Ranked #670 globally and #22 in Canada in Research.com's 2025 Ranking of Best Scientists in Computer Science
Recipient of Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award (2013)
Recipient of 10 best (student) paper awards from reputable journals and conferences
Excellence in Teaching Award at UNB Faculty of Computer Science (2016–17 and 2023–24)
IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer (2024–2025)
Research Experience
Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (April 2013 – August 2016)
Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo (May 2012 – April 2013)
Steering Committee Chair of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC) since April 2025
Chair of IEEE ComSoc CIS-TC (2022–2023)
Founding Co-chair of IEEE TEMS Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers Technologies Technical Committee (BDLT-TC)
Background
Full Professor at the School of Computing, Queen's University, Canada
Research interests include IoT-Big Data security and privacy, Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET), and applied cryptography
IEEE Fellow
Former Acting Director of the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity (CIC)
Former Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick (UNB), holding the Mastercard IoT Research Chair
Google Scholar H-index 95 with over 40,000 citations as of June 2025