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Dr. Ali Ghorbani has held a variety of positions in academia for the past 30 years including heading up project and research groups and as department chair, director of computing services, director of extended learning and as assistant dean. He received his PhD and Master's in Computer Science from the University of New Brunswick, and the George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA, respectively. Dr. Ghorbani currently serves as Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science. He received the university's merit award for outstanding contributions to the University of New Brunswick and UNB Research Scholar award in 2003 and 2007, respectively. His current research focus is Web Intelligence, Network & Information Security, Complex Adaptive Systems, and Critical Infrastructure Protection. He authored more than 220 reports and research papers in journals and conference proceedings and has edited 8 volumes. He is the co-inventor of 3 patents in the area of Web Intelligence and Network Security. He served as General Chair and Program Chair/co-Chair for 7 International Conferences, and organized over 10 International Workshops. He has also supervised more than 120 research associates, postdoctoral fellows, and undergraduate and graduate students. Together with two other researchers, he received a CFI (Canada Foundation for Innovation) grant to establish a research laboratory (LIDS Lab for the Investigation of Discrete Structures). He was the project leader and principal investigator for two Atlantic Innovation Fund projects, "Adaptive Websites" and "Fuzzy Adaptive Survivability Tools for Intrusion Detection (FAST ID)", respectively, and co-principal investigator for "Business Domain Ontology Development Framework (BDODF)" project. Currently, he is the principal investigator of an NSERC Strategic project on Botnet Detection, Mitigation and Visualization. Dr. Ghorbani is the founding Director of Information Security Centre of Excellence at UNB. He is also the coordinator of the Privacy, Security and Trust (PST) network at UNB. Dr. Ghorbani is the co-Editor-In-Chief of Computational Intelligence, an international journal, and associate editor of the International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering and the ISC journal of Information Security. His book, Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems: Concepts and Techniques, published by Springer in October 2009. Dr. Ghorbani is the member of ACM, IEEE, and Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS). He is a member of CIPS Professional Standards Advisory Council (PSAC) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada committee on Safety and Security.
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