Survol des parcours des panélistes et conférencier.e.s du colloque du CRDM sur la cybersécurité

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Explorez les parcours remarquables des treize conférencier.e.s et panélistes qui animeront notre colloque sur la cybersécurité qui se tiendra le 16 septembre 2024 à l’Université Laval (lien d’inscription):

1ère session de conférences : Cybersecurity and AI

  • Steven H. H. Ding (McGill University)

Dr. Steven Ding is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Studies at McGill University, building upon his prior role as an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing at Queen’s University. His research work is dedicated to harnessing the power of AI technologies to tackle the intricate challenges of cybersecurity while fortifying the resilience of AI systems for the future. Dr. Ding earned his Ph.D. from McGill University in 2019, where he was awarded the FRQNT Doctoral Research Scholarship of Quebec and the Dean’s Graduate Award at McGill. Currently, his research is supported by BlackBerry, the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS), and Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC).

  • Guy-vincent Jourdan (University of Ottawa)

Guy-Vincent Jourdan is a full professor of computer science at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Ottawa, Canada, and the co-director of the uOttawa-IBM Cyber Range. He has over 20 years of experience leading research and industry collaborations. He has co-authored over a hundred scientific publications and 18 patents. For the past decade, his main research area has been cybersecurity, specifically, cybercrime detection and prevention.

  • Foutse Khomh (Polytechnique Montréal)

Foutse Khomh is a Full Professor of Software Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, a Canada CIFAR AI Chair on Trustworthy Machine Learning Software Systems, an NSERC Arthur B. McDonald Fellow, and an FRQ-IVADO Research Chair on Software Quality Assurance for Machine Learning Applications. He received a Ph.D. in Software Engineering from the University of Montreal in 2011, with the Award of Excellence. He also received a CS-Can/Info-Can Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize for 2019. His research interests include software maintenance and evolution, machine learning systems engineering, cloud engineering, and dependable and trustworthy ML/AI. His work has received four ten-year Most Influential Paper (MIP) Awards, and seven Best/Distinguished Paper Awards. He initiated and co-organized the Software Engineering for Machine Learning Applications (SEMLA) symposium and the RELENG (Release Engineering) workshop series. He is co-founder of the NSERC CREATE SE4AI: A Training Program on the Development, Deployment, and Servicing of Artificial Intelligence-based Software Systems and one of the Principal Investigators of the DEpendable Explainable Learning (DEEL) project. He is also a co-founder of Quebec’s initiative on Trustworthy AI (Confiance IA Quebec) and Scientific co-director of  IVADO. He is on the editorial board of multiple international software engineering journals (e.g., IEEE Software, EMSE, SQJ, JSEP) and is a Senior Member of IEEE.

2e session de conférences : Software security

  • Euijin (Alley) Choo (University of Alberta)

Euijin (Alley) Choo is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computing Science at University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Prior to joining U of A, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Qatar Computing Research Institute. She received her Ph.D from North Carolina State University. Her primary expertise is data-driven cybersecurity. Her current research focuses on robust AI-based cybersecurity solutions and adversarial attacks against AI-based cybersecurity solutions. Her research areas span various subareas under the broad umbrella of data-driven cybersecurity, including malicious URL detection, fraud detection, compromised mobile device detection, and anomaly detection in enterprise logs. Her research has been published in top conferences such as IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) and ACM SIGMETRICS. Due to the impact of the work, she has been invited to serve as a journal reviewer for top data science journals, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and TPC for top security conferences such as Usenix Security and ACSAC. She is a PI on two MITACS grants about federated learning security and anomaly detection systems. She is an awardee of the best paper award at IFIP DBSEC 2015, and multiple travel grants supported by major security conferences such as IEEE S&P and ACM CCS.

  • Paria Shirani (University of Ottawa)

Paria Shirani is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Cybersecurity and an Assistant Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Ottawa. Prior to joining the University of Ottawa, she was an Assistant Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University. Previously, she was a National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. Paria Shirani’s research in cybersecurity includes binary code and malware analysis, IoT security, vulnerability detection, threat intelligence generation, and applied machine learning.

  • Furkan Alaca (Queen’s University)

Furkan Alaca is an Assistant Professor at the Queen’s University School of Computing. His current research focuses primarily on building user authentication systems that overcome the security and usability challenges faced by current systems. Prior to joining Queen’s University, he was a faculty member at the University of Toronto Mississauga. He completed his PhD in 2018 at the School of Computer Science at Carleton University.

3e session de conférences : Critical infrastructure security

  • Karthik Pattabiraman (UBC)

Karthik Pattabiraman (https://blogs.ubc.ca/karthik/) is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He received his PhD in 2009 in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), an MS in Computer Science also from UIUC in 2004, and B. Tech. from the University of Madras, India, in 2001. Before joining UBC in 2010, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research (MSR), Redmond. Karthik’s research interests are in dependable computer systems, cyber security, cyber-physical systems and software engineering. Karthik has won awards such as the Inaugural IEEE Rising Star in Dependability Award, UIUC CS department’s early career alumni achievement award, UBC-wide Killam mentoring excellence award, UBC-wide Killam Faculty Research Prize and Killam Faculty Research Fellowship, NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) in Canada, and the William Carter PhD Dissertation Award. Karthik is the vice-chair of the IFIP Working Group (WG) 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault-tolerance, and a member of the steering committee of the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN). He is a distinguished member of the ACM, a distinguished contributor of the IEEE Computer Society, and a professional engineer (P.Eng.).

  • Hadis Karimipour (University of Calgary)

Dr. Hadis Karimipour is the Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Secure and Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems, Director of the Smart Cyber-Physical (SCPS) Lab, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering at the University of Calgary.  Before joining the University of Calgary in July 2021, she was an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Guelph, 2017-2021, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Calgary between 2016-2017. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alberta in June 2016. She was a recipient of the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II scholarship (2014 and 2015) in support of her Ph.D. research. Dr. Karimipour is among the pioneers of using Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine/Deep Learning for security analysis of critical infrastructure. She has published 2 books, 45 journal articles, 24 book chapters, and 35 conference articles in top IEEE journals and conferences. Dr. Karimpour received many awards, including Canada’s Top 20 Women in Cybersecurity by ITWorldCanada, APEGA Early Accomplishment Award, and Most Inspiring Women in Cyber Award by IT Security Guru.
She has been a keynote/invited speaker for more than 26 different IEEE/International conferences. She was the chair of the IEEE workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Securing Cyber-Physical Systems (AI4SCPS) at IEEE CCECE 2019 and IEEE CyberSciTech 2020 conferences and chair of the special session on Artificial Intelligence for Security of IoT-Enabled Critical Infrastructures at the IEEE SMC 2020 conference. She was the technical committee member/publication chair of IEEE Int. Conf. on Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE2018, 2019, 2020), IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA2020), 18th Int. Conf. on Privacy, Security, and Trust (PST 2020), IEEE Elec. Power and Energy Conf. (EPEC2020), and IEEE Int. Conf. on Sys., Man, and Cyber. (IEEE SMC 2020).
Dr. Karimipour is the Associate Editor of the IEEE Transaction in Industrial Informatics, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, IET Smart Grid Journal, Editor of the American Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Editor of the Journal of Electrical Engineering. She has also served as Guest Editor for Elsevier Journal of Computer and Electrical Engineering. She was the Editor of the Springer book “Security of Cyber-physical System: Vulnerabilities and Challenges” and “AI-Enabled Threat Detection and Security Analysis for Industrial IoT “. Dr. Karimipour is a Senior Member of IEEE member, chair of IEEE Women in Engineering and chapter chair of the IEEE Information Theory Kitchener-Waterloo Section, and an active member of the Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology.

  • Marwa Elsayed (Western University)

Biographie à venir.

4e session – Panel de discussion: Security and Privacy

  • Alina Maria Dulipovici (HEC Montréal)

Alina Dulipovici PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Technology at HEC Montréal and serves as Deputy Director (Education) at the Multidisciplinary Institute for Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience (IMC2). She is also a member of the Information Systems Research Group (GReSI). Holder of a doctoral degree in Information Systems from Georgia State University in the United States, Alina specializes in risk management of information assets, knowledge management systems in organizations, and privacy. She is also deeply involved in teaching and developing cybersecurity courses and programs at HEC Montréal and at Executive Education HEC Montréal. She has published her work in prestigious journals such as the European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Knowledge Management Research and Practice, International Journal of Case Studies in Management, as well as in the proceedings of various conferences in information systems and in cybersecurity.

  • Frédéric Cuppens (Polytechnique Montréal)

Frédéric Cuppens is a full professor at Polytechnique Montréal. Since 2023, he has been Director of the Multidisciplinary Institute for Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience (IMC2) and head of the GEDAI Institutional Chair on the Identification, Analysis and Automation of the Management of Internal Deviations and Anomalies. In 2022, he co-created a new professional master’s program in cybersecurity at Polytechnique Montréal. From 2003 to 2020, he was a professor at IMT Atlantique and head of the IRIS team at Lab-STICC. He was the holder of the Cyber CNI Chair on Cybersecurity of Critical Infrastructures. From 2014 to 2018, he led the Training Club of the Cyber Centre of Excellence.

  • Lyse Langlois (Université Laval)

Lyse Langlois is the Executive Director of the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of AI and Digital Technology (OBVIA) and is a full professor in the Department of Industrial Relations. She was director of the Institute of Applied Ethics (IDÉA) at Université Laval for eight years. She is a researcher member at the Interuniversity Research Centre on the Globalization of Work (CRIMT). She is also a researcher at the Institut d’intelligence et données de l’Université Laval. Her research focuses on ethical decision-making processes and the formalization of ethics. She is particularly interested in the social and ethical impacts of artificial intelligence and digital technology and the consideration of social principles and considerations in the design and deployment of AI systems. She has several scientific publications, books, articles and reports on these subjects.

  • Sébastien Gambs (UQAM)

Sébastien Gambs has held the Canada Research Chair in Privacy and Ethical Analysis of Massive Data since December 2017 and has been a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Université du Québec à Montréal since January 2016. His main research theme is privacy in the digital world. He is also interested in solving long-term scientific questions such as the existing tensions between massive data analysis and privacy as well as ethical issues such as fairness, transparency and algorithmic accountability raised by personalized systems.

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