Founder and Director
Arash Habibi Lashkari
Canada Research Chair (CRC-II)
Associate Professor, School of Information Technology
Graduate Faculty at Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Postdoctoral Fellows:
Arousha Haghighian
Postdoctoral Fellow (PDF)
Mitacs Elevate
Current Graduate Students
Sepideh Hosseinkhani
PhD-CS (YU, Canada), 2024
Ava Ameri
MAIST (YU, Canada), 2024
Former Graduate Students:
Mahdiye Khalaji
MASc, 2025
Amirhosein Ahmadneghad
MCS, 2025
Reza Abbaszadeh
MCS, 2025
Niosha Hejazi
Master of IT, 2025
Arefeh Kouhi
Master of IT, 2025
Adit Sharma
Master of IT, 2025
Moein Shafi
Master of CS, 2024
Yasin Dehfuli
Master of CS, 2024
Sepideh Hosseinkhani
Master of CS, 2024
Sepideh Niktabe
Master of CS, 2024
Ilkay Kaya
Master of ScMP, 2024
(Co-supervising)
Graduate Research Assistants:
Moein Shafi
RA: 2025-2026
Project: IDS/IPS
Funding: Mitacs Accelerate
Pedram Sharifani
RA: 2025-2025
Project: IDS/IPS
Funding: NSERC
Mona Parizad
RA: 2024-2024
Project: Healthcare Security
Funding: NSERC
Dilli Sharma
RA: 2024-2025
Project: DeFi Security
Funding: NSERC
Barjinder Kaur
RA: 2025-2025
Project: DeFi Security
Funding: NSERC
Marella Bolton
RA: 2024-2024
Project: UCS- Cybercrime
Funding: NSERC
Maryam Issakhani
RA: 2023-2023
Project: Software Security
Funding: NSERC
Melissa Lukings
RA: 2022-2023
Project: UCS-Cybercrime
Funding: NSERC
International Visitor Researchers
Shaila Sharmin
2024-2025 (Postgraduate) )
Project: CAN Intrusion Detection
Funding: Mitacs GRA (Canada)
Maelle Gautrin
2024-2024 (Postgraduate)
Project: Smart Contracts
Funding: IVR (France)
Undergraduate Research Assistants:
Sepehr Jafari
2025-2025 (Undergraduate RA)
Project: UDP Security
Funding: NSERC
joshua duarte
2025-2025 (Undergraduate RA)
Project: DeFi Security
Funding: NSERC
Isabella Lopez
2024-2024 (Undergraduate RA)
Project: DeFi Security
Funding: NSERC
Hadis Farrokhi
2025-2025 (Undergraduate RA)
Project: DeFi Security
Funding: NSERC
Borna Ahmadzadegan
2024-2024 (Undergraduate RA)
Project: Interpretable Learning
Funding: NSERC
Xie He
2023-2023 (Research Assistant)
Project: Authorship Attribution
Funding: DARE
Mehrsa Khoshpasand
2022-2022 (Undergraduate RA)
Project: Network Security
Funding: NSERC-USRA
Osman Berk Er
2022-2023 (Undergraduate RA)
Project: UCS
Funding: NSERC
Elsie Benko
2022-2023 (Research Assistant)
Project: UCS
Funding: NSERC
Mitacs Global Research Internship
Alaa Souabni
Summer 2024
Project: Vulnerable SCs
Funding: Mitacs-GRI
Mateus Herbele
Summer 2025
Project: Encrypted Traffic
Funding: Mitacs-GRI
Bhaskar Joshi
Summer 2023
Project: Authorship Attribution
Funding: Mitacs-GRI
Aditya Raj
Summer 2024
Project: MQTT
Funding: Mitacs-GRI
Mohamed Aziz El Fadhel
Summer 2024
Project: Encrypted Traffic
Funding: Mitacs-GRI
Abhay Pratap Singh
Summer 2023
Project: Memory Analysis
Funding: Mitacs-GRI
Hardhik Mohanty
Summer 2022
Project: Encrypted Traffic Analysis
Funding: Mitacs-GRI
Nikhill Vombatkere
Summer 2022
Project: Authorship Attribution
Funding: Mitacs-GRI