
Sept. 2021
~ Aug. 2023
Dingtao (Josh) Hu
MISt (SIS) - project, McGill University
Last known:
Publications: CONF-IRM22, Sustainability23, GMC23, and SMA23
Topic: Text mining on fashion communication data
Supervisor: B. Fung
May 2023
~ Aug. 2023
Yue Liu
MISt (SIS) - INFS 689, McGill University
Last known:
Topic: Analyzing Twitter Data for Stance Classification
Supervisor: B. Fung
Sept. 2020
~ August 2023
Wael Alhashemi
M.Sc. (CS), McGill University
Last known:
Senior Software Developer at Cerence Inc., Canada
Topic: CSGraph2Vec: A Distributed Representation Learning approach for Assembly Functions
Supervisor: B. Fung Thesis examination:
Examiner: Dima Alhadidi, University of Windsor
Jan. 2023
~ Apr. 2023
Jay (Juan) Zhu
MISt. (SIS) - INFS 689, McGill University
Last known: Data Scientist, Xandar Kardian Inc., Canada
Topic: Pre-diagnosis of ARDS with Graph-based approaches
Supervisor: B. Fung
Jan. 2023
~ Apr. 2023
Ying Luo
MISt. (SIS) - INFS 689, McGill University
Last known: Data Analytics & IT Business Analyst Intern, Bombardier, Canada
Topic: Authorship analysis
Supervisor: B. Fung
Sept. 2021
~ Apr. 2023
Jesia Quader Yuki
MISt. (SIS) - project, McGill University
Last known:
Adjunct Faculty, Robertson College, Canada
Publications: 1 patent (filed), ICSOFT24
Topic: AsmDocGen: generating description for assembly functions
Supervisor: B. Fung
Sept. 2020
~ Dec. 2022
Andy Zhen
M.Sc. (CS), McGill University
Last known:
Topic: A semi-supervised deep learning solution to cell registration in video data from calcium imaging studies
Supervisors: T. P. Wong and B. Fung Thesis examination:
Internal examiner: Sylvain Williams
Sept. 2020
~ Apr. 2022
Jessalyn Hill
MISt (SIS) - project, McGill University
Last known: Market Intelligence Analyst, Dalhousie University, Canada
Topic: Hashtag hijack-tivism: The battle for control of the #WhiteLivesMatter and #ImpeachBidenNow hashtags on Twitter
Award:
-
SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) - Master's.
Supervisors: R. Willson and B. Fung
May 2021
~ Aug. 2021
Darragh Liam Feran
MISt. (SIS) - GLIS 689, McGill University
Last known:
Data Operations Manager, Ubisoft, Canada
Topic: Deep learning-based financial data regression modeling
Supervisor: B. Fung
May 2020
~ Aug. 2021
Ashita Diwan
M.Sc. (CS), McGill University
Last known: Data Scientist at Manulife, Canada
Publication: ICMLA22
Topic: Representation Learning for Vulnerability
Detection on Assembly Code
Supervisor: B. Fung
Thesis examination:
Internal member: D. Varro
Jun. 2020 ~
Aug. 2021
Bowen Yang
M.A.Sc. (Bldg), Concordia University
Last known:
PhD student at University of Alberta, Canada
Publication: e-Prime 2021
Topic: Real-Time Occupancy Prediction in Residential Building Using Data Mining Techniques
Chair: R. Zmeureanu
Supervisor: F. Haghighat
(BCEE)
Co-supervsior: B. Fung
Examiner: R. Zmeureanu
Examiner: M. Nik-Bakht
May 2021
~ Aug. 2021
Maria Tippler
MISt (SIS) - GLIS 689, McGill University
Last known: User Assistance Developer Specialist,
SAP, Canada
Topic: Machine learning for face mask detection
Supervisor: B. Fung
Jan. 2020
~ Apr. 2021
Yuzhong Deng
MISt. (SIS) - project
Last known: PhD Student at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Last known:
Data Analyst at BC Lottery Corporation, Canada
Topic 1: Mining fashion communication data
Topic 2: Cell registration model vetting
tool
Supervisor: B. Fung
Jan. 2020
~ Apr. 2021
Lydia Zhang
MISt. (SIS) - project
Last known:
Insights Analyst - Digital Product Analytics at HelloFresh, Canada
Topic: Spam Detection using BERT
Supervisor: B. Fung
May 2020
~ Aug. 2020
Cathy Zhao
MISt. (SIS) - GLIS 689
Last known:
Collaboration Tools Product Manag at Telus Health, Canada
Topic: Explainable AI Survey
Supervisor: B. Fung
May 2019
~ Aug. 2020
Qifan Wang
M.Sc. (CS) - thesis
Last known:
Topic: Health Information Network Representation Learning
Supervisor: B. Fung Thesis examination:
Examiner: R. Rabbany
Jan. 2019
~ Apr. 2020
Adrian
Donghan Liu
MISt (SIS) - project
Last known: Software Engineer in Machine Learning at The Globe and Mail, Canada
Topic:
Stress Determination using Mouse Hippocampus Activity
Jan. 2019
~ Apr. 2020
Yvan Wang
MISt (SIS) - project
Last known:
Topic:
Deep Learning Approaches to Authorship Verification
May 2019 ~ Apr. 2020
Zhaoqi (Zack) Xu
M.Sc. (CS) - project
Last known:
Software Engineer II at Fortinet, Ottawa, Canada
Topic: Deep learning-based cell registration method across multiple
sessions
Jun. 2018 ~ Nov. 2019
Evan
Haohan Bo
M.Sc. (CS) - thesis
Last known: Software Engineer at Coda, Canada
Publications:
NAACL-HLT21 and 1 conference paper under review
Thesis: Authorship Anonymization: Differentially-private Text Generation and Writing Style Transfer
Examiner: William L. Hamilton (CS)
Jun. 2018 ~ Aug. 2019
Jiaqi (Allison) Lu
M.Sc. (CS) - thesis
Last known:
Software Developer - Data Development at Squarepoint Capital, Canada
Publication: IEEE DSAA20
Thesis: Embedding for anomaly detection on health insurance claims
Examiner: Yue Li (CS)
May 2019
~ Aug. 2019
Dona Maria Absi
MISt (SIS) - project
Last known: Data Team Lead
at Zapier, Canada
Topic:
Factor analysis of students' performance in online education
Aug. 2018 ~ Aug. 2019
Shanqing (Alice) Zhu
M.Sc.
(CS) - project
Last known: Senior Software Engineer at Flexport, Canada
Topic: Deep learning on McGill theses
Jan. 2019
~ Apr. 2019
Yuanjun (Jessica) Liu
MISt.
(SIS) - GLIS 689
Last known:
Senior Data Engineer at Canadian Tire Corporation, Canada
Topic: Image recognition for identifying dangerous situations
Jan. 2019
~ Apr. 2019
Shubham Kalsi
MISt (SIS) - GLIS 689
Last known: Software Developer II at Lightspeed Commerce, Canada
Topic: Malware classification
Jan. 2019
~ Apr. 2019
Ismeet Kaur
MISt (SIS) - GLIS 689
Last known: Senior Developer at Simplus, Canada
Topic: Cross-topic authorship analysis
Jan. 2019
~ Apr. 2019
Christine Kim
MISt (SIS) - GLIS 689
Last known:
Business Intelligence Developer
at Ubisoft,
Canada
Topic: News popularity prediction
Jan. 2019
~ Apr. 2019
Lingwei (Linda) He
MISt (SIS) - GLIS 689
Last known: Research Analyst at FLAGDream, USA
Topic:
AI-powered solution for carbon footprint estimation on food
Jan. 2017
~ Apr. 2018
Ruowei Wang
MISt (SIS) - project
Last known: Senior Machine Learning Engineer atTwitter,
Canada
Topic:
Comparing different classifiers for sentiment analysis and topic
categorization
Sept. 2016
~ Apr. 2017
Zahra Saeedozakerin
MISt (SIS) - GLIS 689
Topic:
Potential security threats in cyber infrastructures of smart cities
Jan. 2013
~
Jan. 2017
Aref Mourtada
M.A.Sc. (ISS)
Last known: Professor and Co-Chair of
Computer Science at John Abbott College, Canada
Thesis: Mining Association Rules Events over Data Streams
Committee:
Chair: Assi
Supervisor: Debbabi
Co-supervisor: Fung Examiner: C. Wang
Examiner: Hamou-Lhadj (ECE)
Jan. 2016
~ Aug. 2016
Kathy Ka Pik Yu
MISt (SIS) - GLIS 689
Last known: Case Manager, eDiscovery Operations at RBC Royal Bank of Canada
Last known:
IT Specialist at Informatics Services Corporation (ISC), Iran
Publication: IEEE CLOUD14
Thesis: Privacy-Preserving Data-as-a-Service Mashups
Committee:
Chair: Ben Hamza
Supervisor: Fung
Examiner: Clark
Examiner: A. Agarwal (ECE)
Sept. 2011
~ Sept. 2013
Moein Ghasemzadeh
M.A.Sc. (ISS)
Last known:
Security
Engineer at SkyCope, Canada
Publication: Elsevier TRC14
Thesis: Privacy Preservation in High-dimensional
Trajectory Data for Passenger Flow Analysis
Committee:
Chair: Youssef
Supervisor: Fung Co-supervisor: Awasthi
Examiner: Mannan
Examiner: Abdi (ECE)
Sept. 2011
~ Apr. 2013
Rashid Hussain Khokhar
M.A.Sc. (ISS)
Last known:
Postdoc Fellow at University of New Brunswick, Canada
Publication: Elsevier JBI14
Thesis: Quantifying the Costs and Benefits of Privacy-Preserving
Health Data Publishing
Committee:
Chair: S. Li
Supervisor: Fung
Examiner: Awasthi
Examiner: Xie (MIE)
Last known:
Quality Assurance Specialist at CADlink Technology Corporation, Canada
Publication: Springer JIM15
Thesis: Classifying Tablet PC Models based on User Preferences from
Online Reviews
Chair: Schiffauerova
Supervisor: S. Li Co-supervisor:Fung
Examiner: C. Wang
Examiner: Aghdam (ECE)
May 2009
~ Sept. 2011
Gaby Dagher
M.A.Sc. (ISS)
Last known:
Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Boise
State University, Idaho, USA
Publication: Elsevier DKE13
Thesis: Semantic Document Clustering for Crime Investigation
Chair: L. Wang
Supervisor: Fung
Examiner: Bouguila
Examiner: Gopakumar (CES)
Sept. 2010
~ Aug. 2011
Hani AbuSharkh
M.A.Sc. (ISS)
Last known:
Software Developer at Noviflow and Lecturer at Vanier College, Canada
Publication: IEEE CSC11
Thesis: Border-based Anonymization Method for Sharing Private
Spatial-Temporal Data
Chair: Tian
Supervisor: Fung Examiner: S. Li
Examiner: Jahinuzzaman (ECE)
Sept. 2009
~ Aug. 2011
Abdur Rahman Mohd Abul Basher
M.A.Sc.
(ISS)
Last known:
Ph.D. student at the University of British Columbia, Canada
Publication: Springer KAIS13
Thesis: Mining Chat Logs to Extract Information about Authors and
Topics for Crime Investigation
Chair: L. Wang
Supervisor: Fung Examiner: Zeng
Examiner: Rilling (CSE)
-Power Corporation of Canada Graduate Fellowship
Jun. 2009
~ May 2011
Mirza A. Ahmed M.A.Sc. (ISS)
Last known:
Head of Americas, Security Operations Center & Incident Response Team at Novartis, USA
Thesis: Criminal Network Analysis from Chat Logs
Chair: Glitho
Supervisor: Fung
Examiner: L. Wang
Examiner: Schmitt (CES)
May 2009
~ Aug. 2010
Rabeah Al-Zaidy
M.A.Sc. (ISS)
Last known:
Assistant Professor at King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia
Publications: ACM SAC11 & DIIN12
Thesis: Criminal Network Mining and Analysis for Forensic
Investigations
Chair: Awasthi
Supervisor: Fung
Co-supervisor: Youssef
Examiner: S. Li
Examiner: Kabir (ECE)
Sept. 2007
~ Aug. 2009
Khalil Al-Hussaeni
M.A.Sc. (ISS)
Last known:
Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology - Dubai,
United Arab Emirates
Publication:
IEEE RFID09
Thesis: Preserving Data Privacy and Information Usefulness for RFID
Data Publishing
Chair: S. Li
Supervisor: Fung
Examiner: Hammad
Examiner: C. Wang (ECE)
Sept. 2007
~ Aug. 2009
Ming Cao
M.A.Sc. (ISS)
Last known:
China UnionPay, China
Publications:
ACM SAC09,
IEEE RFID09
Thesis: Privacy Protection of RFID Data Publishing
Chair: C. Wang
Supervisor: Fung
Examiner: Awasthi
Examiner: Desai (CSE)
Former Undergrduate Students (22)
Period
Name / Program
Publication / Topic
May 2024
~ Aug. 2024
William Rodzen-Staff
B.Sc. (CS) - COMP 400, McGill University
Last known:
Topic: Encoding untraceable texts transmitted through high frequency waves
Supervisor: B. Fung
Sept. 2023
~ Dec. 2023
Gaby Le Bideau
B.Sc. (Joint Honours) (Stats and CS) - COMP 400, McGill University
Last known:
Topic: In-depth Analysis of Software Behavior and Privacy Breaches
Supervisor: B. Fung
Apr. 2023
~ Jun. 2023
Nolwenn Treust
B.Sc. (Informatique), Université de Rennes 1
Topic: Authorship analysis
Jan. 2023
~ Apr. 2023
Younes Hourri
B.Sc. (CS) - COMP 396, McGill University
Last known:
Topic: Firmware analysis
Supervisor: B. Fung
Sept. 2022
~ Dec. 2022
Jing Han Sun
B.Sc. (Joint Honours) (Math and CS) - COMP 400, McGill University
Last known: Master's student at University of
Montreal and MILA
Publications:
Topic: Authorship analysis
Supervisor: B. Fung
Jul. 2021
~ Apr. 2022
Alexander Blostein B.Eng. in Honours in Software Engineering (ECE) - COMP 400, McGill University
Last known:
Software Engineer, Imprint, USA
Topic: Malware analysis
Supervisor: B. Fung
May 2021
~ Dec. 2021
Mikhail Baranchuk
B.Sc. in CS and Statistics, McGill University
Last known:
Master's student at Oxford University
Topic: Deep learning for authorship analysis (enhancing StyloMatrix)
Supervisor: B. Fung
Jun. 2021
~ Aug. 2021
Sarvasv Arora
B.A. in CS and Statistics, McGill University
Last known: Software Development Engineering Intern at Amazon, Canada
Topic: Deep learning for authorship analysis
(new model)
Supervisor: B. Fung
Jan. 2021
~ Aug. 2021
Tahseen Bin Taj
B.Sc. in CS, McGill University
Last known: Software Engineer, Secureworks, Canada
Topic: Malware analysis
Supervisor: B. Fung
Sept. 2020
~ Apr. 2021
Parastoo Gol Mohammadi
B.Sc. in CS and Psychology, McGill University
Last known: Junior Software Developer at DeFiSafety, Canada
Topic: Identifying neural firing ensembles
Supervisor: B. Fung
Sept. 2020
~
Apr. 2021
Andrei Guevorkian
B.Eng. in ECE, McGill University
Last known:
Product Analyst at Just Eat Takeaway.com, Canada
[Topic 1] Semantic, context analysis and visualization of McGill theses data using word2vec; [Topic 2] Retrieving similar tweets for crime investigation via representation learning
- Computational Research Fellowship from McGill Library
Jan. 2017
~ Apr. 2018
Tyler Kolody
MISt (SIS), McGill University
Last known: Chief Scientist, Synthminds.AI, USA
Publication: WEF17
Topic: Matching patient records with
relevant research using word vectors
Sept. 2016
~ Aug. 2017
Trevor Braun
M.A.
(Economics),
McGill University
Last known:
Senior Data Scientist at Instacart, USA
Publication:
Elsevier SCS18
Topic: Security and Privacy Challenges in Smart Cities
Sept. 2016
~ Feb. 2017
Daniel Tweed
M.Eng. (ECE), McGill University
Last known: Software Engineering Manager at Hinge Health, Canada
Topic: Demonstration of a Secure Credential Transfer Protocol [Software
on GitHub]
Nov. 2014
~ Jun. 2015
Hailey Wyman
Graduate Diploma (Communication Studies), Concordia University
Last known: User Services Librarian, Seneca College
Topic: Government and Cloud Computing: A Policy Perspective
Jun. 2014
~ Mar. 2015
Jimin Guo,
PhD Student (Experimental Medicine), McGill University
Last known:
Research Officer at National Research Council of Canada
Publication: Springer ISF17
Topic: Revealing determinant factors for early breast cancer recurrence
Visiting
Professors / Scholars (6)
Period
Name / Status
Home Agency
Apr. 2017
~ Jul. 2017
Dr. Qing Bao (Visiting Scholar)
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University
Apr. 2016
~ Jul. 2016
Dr. William K. Cheung (Visiting Professor)
Associate Professor and Head,
Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University
Aug. 2015
~ Sept. 2015
Dr. Yan Bai (Visiting Professor)
Associate Professor,
University of Washington Tacoma, USA
Apr. 2013
~ May 2013
Dr.
Siu Man (Carrie) Lui (Visiting Scholar)
Senior
Lecturer,
James Cook University, Australia
Jun. 2012
~ Feb. 2013
Dr. Yan'an Jin (Visiting Scientist)
Lecturer,
Hubei University of Economics, China
Jul. 2012
~ Aug. 2012
Dr. Xiangliang Zhang (Visiting Scientist)
Assistant Professor, King Abdullah University of Science and
Technology, Saudi Arabia
I also served in the following
supervisory/examining committees.
Name
Program
Thesis (Role)
Date
Rahma Nouaji
(Supervisor: Oana Balmau)
Ph.D.
(CS), McGill University
TBD (Supervisory
Committee Member)
Jan. 2024 ~
Sogol Masoumzadeh
(Supervisors: Lili Wei, Daniel Varro and Shane McIntosh)
Ph.D.
(ECE), McGill University
TBD (Supervisory
Committee Member)
Oct. 2020 ~
Jeffrey Blum
(Supervisor: Jeremy Cooperstock)
Ph.D.
(ECE), McGill University
TBD (Supervisory
Committee Member)
Jan. 2014 ~
Haolun Wu
(Supervisor: Xue Liu)
Ph.D.
(CS), McGill University
TBD (Supervisory Committee Member)
Jan. 2022 ~
Minghan Li
(Supervisor: Jimmy Lin)
Ph.D. (CS), University of Waterloo
Integrating Efficient and Robust Neural Information Retrieval
Systems with Large Language Models (Extneral
Examiner)
Aug. 2024
Morgannis Graham
(Supervisor: Joan Bartlett)
Ph.D.
(SIS), McGill University
The pragmatic archivist: An exploration of information management in K-12 independent schools (Department
Deputy)
Jun. 2024
Amin Azmoodeh
(Supervisor: Ali Dehghantanha)
Ph.D. (CS), University of Guelph
A Framework to Enhance Security and Safety of Deep Learning Models Against Out-of-Distribution Examples (Extneral
Examiner)
Jan. 2024
Sitao Luan
(Supervisors: Xiao-Wen Chang and Doina Precup)
Ph.D.
(CS), McGill University
Addressing the Limitations of Graph Neural Networks
on Node-level Tasks (Pro-Dean)
Nov. 2023
Jonathan Arsenault
(Supervisor: James R. Forbes)
Ph.D.
(ME), McGill University
Quantitative Analysis of Hockey Using Spatiotemporal
Tracking Data (Pro-Dean)
Nov. 2023
Martin Pömsl
(Supervisor: Jackie Cheung)
M.Sc.
(CS), McGill University
Evaluating the Integration of Pretrain-Time and
Inference-Time Knowledge in LLM-based NLU
Systems (External Examiner)
Nov. 2023
Fatima Zahra Errounda
(Supervisor: Yan Liu)
Ph.D.
(ECE), Concordia University
Adaptive Differential Privacy for Decentralized Mobility Data Sharing and Forecasting (External Examiner)
Oct. 2023
Jikun Kang
(Supervisors: Xue Liu)
Ph.D. (CS),
McGill University
Enhancing Deep Reinforcement Learning: Methods and Applications for Real-world Challenges (External Examiner)
Oct. 2023
Nikolai Jannik Podlesny
(Supervisors: Christoph Meinel and Anne Kayem)
Ph.D. (Digital Engineering), Hasso Plattner Institut, University of
Potsdam, Germany
Quasi-Identifier Discovery to Prevent
Privacy Violating Inferences in Large
High Dimensional Datasets (External Examiner)
Aug. 2021 ~ Jan. 2023
Vera Granikov
(Supervisors: France Bouthillier and Pierre Pluye)
Ph.D.
(SIS), McGill University
Factors and Outcomes of Collaborative Information Monitoring (Chair
representative)
Dec. 2022
Yue Dong
(Supervisor: Jackie Cheung)
Ph.D.
(CS), McGill University
Text Summarization beyond Seq2Seq Models for Salience, Faithfulness, and Factuality (Supervisory Committee)
Exploring
Mobile Civic Technologies in Brazil - A Thematic Analysis (Internal
examiner)
Apr. 2022
Jing Rao
(Supervisors: Raja Sengupta and Griet Vankeerberghen)
M.Sc.
(Geography), McGill University
Using Dynamic Web Maps and Agent-Based Models to Explore Facets of Western Han History (Internal Examiner)
Mar. 2022
Jad Kabbara
(Supervisor: Jackie Cheung)
Ph.D.
(CS), McGill University
Computational investigations of presupposition effects in language (Internal Examiner)
Mar. 2022
Maziar Gomrokchi
(Supervisor: Doina Precup)
Ph.D.
(CS), McGill University
On Privacy for Reinforcement Learning Algorithms (Internal
Examiner)
Jan. 2022
Anton Gladyr
(Supervisor: John Kildea)
M.Sc.
(CS), McGill University
Design and development of a secure and patient-controlled system for data donation in the Opal patient portal app (Examiner)
Dec. 2021
Keheliya Gallaba
(Supervisor: Shane McIntosh)
Ph.D.
(ECE), McGill University
Improving the
Robustness and Efficiency of Continuous Integration and Continuous
Deployment (Supervisory Committee Member)
2016 ~
Dec. 2021
Afroza Sultana
(Supervisor: Karyn Moffatt)
Ph.D.
(SIS), McGill University
Understanding age-related selection difficulties with touch input (Supervisory
Committee Member & Internal
Examiner)
2015 ~ Dec. 2021
Suzanne Moody
(Supervisors: Cecily Raynor and Andrew Piper)
M.A.
(DH), McGill University
Modelling sentiment and topics in letters written by 19th century immigrants in North America (Supervisory Committee Member)
Sept. 2018 ~
Aug. 2021
Chong Xiao Wang
(Supervisor: Wee Peng Tay)
Ph.D.
(EEE), Nanyang Technological University
Privacy
Preservation for Linear and Learning Based Inference Systems (External Examiner)
Jun. 2021
Chen Ma
(Supervisor: Xue Liu)
Ph.D.
(CS), McGill University
Towards Effective Recommendation: Neural Networks and Adaptive Learning (Internal Examiner)
Jun. 2021
Jason Runge
(Supervisor: Radu Zmeureanu)
Ph.D.
(Bldg), Concordia University
Short-term Forecasting for the Electrical Demand of Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Systems (External Examiner)
Apr. 2021
Banafsheh Asadi
(Supervisor: C. A. Julien)
Ph.D.
(SIS), McGill University
Comparison of social tags and controlled vocabulary terms assigned to images: A feasibility study of computer-assisted image indexing (Supervisory Committee Member)
2016 ~
Apr. 2021
Koffi
Eddy Ihou
(Supervisor: Nizar Bouguila)
Ph.D.
(ISE), Concordia University
Extensions to the Latent Dirichlet Allocation Topic Model
Using Flexible Priors (External Examiner)
Dec. 2020
Seyedeh Maryam Sharifi Rad
(Supervisor: Ching Y. Suen)
Ph.D.
(CS), Concordia University
PrFA: A Framework for Image-based Counterfeit Coin Detection
Using Pruned Fuzzy Associative Classifier
(Examiner)
Oct. 2020
Joseph Rafla
(Supervisor: Stefan Sinclair)
M.A.
(DH), McGill University
Visualizing language in Hollywood screenplays (Supervisory Committee Member)
Sept. 2016 ~
April 2020
Qinglong Wang
(Supervisor: Xue Liu)
Ph.D.
(CS), McGill University
Towards adversarial robustness of feed-forward
and recurrent neural networks
(External Examiner)
Dec.
2019
Puneet Kaur Sidhu
(Supervisors: G. Mussbacher and S. McIntosh)
M.Eng.
(ECE), McGill University
A Reusable
Concern for Travis CI Specifications (Examiner)
Jul. 2019
Fiona Vanessa Allum-Bordage
(Supervisor: E. Grundberg)
Ph.D.
(Human Genetics), McGill University
Capturing epigenomes at high-resolution for
insight into genome function and metabolic disease (Pro-Dean)
June. 2019
Qing Zou
(Supervisor: E. Park)
Ph.D.
(SIS), McGill University
The Representation of Archival Descriptions: An Ontological Approach (Supervisory
Committee Member & Internal
Examiner)
Apr. 2019
Dang Pham Hai Nguyen
(Supervisor: Wei Luo)
Ph.D.
(IT), Deakin University, Australia
Representation Learning in Complex Data via Pattern Discovery (External
Examiner)
Jul. 2018
Mohammad Gias Uddin
(Supervisors: F. Khombh and J. Waldispühl)
Ph.D.
(CS), McGill University
Automatic Summarization of API
Artifacts from Informal Documentation (Internal
Examiner)
Mar. 2018
Muhammad Yousuf Ahmad
(Supervisor: Bettina Kemme)
Ph.D.
(CS), McGill University
Adapting
Distributed Key-Value Datastores for Online Transaction Processing
(External Member)
Sept. 2017
Augusto Gabriel Vigliensoni-Martin
(Supervisor: Ichiro Fujinaga)
Ph.D.
(Music Research), McGill University
Evaluating
the Performance Improvement of a Music Recommendation Model by Using
User-Centric Features (Examiner)
Mar. 2017
Viet Huu Huynh
(Supervisor: Dinh Phung)
Ph.D.
(IT), Deakin University, Australia
Towards
Scalable Bayesian Nonparametric Methods for Data Analytics (External
Examiner)
Mar. 2017
Mingyuan Xia
(Supervisor: Xue Liu)
Ph.D.
(CS), McGill University
Dynamic
Analyses for Privacy and Performance in Mobile Applications
(External Member)
Nov. 2016
Chang Xu
(Supervisor: Jie Zhang)
Ph.D.
(SCSE), Nanyang Technological University
Towards Characterization and Detection of Collusive Reputation Manipulation in Crowdsourced Opinions
(External Examiner)
Oct. 2016
Qing Bao
(Supervisor: William Cheung)
Ph.D.
(CS), Hong Kong Baptist University
Inferring
Diffusion Models with Structural and Behavioral Dependency in Social
Networks (External Examiner)
Aug. 2016
Shafigh Parsazad
(Supervisor: S. Abdi)
M.A.Sc.
(ECE), Concordia University
Fast Simulation of Programmable Network Forwarding Plane Devices (External Examiner)
Jul. 2016
Warda El Kholy
(Supervisors: Bentahar & Dssouli)
Ph.D.
(ISE), Concordia University
Formal
Specification and Automatic Verification of Multi-Agent Conditional
Commitments and their Applications (Internal Examiner)
Apr. 2016
Mina Khalili
(Supervisor: L. Wang)
M.A.Sc.
(ISS), Concordia University
Monitoring and Improving Managed Security Services in-
side Security Operation Center (Internal Examiner)
A Forensic Web Log Analysis
Tool: Techniques and Implementation (Chair)
Jun. 2011
Ninus Khamis
(Supervisors:
Rilling & Witte)
M.A.Sc. (SOEN), Concordia University
Assessing the Quality Factors found in
In-line Documentation Written in Natural Language:
The JavadocMiner (External examiner)
Apr. 2011
Sinha Prosenjit
(Supervisor: Debbabi)
M.Comp.Sc.
(CS), Concordia University
Botnet Reverse Engineering and Call Sequence Recovery (Internal examiner)
Feb. 2011
Elmira Rajinia
(Supervisor: S. Li)
M.A.Sc.
(QSE), Concordia University
Estimation of the Scope of Change Propagation in Object-Oriented Programming (Internal examiner)
Jan. 2011
Jialin Cheng
(Supervisor: Tian)
M.A.Sc.
(QSE), Concordia University
Condition Based Maintenance Optimization for Multi-Component Systems Based on Neural Network Health Prediction (Chair)
Dec. 2010
Li Deng
(Supervisor: L. Wang)
M.A.Sc.
(ISS), Concordia University
Simulatable Auditing in
Micro-Databases (Internal examiner)
Oct. 2010
Mazharul Huq Chowdhury
(Supervisor: Kabir)
M.A.Sc.
(ECE), Concordia University
Electrical Properties of Grain Boundaries in Polycrystalline Materials (External examiner)
Sep. 2010
Mohamed Rasslan
(Supervisor:
Youssef)
Ph.D.
(ECE), Concordia University
Analysis and Design of
Protocols for Secure and Private Communications (Internal examiner)
Sep. 2010
Pei Pei Shi
(Supervisors:
Youssef & Zhu)
M.A.Sc.
(ISS), Concordia University
Methods and Techniques to Protect Against Shoulder Surfing and Phishing Attacks (Internal examiner)
Aug. 2010
Nan Song
(Supervisor:
J. Zhang)
M.A.Sc.
(ECE), Concordia University
Optical Single-Sideband
Modulation with Tunable Optical Carrier to Sideband Ratio in Radio
over Fiber Systems (External examiner)
Jun. 2010
Ahmad Moazin
(Supervisor:
Bentahar)
M.A.Sc.
(QSE), Concordia University
Incentive-Based Reputation
of Web Services Communities (Internal examiner)
Jan. 2010
Mohamed Layouni
(Supervisor: C. Claude)
Ph.D.
(CS), McGill University
Privacy-Preserving Personal Information Management (External examiner)
Dec. 2009
Rakesh Saini
(Supervisors:
Hammad & Zhu)
M.A.Sc.
(ISS), Concordia University
Data Protection of
RFID-Based Distributed Storage (Internal examiner)
Aug. 2009
Jing Li
(Supervisor:
C. Wang)
M.A.Sc.
(ECE), Concordia University
Multiple-filtering-process for the Edge Detection of High-dynamic-range Images (External
examiner)
May 2009
Khaled Ghoneim
(Supervisor:
Bentahar)
M.A.Sc.
(QSE), Concordia University
Adaptable Interaction Protocol for Multi-Agent-based Supply Network (Chair)
Apr. 2009
Wei Li
(Supervisor:
L. Wang)
M.A.Sc.
(ISS), Concordia University
Distributed Authorization in
Loosely Coupled Data Federation (Internal examiner)
Feb. 2009
Ola Amayri
(Supervisor:
Bouguila)
M.A.Sc.
(QSE), Concordia University
On Email Spam Filtering
Using Support Vector Machine (Internal examiner)
Jan. 2009
Nadia Belblidia (Supervisor:
Debbabi)
Ph.D.
(ECE), Concordia University
An Aspect Oriented Approach
for Security Hardening: Semantic Foundations (External examiner)
Dec. 2008
Surath Aebtarm
(Supervisor: Bouguila)
M.A.Sc.
(QSE), Concordia University
Defects Control Charts for
High-Quality Processes (Chair)
Dec. 2008
Wen Ming Liu (Supervisors:
L. Wang & Youssef)
M.A.Sc.
(ISE), Concordia University
On Applications of Simulated
Annealing to Cryptology (Chair)
Dec. 2008
Brian Coffey
(Supervisor:
Haghighat)
M.A.Sc.
(Bldg), Concordia University
A Development and Testing
Framework for Simulation-Based Supervisory Control With Application
to Optimal Zone Temperature Ramping Demand Response Using a Modified
Genetic Algorithm (External examiner)
Jun. 2008
Abdullah Abbas
(Supervisor:
Ben Hamza)
M.A.Sc.
(QSE), Concordia University
Topological Approaches to 3D
Mesh Watermarking (Internal examiner)
Apr. 2008
Useful information for my current
graduate students:
Some fundamental privacy papers (read them in order):
L. Sweeney. k-Anonymity: a model for protecting
privacy. International Journal on Uncertainty, Fuzziness and
Knowledge-based Systems, volume 10, pages 557-570, 2002.
N. Mohammed, B. C. M. Fung, P. C. K. Hung,
and C. Lee. Anonymizing healthcare data: a case study on the
blood transfusion service. In Proceedings of the 15th ACM
SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data
Mining (SIGKDD), pages 1285-1294, Paris, France: ACM Press,
June 2009.
A. Machanavajjhala, D. Kifer, J. Gehrke, and M.
Venkitasubramaniam. l-Diversity: Privacy Beyond k-Anonymity.
ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 1(1),
March 2007.
R. C. Wong, A. W. C. Fu, K. Wang, K., and J.
Pei. Minimality attack in privacy preserving data publishing. In
Proceedings of the 33rd international Conference on Very
Large Data Bases (Vienna, Austria, September 23 - 27, 2007).
Very Large Data Bases. VLDB Endowment, 543-554.
Differential Privacy:
Programming with Differential Privacy: An
extremely nice one page history of private data analysis
starting from 1885. A must-read paper for anybody working
in the domain.
An Ad Omnia Approach to Defining and
Achieving Private Data Analysis: This paper provides an
easy explanation of
differential privacy.
Mechanism Design via Differential
Privacy: Section 3 (in particular Section 3.1) explains
exponential mechanism.
Privacy Integrated Queries: Section 2.4
explains the composition properties of differential privacy.
N. Mohammed, R. Chen, B. C. M. Fung, and P.
S. Yu. Differentially private data release for data mining. In
Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGKDD International Conference
on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD), pages
493-501, San Diego, CA, August 2011.
R. Chen, N. Mohammed, B. C. M. Fung, B. C.
Desai, and L. Xiong. Publishing set-valued data via differential
privacy. The Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB),
4(11):1087-1098, August 2011.
The equipment in the lab is only for research and academic
purposes, not for any other purposes such as downloading movies and
playing video games.
The network traffic is closely monitored by the university to identify any
abnormal, suspicious activities. Also, you should not let
other people use your computer account or access card. Please keep
the room and your desk reasonably clean. Finally, I would like to
remind you to abide by McGill's Code of Academic Conduct.