Dr. Mohammad Zulkernine, PEng

Dr. Mohammad Zulkernine is a Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Cyber-Physical System Security at the School of Computing of Queen’s University, Canada. Dr. Zulkernine also serves as the Founding Director of the Queen’s Centre for Security and Privacy. He is cross-appointed at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Queen’s and the Royal Military College of Canada. Dr. Zulkernine served as the Graduate Chair of the School of Computing from 2019 to 2023 and held a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Software Dependability from 2011 to 2021. He joined Queen’s in 2003 and spent his sabbatical at the University of Trento, Italy, Irdeto Canada, and American University of Sharjah, UAE. Dr. Zulkernine is a licensed professional engineer in Ontario, Canada. Dr. Zulkernine leads the Queen’s Reliable Software Technology research group. His current research focuses on cyber-physical system security and building secure software systems for connected and autonomous vehicles and Internet of Things. Dr. Zulkernine has an extensive publication record in these domains. He has led 35 research projects supported by provincial and federal agencies, as well as industry partners. He has also actively collaborated in industry-supported multi-university projects, including several international projects such as European Union and Canada-Africa international projects. Dr. Zulkernine has supervised over 100 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. He received the Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision award of Queen’s University and Distinguished Graduate Supervision Award of the School of Computing. His supervised students have achieved recognition with numerous conference best paper and distinguished thesis awards. Dr. Zulkernine has held many leadership positions such as general chair and program chair of major international conferences and journal editorships. His diverse educational and professional background spans five countries: Bangladesh, Japan, Canada, Italy, and UAE. Dr. Zulkernine obtained his BSc from Bangladesh (BUET), MEng from Japan (Muroran), and PhD from Canada (Waterloo).