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Major Awards & Honors
- Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Cyber-Physical System Security, 2024.
- Queen’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision, 2023.
- Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Software Reliability and Security, 2016.
- Distinguished Graduate Supervision Award, School of Computing, Queen’s University, 2013.
- Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Software Dependability, 2011.
- Awards to supervised PhD/MSc
- Governor General’s Gold Medal (2021, PhD), IEEE Kingston Research Excellence (2007, MSc, honorable mention).
- Distinguished Thesis Awards 2022 (PhD), 2021 (PhD), 2018 (PhD), 2013 (PhD), 2012 (PhD, honorable mention), 2012 (MSc), 2007 (MSc), 2006 (MSc).
Research
- Principal Investigator, Queen’s Reliable Software Technology Laboratory
- Current Projects: Cyber-Physical System Security and Reliability
- Faculty Affiliate and Director, Queen’s Centre for Security & Privacy
- Co-Investigator, NSERC Cybersecurity CREATE Program
- Publications: Listed in DBLP, Google Scholar, and the Publications page
Recent Journal & Conference Activities
- Standing Committee Vice Chair: The IEEE Annual Conference on Computers, Software and Applications (COMPSAC), 2021-
- General Chair: IEEE DSA (China, 2024), IEEE COMPSAC (Spain, 2020, 2021), IEEE DASC (USA, 2017); Canada, 2020, 2021), IEEE DependSys (Fiji, 2020)
- Program Chair: CRISIS (Tunisia, 2022), NSysS (Bangladesh, 2022), DSA (China, 2021), A3S (Bulgaria, 2019), SIRI (Korea, 2011), COMPSAC (Turkey, 2011), HASE (USA, 2014), STPSA (USA, China, Finland, Korea, USA, 2006-10), NSysS (Bangladesh, 2017)
- Editorial Board Member: IEEE Transactions on Reliability (2020-22), Wiley Journal of Security and Privacy (2017-18), International Journal of Performability Engineering, (2020-)
- Guest Editor: Journal of Systems and Software, Dependable Systems and Applications (2022); Software Quality Journal, High Assurance Systems Engineering, (2016); Journal of Systems and Software, Trustworthy Software Systems for the Digital Society (2014); Information and Software Technology Journal, Software Reliability and Security, (2012); Journal of Software, Software Engineering (2011)
Supervision / Teaching
- Thesis Hall of Fame
- Post Doctoral Fellow: Dr. Nilesh Chakraborty, Dr. Anika Anwar, Dr. Qi Li (with Dr. Jianbing Ni)
- PhD: Amin Fakhereldine, Youssef Yamout (with Dr. Shahriar Iqbal), Ayesha Babar, Mahdieh Safarzadeh, Stephen McKeon, Emilie Coote, Ephraim Govere, Nazmul Islam, Raha Abbas (with Dr. Jianbing Ni)
- MSc: Nadia Rubaiyat (with Dr. Jianbing Ni), Shaila Anuva (with Dr. Shahriar Iqbal), Abrar Kazi (with Dr. Anwar Hossain)
- Past Supervised Theses: Available on QRST page
- Teaching:
- Graduate: Cyber-Physical System Security, Software Reliability and Security, Software Reliability
- Undergraduate: Software Quality Assurance, Distributed Systems, and Information Technology Project
Countries Travelled / Lived
Algeria, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bhutan, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, England, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Oman, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, UAE, USA (Including Puerto Rico And Hawaii), Vietnam.
Current & Past Sponsors
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