Current Graduate Students


Bhargavi Vigayaraghavana,
MCS student
UNB, 2021

Mohammad Mehdi Yadollahi,
MCS student
UNB, 2020

Princy Victor,
PhD student
UNB, 2021

Maryam Isakhani,
MCS student
UNB, 2021

Tristan Carrier,
MCS student
UNB, 2020

Ehab Alkhateeb,
PhD student
UNB, 2020

Madumitha Venkat,
MCS student
UNB, 2020

Mohammed Al-dawrobi,
PhD student
UNB, 2018

Kwasi Boakye,
PhD student
UNB, 2019

Hesam Mohammadian,
PhD student
UNB, 2019

Former Postdoctoral Fellows


Gurdip Kaur,PhD
2019-2021 (UNB-CIC)
Project: DoH security (CIRA)

Former Graduate Students


Miraqa Safi,
MCS, UNB, 2021
"IoT Profiling"

JAKE Van Der Laan,
MCS, UNB, 2021
"Phishing Detection"

Saeed Shafiee Hasanabadi,
PhD, UNB, 2020
"Anti-Forensics"

Yashar Alimohammadzadeh,
MCS, IAUEC, 2018
"Botnet tracing and detection"

Mohammadreza MontazeriShatoori,
MCS, UNB, 2020
"DoH Security"

Nastaran Mahmousyar,
MCS, UNB, 2020
"IoT Malware"

Mohammad Seifi Dahaki,
MCS, IAUEC, 2018
"IoT authentication"

Saeed Torkamani,
MCS, IAUEC, 2017
"phishing and spam Email"

Golnaz Farahi Moghadam,
MCS, IAUEC, 2017
"Banking and Multi-layer Authentications"

Shima Pouyanrad,
MCS, IAUEC, 2017
"Malware detection"

Mehdi Faraji,
MCS, IAUEC, 2017
"Security Model for Information Sharing"

Mohsen Moghanian,
MCS, IAUEC, 2016
"SYN Flood attack prevention"

Maryam Taheri,
MCS, IAUEC, 2016
"E-Commerce composite web services"

Hasan Shadmanfar,
MCS, IAUEC, 2017
"One Time Password"

Masoume Ghasemi,
MCS, IAUEC, 2015
"E-business Malware"

Mohsin R. Albayati,
MCS, LUCT, 2014
"Graphical Password"

Ahmad Z. El-Rufai,
MCS, LUCT, 2014
"Graphical Password"

Gratien Shumbusho,
MCS, LUCT, 2014
"Secure Authentication"

Atwine Mugume Twinamatsiko,
MCS, LUCT, 2013
"Multiple-tenancy in Cloud Systems"

Jugal Harshvadan Joshi
MCS, LUCT, 2013
"Quality model for IaaS Providers"

Ali Naser Abdulhussein,
MCS, LUCT, 2013
"Load Balancing for Virtualized Cloud Data Center"

Former Undergraduate Students


Aaron Frank,
BCS, UNB, 2021
"Phishing Emails"

David Sean Keyes,
BCS, UNB, 2021
"Android Malware"

Jaustin Gaudet,
BCS, UNB, 2020
(Best Senior Honours Thesis)
"Authorship Attribution"

Kanat Yesseyev,
BCS, LUCT, 2012

Elmira Yesseyev,
BCS, LUCT, 2012

Mustafa Aldally,
BCS, LUCT, 2012

Mike Ng Ah Ngan
BCS, LUCT, 2010

Ali Nader Mahmed Mahmed
BCS, LUCT, 2012

Ali Garba Garba
BCS, LUCT, 2012

Bade Aliyu Musa
BCS, LUCT, 2012

Kanammal A/P Sandrasekaran2
BCS, LUCT, 2012

Keamogetwe Oteng
BCS, LUCT, 2012

One Ndaba
BCS, LUCT, 2012

Seyed Mostafa Hosseini
BCS, UITM, 2010

Imam Musa Abiodunde Tele
BCS, LUCT, 2011

Mohammed A.Tahir
BCS, LUCT, 2011

Shahan Ahmad Chouwdhary,
BCS, LUCT, 2011

Waqas Khalid Obeidy
BCS, LUCT, 2011

Tan Yi Shin
BCS, LUCT, 2010

Muazun asiru danmaliki
BCS, UM, 2010

Ashraf Abbas M. Al-Modwahi
BCS, LUCT, 2010

Bashir Abdu Muzakkari
BCS, LUCT, 2010

Chicco Mokhe
BCS, LUCT, 2011

Denis Bantariza
BCS, LUCT, 2010

Koh Boon San
BCS, LUCT, 2010

Mohammed Abdul Karim
BCS, LUCT, 2010

Master of Applied Cybersecurity (MACSec) Capstone Projects


A. Abuelatta, 2021 Summer
(UNB - MACSec)

Project: Data Sovereignty

Lucas McDonald, 2021 Summer
(UNB - MACSec)

Project: Data Sovereignty

Rehnuma Tabassum, 2021 Summer
(UNB - MACSec)

Project: Credential Stuffing Attacks

Ashley Barkworth, 2019-2021
(UNB - MACSec)

Project: Credential Stuffing Attacks

Co-op Students and Research Assistant


Logan Davidson, 2020 Winter
(UNB - Undergraduate)

Project: DNS Over HTTPS (DOH)

Logan Davidson, 2019 Fall
(UNB - Undergraduate)

Project: DNS Over HTTPS (DOH)

Beiqi Li, 2019 Fall
(UNB - Undergraduate)

Project: Android Malware Analysis

Melissa Lukings, 2019-2021
(UNB - Undergraduate)

Project: Cybersecurity Law

Mitacs Global Internship Program students


Abir Rahil (From Tunisia), 2019 Summer
(UNB-CIC)

Project: Android Malware Analysis

Abhishek Chopra (From India), 2021 Summer
(UNB-CIC)

Project: Authership Attribution

Anjali Bera (From India), 2021 Summer
(UNB-CIC)

Project: Android Malware

Thesis Examiner


Samin Fakharian
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner (Chair),
MCS, UNB, April 2021

MohammadHossein Parastar
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner,
MCS, UNB, August 2020

Shubhangi Upadhyay
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner,
MCS, UNB, April 2020

Shreshth Kumar
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner,
MCS, UNB, April 2020

Laya Taheri
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner,
MCS, UNB, April 2020

Aaron Broad
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner,
MCS, UNB, April 2019

Rasool Fatemi
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner (Chair),
MCS, UNB, December 2019

Josia Mololuwa Oyinola
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner (Chair),
MCS, UNB, December 2019

Saravanan B
External Thesis Defense Examiner,
PhD, Anna University, India, December 2019

Mahdi Hosseinali
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner,
PhD, UNB, Aug 2019

Fatemeh Lashkari
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner,
PhD, UNB, July 2019

Mahdi Bashari
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner,
PhD, UNB, Sep 2018

Deepigha Shree Vittal Babu
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner,
MCS, UNB, August 2018

Andrii Kuch
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner,
MCS, UNB, August 2018

Nafis Izadi Yekta
Internal Thesis Defense Examiner,
MCS, UNB, July 2018

Folks worked/working with me on Industrial Research projects


Yaser Baseri,2020-2021
Projects: BGP traffic analysis (CIC & Bell)

Amgad Hanafy Salem,2020-2021
Projects: BGP, GRE and DNS traffic analysis (CIC & Bell)

Iman Sharafaldin,2017-2020
Projects: CICDDoS2019 (CIC), CICIDS2017 (CIC), CSE-CIC-IDS-2018 (CIC & CSE), Threat Analsysis (CIC & Bell)

Laya Taheri, 2018-2020
Projects: InvesAndMal (CIC), Android Malware (CIC)Android Sandbox (CIC), Vulnerability Analysis (CIC & City of SaintJohn)

Nasim Maleki, 2018-2020
Projects: Cybersecurity Insurance (CIC & Cooperators), DNS Analsysis (CIC & Bell)

Samaneh Mahdavifar, 2018-2019
Project: DNS Analsysis (CIC & Bell)

Hamid Azimy, 2018-2019
Project: Cybersecurity Insurance (CIC & Cooperators)

Will Bartlett, 2018
Project: Honeynet (CIC)

Drake Luce, 2018-2019
Project: Android Sandbox (CIC)

XiChen Zhang, 2018-2019
Projects: URL Analysis (ISCX), Cybersecurity Insurance (CIC & Cooperators)

HamidReza Talebi, 2018-2019
Projects: Honeynet, CICIDS2017 (CIC), CSE-CIC-IDS-2018 (CIC & CSE)

Yongcan Zang, 2017-2018
Projects: Network Flow Meter (CIC), UUP (CIC & IBM)

Gift Owhuo, 2017
Project: Network Flow Meter(CIC)

Amy Seo, 2017
Project: Secure Browser (ISCX)

Amir Hossein Gharib, 2016-2017
Projects: CIC Benign Behaviour (CIC), UUP (CIC & IBM)

Andi Fitriah Abdulkadir, 2016-2018
Projects: UUP (CIC & IBM), Malware Analysis (CIC)

Kenneth Fon Mbah, 2017
Project: Network Flow Meter(CIC)
Researchers named among top researchers for Canada 150
The cybersecurity Research and Academic Leadership award, Canada 2019
The cybersecurity academic award, Canada 2017