Archived News
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January 2018
Check out the demo on our CPV (Client Presnce Verification). The demo is developed by my former Ph.D. student Dr. Abdelrahman Abdou , who is currently a Postdoc Fellow in the Systems Security group at ETH Zurich.
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January 2018
Congratulations to Moahmed Aslan for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis.
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October 2017
Co-chairing SERENE-RISC fall 2017 workshop ( draft agenda)
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April 2017
Serving as panelist in the Infrastructure Security panel of the Spring Workshop of
Canada's NCE SMART CYBERSECURITY NETWORK (SERENE-RISC) in Montreal.
Check the full schedule
here
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April 2017: Distinguished Paper Award
at the ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security(AsiaCCS)
for our paper: "Accurate Manipulation of Delay-based Internet Geolocation", co-authored with my former Ph.D. student Dr. Abdelrahman Abdou and Prof. Paul van Oorschot.
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December 2016
Starting research collaboration with TELUS COMMUNICATIONS with funding from NSERC in the area of Network Security.
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October 2016
Danish Sattar presented our nogoing work "Using Software Defined Networking to Support Security Functions" at SERENE-RISC Fall 2016 Workshop .
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February 2016
Congratulations to Mohamed Aslan for successfully defending his Ph.D. proposal.
- February 2016 Our work on Client Presence Verification that is based on our paper "CPV: Delay-based Location Verification for the Internet" IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) has been covered in the media
The Globe and Mail,
TechVibes,
Slashdot,
Schneier's blog,
TheStack,
TechRepublic,
HP Enterprise,
Tech Times
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January 2016
Our work on SDN has just been published in IEEE Communications Letters .
As SDN is becoming a very hot topic, we address the critical issue of how a controller's method of network state collection impacts SDN applications performance. Check our paper for details: On the Impact of Network State Collection on the Performance of SDN Applications.
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June 2015
Congratulations to Abdelrahman Abdou for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis.
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April 2015
Just joined SERENE-RISC. As of April 2015, I am a Network Co-Investigator of Canada's NCE SMART CYBERSECURITY NETWORK
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October 2014
Best Paper Award nomination for our paper, "Location Verification on the Internet: Towards Enforcing Location-aware Access Policies Over Internet Clients" in the IEEE Communications and Network Security conference, CNS 2014, co-authored with my Ph.D. student A. M. Abdou and Prof. P. C. van Oorschot.
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August 2014
Congratulations to Manjinder Nir for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis.
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May 2014: Presented our research on Resource Augmentation in Mobile Environments at Simon Fraser University's School of Engineering Science (Host: Prof. Trjkovic) and at the University of Victoria's Department of Computer Science (Host: Prof. Pan) . Both presentations were hosted by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society joint Chapter of the Vancouver/Victoria Sections .
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May 2014: Presented our paper
"Optimizing Energy Consumption in Broker-Assisted Cyber Foraging Systems",
at
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications . The paper is co-authored with my student M. Nir and Prof. M. St-Hilaire
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April 2014: Presented our paper
"An Energy Optimizing Scheduler for Mobile Cloud Computing Environments",
at
IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing . The paper is co-authored with my student M. Nir and Prof. M. St-Hilaire
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September 2013: My graduate advanced topics course is updated and offered now as a regular course. The "Designing Secure Networking and Computer Systems" course is now a regular
The Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Electrical and Computer Engineering (OCIECE) course (SYSC5500).
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July 2013: Participated and presented my work at ISSNet summer security week
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May 2013: Awarded my thrid discovery grant in the area of mobile network security.
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February 2013 : Awarded an NSERC Engage grant to study the W3C Geolocation API.
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January 2013: Congratulations to Muhammad Mahmoud for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis.
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October 2012: Our paper titled
"Does Context Influence Responses to Firewall Warnings?"
won the third place award for best paper in the
seventh IEEE eCrime Researchers Summit 2012 organized by the Anti Phishing
Working Group in Puerto Rico.
The paper is co-authored with my student M. Mahmoud and Prof. S. Chiasson
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July 2011: I finished my first sabbatical at the end of June.
It was a very good experience.
I was fortunate enough to gain world class research experience at two places.
The first experience was spending part of my sabbatical working as a senior
research and consultant at
Cloakware Advanced Research Centre (CARC)
of Irdeto.
We co-authored a paper on
cloud computing security.
The second was collaborating with
Prof. Hossam Hassanein
at his TRLab at Queen's University
on problems related
to peer-to-peer applications in new networking paradigms.