Recruitment
I am recruiting well-motivated graduate students with
IS/CS/IT/Engineering background in the
SIS PhD program,
SoCS PhD program,
and
SIS
Master's program (project option). The candidates should have
strong interests in the research areas of data
mining, deep learning, information security,
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.
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share the same value of Fundamental Freedoms listed in the
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms,
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self-motivated with independent problem solving
skills,
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good writing skills,
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proficient in object-oriented programming and design, and
familiar with Java and Python,
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knowledge of data science, TensorFlow, MapReduce, NoSQL, etc. will be
an asset,
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GPA >= 3.2/4.0 in
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.)
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[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),
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[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.
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be able to study as a full-time
graduate student.
Step #2: Send me an e-mail that includes
all the following information.
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Why do you want to study in graduate school? What is your career
goal after getting a graduate degree?
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Description of your research interests in one or two
paragraphs.
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Evidence of proficient programming ability.
Optionally, you can show me some sample systems that were primarily
developed by you.
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Transcripts of all previous degrees in PDFs.
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Résumé that describes your academic/work history,
publication record, research contributions, past and current GPAs, and received awards
(if any) in PDFs.
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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.
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[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.
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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.
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Question: Which program I should apply for?
Answer: Please submit your application to the PhD
program of the
School of
Information Studies, the
PhD program of
the School of Computer Science, the
Master program (project option) of the School of Information
Studies, or the
Master
program (thesis option) of the School of Computer Science.
Students with IS/CS/IT/Engineering background are welcome to apply.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 |
Jun. 2021 ~ |
Arezo Bodaghi
Ph.D. (ISE), Concordia University
Last known:
|
Publications: IEEE TCSS23, IEEE TSM24
Topic: Toxic text detection
Chair:
Supervisors: K. Schmitt (CES) and B. Fung
Supervisory committee:
Examiner: |
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: |
Sept. 2016 ~ |
Angel Lam
Ph.D. (IS), McGill University
Last known:
|
Publications:
Topic: Mining energy data
Chair:
Supervisor: B. Fung
Supervisory committee: Adriana Romero Soriano
and Steven Ding
Examiner:
Examiner:
Examiner:
Examiner: |
Sept. 2022
~ |
Jun Meng
Ph.D. (IS), McGill University
Last known:
|
Publications:
Topic: Privacy-preserving cookies synchronization
Supervisor: B. Fung |
Jan. 2022 ~ |
Mohd Saqib
Ph.D. (IS), McGill University
Last known:
|
Publications:
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: |
Jan. 2023
~ |
Sarah Bellemare
M.Sc. (CS), McGill University
Last known:
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Publications:
Topic: Privacy-preserving cookies synchronization
Supervisor: B. Fung
Thesis examination:
Internal examiner: |
Jan. 2023
~ |
Chia-Hui Tsai
MISt (SIS) - Project, McGill University
Last known:
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Publications:
Topic:
Disinformation detection
Supervisor: B. Fung |
Jan. 2023
~ |
Yutang Song
MISt (SIS) - Project, McGill University
Last known:
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Publications:
Topic: Authorship verification alignment
Supervisor: B. Fung |
Sept. 2021
~ |
Scarlett Xu
M.Sc. (CS), McGill University
Last known:
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Publications:
Topic: Social networks alignment
Supervisor: B. Fung
Thesis examination:
Chair:
Internal member:
Internal examiner:
External member:
External examiner: |
Sept. 2023
~ Dec. 2023 |
Gaby Le Bideau
B.Sc. (Joint Honours) (Stats and CS) - COMP 400, McGill University
Last known: |
Publications:
Topic: Social apps reverse engineering
Supervisor: B. Fung |
Former Postdoctoral Fellows (7)
Period |
Name / Program |
Detail |
Sept. 2021 ~ Apr. 2023 |
Samaneh Mahdavifar
Postdoctoral Fellow (SIS),
McGill University
Last known:
Machine Leaning DevOps Engineer at CARFAX, Canada |
Publications:
Supervisor: Fung |
Aug. 2019
~ Jul. 2020
Apr. 2021 ~ Mar. 2022 |
Adel Abusitta
Postdoctoral Fellow / Research Associate (SIS),
McGill University
Last known: Assistant Professor at Polytechnique Montreal,
Canada |
Publications: JISA21, IJCNN21, SpliTech22, IoT23
Supervisor: Fung |
Apr. 2021 ~ Mar. 2022 |
Alip Mohammed
Research Associate (SIS),
McGill University
Last known: SDET/Test Analyst at Hexaware Technologies, Canada |
Publications: 2 book chapters
in encyclopedias
Supervisor: Fung |
Nov. 2018
~ Apr. 2019 |
Eléonore Fournier-Tombs
Postdoctoral Fellow (SIS)
Last known:
Head of Anticipatory Action and Innovation, Centre for Policy
Research, United Nations University, USA |
Supervisor: Fung |
Jan. 2015
~ Aug. 2015 |
Latifa Guerrouj
Research Associate (SIS)
Last known:
Associate Professor at L'École de technologie supérieure (ETS) de Montréal,
Canada |
Publications: Springer SQJQ17, IEEE ASE15
Supervisor: Fung |
Jan. 2013
~ Aug. 2013 |
Amin Ranj Bar
Postdoctoral Fellow (CIISE)
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
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
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) |
Sept. 2014
~ Apr. 2019 |
Steven H. H. Ding
Ph.D. (IS), McGill University
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) |
Sept. 2009
~ Apr. 2017 |
Khalil Al-Hussaeni
Ph.D. (ECE),
Concordia University
Last known:
Assistant Professor of Computing at Rochester Institute of Technology - Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
Publications: Elsevier DKE14, Springer KAIS18, and Elsevier COMNET18
Thesis: Preserving Privacy in High-Dimensional Data Publishing
Committee:
Chair: Mulligan (BCEE)
Supervisor: Fung
Co-supervisor: Dssouli
Examiner: L. Wang (CIISE)
Examiner: Mannan (CIISE)
Examiner: Eavis (CSSE)
Examiner: Carson Leung (University of Manitoba) |
Sept. 2011
~ Dec. 2015 |
Gaby Dagher
Ph.D. (CS),
Concordia University
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) |
Sept. 2008
~ Sept. 2012 |
Rui Chen
Ph.D. (CS),
Concordia University
Last known: Engineering Director of AI /
Principal Research Scientist in Samsung Research America,
Mountain View, USA |
Publications: ACM CSUR10, ACM SIGKDD11, PVLDB11, IEEE RFID11, ACM
SIGKDD12, ACM CCS12, INS13, JAMIA13, VLDBJ14
Thesis: Toward Privacy in High-Dimensional Data Publishing
Awards:
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NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) - Doctoral.
- FRQNT Doctoral Research Scholarship
(Ranked second in the competition [Programme B2, Comité 05A, Groupe 2] in Quebec)
- ACM SIGKDD'11 Travel Award
- ACM SIGKDD'12 Travel Award
- FRQNT Postdoctoral Fellowship
Committee:
Chair: Kishk (ECE)
Supervisor: Fung
Co-supervisor: Desai
Examiner: Constantinides (CSE)
Examiner: Witte (CSE)
Examiner: Valizadeh (ECE)
Examiner: Dongwon Lee (Penn State University) |
Sept. 2008
~ Jul. 2012 |
Noman Mohammed
Ph.D. (CS),
Concordia 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)
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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)
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Concordia University Graduate Fellowship (25 recipients in Concordia)
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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) |
Sept. 2008
~
Mar. 2012 |
Zhun Yu
Ph.D. (Bldg), Concordia
Last known: Professor at Hunan University, China |
Publications: ENB10, ENB11, EGY11, ENB12, BUIL13
Thesis: Mining Hidden Knowledge from Measured Data for Improving Building Energy Performance
Chair: Gouw (BCEE)
Supervisor: Haghighat
(BCEE)
Co-supervsior: Fung
Examiner: Ghaly (MIE)
Examiner: Zmeureanu (BCEE)
Examiner: Chen (BCEE)
Examiner: Inard (Université La Rochelle) |
Jan. 2006
~ Jan. 2011 |
Farkhund Iqbal
Ph.D. (CS), Concordia
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 (49)
Period |
Name / Program |
Publication / Thesis / Award |
Sept. 2021
~ Sept. 2023 |
Guillaume Breyton
M.Sc. (CS), McGill University
Last known:
|
Publications:
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
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 |
Publications:
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), 1 conference
paper (under review)
Topic: AsmDocGen: generating description for aassembly functions
Supervisor: B. Fung |
Sept. 2020
~ Dec. 2022 |
Andy Zhen
M.Sc. (CS), McGill University
Last known:
|
Publications:
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:
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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 |
Publications:
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
|
Topic: Application of Dangerous Situation Recognition on
Home Robot: Fall Detection Based on TEMI Robot
Supervisor: B. Fung |
Jan. 2020
~ Apr. 2021 |
Junjie Wu
MISt. (SIS) - project
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 at
Twitter,
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 |
Topic: Data Mining on Fashion Communications |
Sept. 2012
~ Apr. 2014 |
Steven
H. H. Ding
M.A.Sc. (ISS)
Last known:
Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, McGill University, Canada |
Publication: ACM TISSEC15
Thesis: Authorship Identification and Writeprint Visualization
Committee:
Chair: Assi
Supervisor: Fung
Co-supervisor: Debbabi
Examiner: Youssef
Examiner: Grogono (CSE) |
Jan. 2012
~ Sept. 2013 |
Mahtab Arafati
M.A.Sc. (ISS)
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) |
Sept. 2010
~ Apr. 2013 |
Mohammad Reza Farhadi
M.A.Sc. (ISS)
Last known:
Senior Machine Engineer at Apple, USA |
Publications: STO-MP-IST12, IEEE SERE14, Elsevier DIIN15
Thesis: Assembly Code Clone Detection for Malware Binaries
Committee:
Chair: Zeng
Supervisor: Fung
Co-supervisor: Debbabi
Examiner: Glitho
Examiner: Paquet (CSE) |
Sept. 2010
~ Jan. 2013 |
Jiaming Li
M.A.Sc. (ISS)
Last known:
Advisory Software Developer at IBM Canada |
Publications: IEEE/ACM ASONAM13, Springer LNSN15
Thesis: Privacy-Preserving Social Network Data Publishing for
Frequent Sharing Patterns
Committee:
Chair: Tian
Supervisor: Fung
Examiner: Youssef
Examiner: Suen (CSE) |
May 2011
~
May 2012 |
Michael Schmid
M.A.Sc. (ISS)
Last known:
AEM Developer, Concordia University, Canada |
Publication: Elsevier DIIN15
Thesis: Computer-Aided Writeprint Modelling for Cybercrime Investigations
Chair: Bouguila
Supervisor: Fung
Examiner: Mannan
Examiner: Abdi (ECE) |
Jan. 2010
~
May 2012 |
Kamrun Nahar
M.A.Sc. (QSE)
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 (20)
Period |
Name / Program |
Publication / Topic |
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: Technical Writer at KNEWPLAY, Canada
|
ECSE 458D1 Capstone Design Project (3 credits) ECSE 458D2 Capstone
Design Project (3 credits)
Topic: Static and Dynamic Malware Analysis and
Classification
Supervisor: B. Fung |
Sept. 2020
~
Apr. 2021 |
Heehyun Aaron
Jang
B.Eng. in ECE, McGill University
Last known: Software Developer in Government of Canada
|
ECSE 458D1 Capstone Design Project (3 credits) ECSE 458D2 Capstone
Design Project (3 credits)
Topic: Static and Dynamic Malware Analysis and
Classification
Supervisor: B. Fung |
Apr. 2020
~ Jun. 2020 |
Nolan Gloux
B.Sc. (Informatique), Université de Rennes 1 |
Topic: Machine learning on assembly code |
Sept. 2019
~ Apr. 2020 |
Jenny Long
B.Sc. (Physics & CS),
McGill University
Last known:
M.Sc. Associate (Software Strategy Group (SSG) Practice) at EY-Parthenon, USA |
Publications: SOBP21 ans JPN22
Topic: Neural Signal Firings |
Jul. 2019
~ Aug. 2019 |
Shuyao
(Gloria Tan
B.Sc. (CS), Hong Kong
Baptist University
Last known:
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services, USA |
Topic: Machine Learning on Electronic Health Records |
May 2019
~ Aug. 2019 |
Jean-Yves Djamen-Kepaou
B.Sc. (CS and Stats), McGill
University
Award: NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) |
Topic: Data Mining on Neural Signals |
Jun. 2019
~ Jul. 2019 |
Yinzhao Yan
B.Sc. (CS), Hong Kong
Baptist University |
Topic: Classification Analysis |
Sept. 2017
~ Dec. 2017 |
Arnaud Massenet
B.Sc. (CS), McGill
University
Last known:
Quantitative Researcher, Squarepoint Capital, France |
Topic: Stylometric Analysis for Authorship Analysis
COMP 396 Undergraduate research project |
May 2017
~ Aug. 2017 |
Tuo (Stella) Yu
B.Sc. (CS), McGill
University
Award: NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA)
Last known: Software Developer 2 at Amazon,
Canada |
Topic: Data Mining on Fashion Communications |
Jun. 2017
~ Jul. 2017 |
Shiying (Sherry) Li
B.Sc. (CS), Hong Kong Baptist University
Last known:
Software Engineer at Airbnb, USA |
Topic: Representation learning on patient records
|
May 2016
~ Aug. 2016 |
Trevor Braun
B.A. (Hon.)
(Economics & History), McGill University
Award:
2016 Arts Research Internship Awards (ARIA)
Last known:
Senior Data Scientist at Instacart, USA |
Publications: 7 articles in World Economic Forum (WEF) 2016
Topic: Cybersecurity
|
Jan. 2015
~ Dec. 2015 |
Alexia Yeo
H.B.Sc. (Math and Physics), McGill University
Award: NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA)
Last known:
Vice President, Wealth Management Technology at Morgan Stanley,
Canada |
Publication: T&F JICR16
Topic: Data Mining on Fashion Communications |
Former Research Assistants (10)
Period |
Name / Program |
Publication / Topic |
Jan. 2023 ~ Apr. 2023 |
Ellen Taylor
RA, McGill University
Last known: Youth Program Consultant at International Telecommunication Union, United Nations
|
Publication: 1 op-ed.
Topic: Foreign Interference and Disinformation Campaigns in Canada
Supervisor: B. Fung |
Dec. 2022 ~ Mar. 2023 |
Thiora Meegammana
RA, McGill University
Last known:
|
Publication: 1 book
chapter
Topic: China’s Weaponization of Disinformation to Undermine Democracy in the Free World
Supervisor: B. Fung |
Sept. 2021 ~ Aug. 2022 |
Sze-Fung Lee
RA, McGill University
Last known:
|
Publications: 7 op-eds
Topic: Cybersecurity in International Relations
Supervisor: B. Fung |
Sept. 2018
~ Aug. 2019 |
Rong Wang
Ph.D. (IST), Southwest Jiaotong University
Last known: |
Publications: Elsevier KBS20, Elsevier INS21
Topic: Differential privacy |
May 2017
~ Aug. 2018 |
Rajat Bhateja
MISt (SIS), 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 |
Sogol Masoumzadeh
(Supervisors: 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 ~ |
Yue Dong
(Supervisor: Jackie Cheung) |
Ph.D.
(CS), McGill University |
TBD
(Supervisory Committee) |
Jun. 2022 ~ |
Haolun Wu
(Supervisor: Xue Liu) |
Ph.D.
(CS), McGill University |
TBD (Supervisory Committee Member) |
Jan. 2022 ~ |
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 |
Daniele Menezes Nascimento
(Supervisor: Kimiz Dalkir) |
Ph.D.
(SIS), McGill University |
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) |
Dec. 2015 |
Yasser Jafer
(Supervisor: Stan Matwin) |
Ph.D.
(ECE), University of Ottawa |
Task Oriented Privacy-preserving (TOP) Technologies Using Automatic Feature Selection (External Examiner) |
Nov. 2015 |
Hanqiang Cheng
(Supervisor: Xue Liu) |
Ph.D.
(CS), McGill University |
Fighting Against
Misbehaving Users on Online Social Networks (External Examiner) |
Jul. 2015 |
Jomu George Mani Paret
(Supervisor: O. Ait Mohamed) |
Ph.D.
(ECE), Concordia University |
A Functional Verification Methodology for an Improved Coverage of
System-on-Chips (Examiner) |
Apr. 2015 |
Andrew Hankinson
(Supervisor: Ichiro Fujinaga) |
Ph.D.
(Music Research), McGill University |
Optical music recognition infrastructure for large-scale music document analysis (Examiner) |
Nov. 2014 |
Ola Amayri
(Supervisor: Bouguila) |
Ph.D.
(ECE), Concordia University |
Statistical
Analysis of Spherical Data:
Clustering, Feature Selection and Applications (Examiner) |
May. 2014 |
Ahmad Altamimi
(Supervisor: Eavis) |
Ph.D.
(CS), Concordia University |
A Comprehensive Data Security Framework for OLAP Domains (Examiner) |
Jan. 2014 |
Min Wang
(Supervisor: Zeng) |
Ph.D.
(ECE), Concordia University |
Requirements Modeling: from Natural Language to Conceptual Models Using ROM Analysis (Examiner) |
Sept. 2013 |
Hind Alwan
(Supervisor: Agarwal) |
Ph.D.
(ECE), Concordia University |
QoS-based and
Secure Multipath Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks (External Examiner) |
Sept. 2013 |
Wei Zeng
(Supervisor: S. Li) |
M.A.Sc.
(QSE), Concordia University |
Risk Analysis for Supplier Selection Problem using
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) (Chair) |
Aug. 2013 |
Atieh Saberi Pirouz
(Supervisor: Mannan) |
M.A.Sc.
(ISS), Concordia University |
Securing email through online social networks (Chair) |
Aug. 2013 |
Richard Lee
(Supervisor: Abdi) |
M.A.Sc.
(ECE), Concordia University |
Early and Accurate Modeling of Streaming Applications on Embeded
Platform (Examiner) |
Aug. 2013 |
Hongyan Zhou
(Supervisor: W.-P. Zhu) |
M.A.Sc.
(ECE), Concordia University |
Design and FPGA Implementation of OFDM System with Channel Estimation and Synchronization (Examiner) |
Jun. 2013 |
William Nzoukou Tankou
(Supervisor: L. Wang) |
M.A.Sc.
(ISS), Concordia University |
A Unified Framework for Measuring a Network's Mean Time-to-Compromise (Examiner) |
Jun. 2013 |
Ali Ahmed
(Supervisor: Awasthi) |
M.A.Sc.
(QSE), Concordia University |
Disaster Relief Network Design: Investigating the Effects of Physical Barriers and Information Sharing (Chair) |
Jun. 2013 |
Weina Wang (Supervisor:
Suen) |
M.Comp.Sc.
(CS), Concordia University |
Two novel
learning-based criteria and methods based on multiple classifiers
for rejecting poor handwritten digits (Examiner) |
Apr. 2013 |
Adam Skillen
(Supervisor:
Mannan) |
M.A.Sc.
(ISS), Concordia University |
Deniable
storage encryption for mobile devices (Internal
examiner) |
Apr. 2013 |
Parthasarathy Ravishankar
(Supervisor:
Abdi) |
M.A.Sc.
(ECE), Concordia University |
An observable data cache model for FPGA prototyping (External
examiner) |
Mar. 2013 |
Reem Kateb
(Supervisor:
Bentahar) |
M.A.Sc.
(CIISE), Concordia University |
On the assessment of communities of web services (Chair) |
Feb. 2013 |
Raha Ziarati
(Supervisor:
Debbabi) |
M.A.Sc.
(ISS), Concordia University |
Dynamic matching and weaving semantics for executable UML models
(Internal examiner) |
Oct. 2012 |
Omid Ashrafi
(Supervisors: Haghighat and Yerushalami) |
Ph.D.
(Bldg) , Concordia University |
Estimation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Wastewater Treatment Plant of Pulp & Paper Industry (Chair) |
Aug. 2012 |
Moayad Aloqaily
(Supervisors: Glitho and Hammad) |
M.A.Sc.
(ECE), Concordia University |
Multiparty/Multimedia Conferencing in Mobile Ad-Hoc
Networks for Improving Communications between
Firefighters (Chair) |
Jul. 2012 |
Mohamed El Menshawy Mohamed
(Supervisors: Bentahar and Dssouli) |
Ph.D.
(ECE), Concordia University |
Model Checking Logics of Social Commitments for Agent
Communication (External examiner) |
Jul. 2012 |
Roger Zahno
(Supervisor: Youssef) |
M.A.Sc.
(ISS), Concordia University |
Key Recovery
from Memory Images and Obfuscation of Cryptographic Algorithms (Internal examiner) |
Jun. 2012 |
Taiwo Olubunmi Adetiloye
(Supervisor: Awasthi) |
M.A.Sc.
(QSE), Concordia University |
Collaboration Planning of Stakeholders for Sustainable City Logistics Operations (Chair) |
Apr. 2012 |
Adam Szporer
(Supervisor: Debbabi) |
M.A.Sc.
(ISS), Concordia University |
E-mail
Analysis for Investigators: Techniques and Implementation (Internal
examiner) |
Feb. 2012 |
Mohamed Amine M'Hamdi
(Supervisor: Bentahar) |
M.Comp.Sc.
(CS), Concordia University |
Scheduling Reputation Maintenance in Agent-based Communities
Using Game Theory (Examiner) |
Dec. 2011 |
Pengsu Cheng
(Supervisor: L. Wang) |
M.A.Sc.
(ISS), Concordia University |
A Multi-Faceted Approach to Network Security Metric through Combining CVSS Base Scores (Internal
examiner) |
Sept. 2011 |
Giti Oghabi
(Supervisor: Bentahar) |
M.Comp.Sc.
(CS), Concordia University
|
Verifying Web
Services Using Probabilistic Model Checking (Examiner) |
Aug. 2011 |
Riadul Islam
(Supervisor: Jahinuzzaman) |
M.A.Sc.
(ECE), Concordia University |
High-Speed
Energy-Efficient Soft Error Tolerant Flip-Flops (External
examiner) |
Aug. 2011 |
Ann Fry
(Supervisor: Debbabi) |
M.A.Sc.
(ISS), Concordia University |
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:
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How to Write and Publish Research Papers for the Premier Forums in
Knowledge & Data Engineering
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The McGill Writing Centre
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Research
- 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.
- Many privacy papers:
Privacy Preserving Data Mining Bibliography
-
CMU Privacy Lab
-
CMU: References to k-anonymity Literature
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RFID
-
Basic Techniques:
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Major Journals
Major DB/DM Conferences
- ACM SIGMOD
- ACM PODS
- ACM SIGKDD
- VLDB
- EDBT
- IEEE ICDE
- IEEE ICDM
- ACM CIKM
- SIAM SDM
- ICDT
Journal / Conference / Workshop Information:
The Good
Conferences?
Acceptance
rates major database conferences
Computer Science Conference Rankings
1
Computer Science Conference Rankings
2
Another CS
Conference Rankings
Security Conference Rankings
Estimated impact of
publication venues in CS (CiteSeer)
Security and
communication conferences
Data sources: IPums
Publishers that you should avoid
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Policies of using computer equipment and labs
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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.
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