Awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal by Universities Canada in 2025; winner of the 2024-2025 George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Ottawa; Best Paper Award at IEEE Globecom 2024 for a collaborative work with CIENA; received the IEEE ComSoc CSIM-TC 2024 Best Journal Paper Award for a comprehensive survey on edge learning for 6G-enabled IoT.
Research Experience
Leading a team at SCVIC and NEXTCON Lab focusing on semantic communications, generative AI and large language models for next generation networks; AI-driven security for smart critical infrastructures; secure, resilient, and reliable communications for 6G and beyond; AI-backed event detection, actuation, and planning for connected vehicles; Internet of Things / Internet of Vehicles; crowdsensing and vehicular social networks.
Background
Professor & University Research Chair in AI-Enabled Secure Networking for Smart Critical Infrastructures. IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Systems Council Distinguished Lecturer.
Miscellany
Looking for enthusiastic PhD students and Postdoctoral Fellows to join his team, welcoming researchers with the strongest technical skills regardless of their background.