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Recent News!

• 03/12/2025: I will be presenting a talk as part of the seminar series by the Jodrey School of Computer Science, Acadia University: "Advancing AI Innovation and Governance"
• 01/01/2025: I am now an Associate Director in charge of Sheridan's Centre for Applied AI (CAAI). "Center for Applied AI"
• 01/01/2024: I have joined Sheridan's Centre for Applied AI as a Research Manager. "Center for Applied AI"
• 07/01/2023: I am one of the judges in the first ever made right here entrepreneurship Diversity Atlantic Awards for excellence in diversity and inclusion hosted by TD and Advocate. "2023 Diversity Atlantic Awards"
• 07/01/2023: I will be teaching the following modules during the CIC's 2023 RICKS Program: "Social Engineering and Ethical Hacking, Data Analytics, and SIEM"
• 02/18/2023: I will be teaching the 2023 Digital Forensics Summer Course "Digital Forensics"
• 10/01/2022: I will be taking the role: Talent Development Manager at CIC: "Check my LinkedIn Page"
• 06/01/2022: I will be teaching the following modules during the CIC's 2022 RICKS Program: "Social Engineering and Ethical Hacking, Data Analytics, and SIEM"
• 04/01/2022: I am the Publication Chair for PST2022 and will be facilitating the workshop on "Understanding Social Engineering & Ethical Hacking"
• 02/18/2022: I will be teaching the 2022 Digital Forensics Summer Course "Digital Forensics"
• 10/05/2021: Meet Cybersecurity Experts (2021 CIC Webinar Series) Presentation "Securing the Weakest Link in Cybersecurity"
• 08/27/2021: BigDataService 2021 Best Paper Award for the paper co-authored with Tariq, Ahmed, Farhana during my Postdoc at Queen's. The paper was presented during the 7th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Machine Learning Applications (August 23-26, 2021) and is titled "Incremental Community Detection in Distributed Dynamic Graph"
• 05/25/2021: Research Blog "Interpreting AI-based Cybercrime Prediction"
• 05/21/2021: Cybersecurity Revolution (SECREV) 2021 Presentation "Interpreting AI-based Cybercrime Prediction"
• 11/20/2020: CIC IoT Lab Implementation Co-ordinator I currently lead the implementation of CIC's IoT Lab for Cybersecurity research and training
• 11/13/2020: Meet Cybersecurity Experts (2020 CIC Webinar Series) Presentation "Real-time Analytics for Cybersecurity"
• 08/06/2020: Research Blog "Security and Data Privacy in 5G and Next Generation IoT Networks"
• 05/13/2020: Research Blog "COVID-19 Contact Tracing: Privacy Threats and Data Protection Recommendations"
• 03/02/2020: New Role I am currently a Research Associate and Team Lead at CIC, University of New Brunswick (UNB), Fredericton

I am an experienced leader in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity with over a decade of expertise in applied research, strategic planning, and fostering innovation. As the Associate Director of Sheridan’s Centre for Applied AI, I focus on driving impactful research and industry partnerships that solve real-world challenges. My work bridges academia and industry, delivering transformative AI solutions while creating value for students, empowering faculty, and enhancing community outcomes. I have a strong track record in securing funding, mentoring talent, and managing multi-disciplinary teams to execute cutting-edge projects in AI and machine learning. Passionate about leveraging AI for societal impact, I am committed to cultivating collaborative partnerships and empowering the next generation of innovators in AI and technology.

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Journal Publications

• Knowledge-Based Systems "A survey on Deep Learning in Edge-Cloud Collaboration: Model partitioning, privacy preservation, and prospects", Xichen Zhang, Roozbeh Razavi-Far, Haruna Isah, Amir David, Griffin Higgins, Michael Zhang, Knowledge-Based Systems, 2025.
• Knowledge-Based Systems "Area in circle: A novel evaluation metric for object detection", Xichen Zhang, Roozbeh Razavi-Far, Haruna Isah, Amir David, Griffin Higgins, Rongxing Lu, Ali A Ghorbani, Knowledge-Based Systems, 2024.
• IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems "Detecting and Mitigating the Dissemination of Fake News: Challenges and Future Research Opportunities", Shahid, Wajiha, Bahman Jamshidi, Saqib Hakak, Haruna Isah, Wazir Zada Khan, Muhammad Khurram Khan, and Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2022.
• International Journal of Information and Computer Security "Data Breach: Analysis, Countermeasures, and Challenges", Xichen Zhang, Mohammad Mehdi Yadollahi, Dadkhah Sajjad, Haruna Isah, Hamid Azimy, Duc-Phong Le, Ali A. Ghorbani, IJICS.
• IEEE Access "A Survey of Distributed Data Stream Processing Frameworks", Haruna Isah, Tariq Abughofa, Sazia Mahfuz, Dharmitha Ajerla, Farhana Zulkernine, and Shahzad Khan, IEEE Access. 2019, 7, 154300 - 154316.
• IJFS "Stock Market Analysis: A Review and Taxonomy of Prediction Techniques", Dev Shah, Haruna Isah, and Farhana Zulkernine, International Journal of Financial Studies. 2019, 7(2), 26.

Conference and Workshop Publications

• IBDAP'20 "A Big Data Lake for Multilevel Streaming Analytics", Ruoran Liu, Haruna Isah, and Farhana Zulkernine The International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Practices (IBDAP 2020), September 25-26, 2020, Virtual.
• IBDAP'20 "Towards a Natural Language Query Processing System", Chantal Montgomery, Haruna Isah, and Farhana Zulkernine The International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Practices (IBDAP 2020), September 25-26, 2020, Virtual.
• ICMLA'19 "A Voice Interactive Multilingual Student Support System using IBM Watson", Kennedy Raltson, Yuhao Chen, Haruna Isah, and Farhana Zulkernine 18th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications - ICMLA 2019, December 16-19, Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
• CASCON'19 "A Hands-on Tutorial on Deep Learning for Object and Pattern Recognition", Farhana Zulkernine, Haruna Isah, Sazia Mahfuz, Mohammed Gasmallah, Jason Lam, and Shahzad Khan, 29th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, November 4 - 6, 2019, Hilton Toronto/Markham Suites Conference Center and Spa.
• IEEE COMPSAC'19 "Xu: An Automated Query Expansion and Optimization Tool", Morgan Gallant, Haruna Isah, Farhana Zulkernine, and Shahzad Khan The 2019 IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Computers, Software and Applications (IEEE COMPSAC 2019), July 15-19, 2019, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
• IEEE COMPSAC'19 "A Scalable Framework for Multilevel Streaming Data Analytics using Deep Learning", Shihao Ge, Haruna Isah, Farhana Zulkernine, and Shahzad Khan The 2019 IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Computers, Software and Applications (IEEE COMPSAC 2019), July 15-19, 2019, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
• IEEE BigData'18 "A Scalable and Robust Framework for Data Streams Ingestion", Haruna Isah and Farhana Zulkernine, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2018), December 10-13, 2018, Seattle, WA, USA.
• IEEE BigData'18 "Predicting the Effects of News Sentiments on the Stock Market", Dev Shah, Haruna Isah, and Farhana Zulkernine, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2018), December 10-13, 2018, Seattle, WA, USA.
• IEEE IEMCON'18 "A Voice Controlled E-Commerce Web Application", Mandeep Singh Kandhari, Farhana Zulkernine, and Haruna Isah, The 9th IEEE Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEEE IEMCON 2018), University of British Columbia, Vancouver,Canada, 1 - 3 November 2018.
• IEEE IEMCON'18 "Detecting Irregular Patterns in IoT Streaming Data for Fall Detection", Sazia Mahfuz, Haruna Isah, Farhana Zulkernine and Pete Nicholls, The 9th IEEE Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEEE IEMCON 2018), University of British Columbia, Vancouver,Canada, 1 - 3 November 2018.
• CASCON'18 "Large-Scale Multilevel Streaming Data Analytics", Farhana Zulkernine, Haruna Isah, Sidney Givigi, Yan Liu, Edward Shim, Marwa Elsayed, 28th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, October 29 - 31, 2018, Hilton Toronto/Markham Suites Conference Center and Spa.
• IEEE IDREC'18 "The use of Virtual Reality in Enhancing Interdisciplinary Research and Education", Tiffany Leung, Farhana Zulkernine, and Haruna Isah, the special track on Inter-Disciplinary Research, Education, and Communication (IDREC 2018).
• PhD Thesis'17 "Social Data Mining for Crime Intelligence: Contributions to Social Data Quality Assessment and Prediction Methods", Haruna Isah, University of Bradford, 2017.
• ASONAM'15 "Bipartite Network Model for Inferring Hidden Ties in Crime Data", Haruna Isah, Daniel Neagu, and Paul Trundle, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2015, Paris, France, August 25-28, 2015.
• UKCI'14 "Social media analysis for product safety using text mining and sentiment analysis", Haruna Isah, Daniel Neagu, and Paul Trundle, 14th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI), Bradford, UK, September 8-10, 2014.
• MSc Thesis'12 "Full Data Controlled Web Based Feed Aggregator: Open Source and Feed Syndication in Research, Intelligence Gathering, Information Sharing and Business Enterprise", Haruna Isah, Lambert Academic Publishing (LAP), 2012.

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Selected Talks

• Acadia University Seminar'25 Seminar Series by the Jodrey School of Computer Science Acadia University, Advancing AI Innovation and Governance, March 12th, 2025.
• SECREV'21 Cybersecurity Revolution 2021 Presentation, Interpreting AI-based Cybercrime Prediction, May 21st, 2021.
• CIC Webinar Series'20 Meet Cybersecurity Experts, Real-time Analytics for Cybersecurity, November 13th, 2020.
• Advance Ontario'19 SOSCIP 3 Minute Impact Competition, Spot and Stop Fake News: Using Deep Learning to Predict the Veracity of News Streams, May 15th-16th, 2019.
• CASCON'18 Technology Expo at CASCON 2018, A Multilevel Streaming Data Analytics Infrastructure for Predictive Analytics, October 30th, 2018.
• Postdoc-Showcase'18 Queens Post-Doc Research Showcase & Reception, BAM-Lab/Gnowit Collaboration, Impact, and Success Stories, September 20th, 2018.
• OARCC'18 SOSCIP Postdoctoral Fellows Lightning Round Competition, A Multilevel Streaming Data Analytics Infrastructure for Predictive Analytics, May 16th, 2018.
• ML-CI'15 Machine Learning: A Computational Intelligence Approach MLCI 2015 (3rd edition), Sentiment Analysis of User-Generated Contents for Pharmaceutical Product Safety, July 8th, 2015.
• ACM-UoB'15 University of Bradford ACM Student Chapter Seminar, Research Opportunities and Challenges in Big Data: BigDat2015 Lessons, June 11th, 2015.

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Selected Awards

• BigDataService'21 Best Paper Award, for the paper co-authored with Tariq, Ahmed, Farhana during my Postdoc at Queen's. The paper was presented during the 7th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Machine Learning Applications (August 23-26, 2021) and is titled "Incremental Community Detection in Distributed Dynamic Graph".
• Advance Ontario'19 Finalist, 3 Minute Impact Competition, MaRS Discovery District, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 15-16, 2019.
• SGS'18 Queen's University Post-Doctoral Travel Award, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Seattle, WA, USA, December 10-13, 2018.
• OARCC'18 Finalist, SOSCIP/Compute Ontario Postdoctoral Fellows Lightning Round Competition, MaRS Discovery District, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 16, 2018.
• WAW'15 School on Complex Networks and Graph Models Travel Award, EURANDOM, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, December 7-8, 2015.

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Professional Services

Recent Student & Industry Project Supervision

• Gregory William Kean: 2023 Master of Applied Cybersecurity (MACSec) Summer Term Capstone Project (CS6495) (Title: Automated Malware Analysis Framework for Threat Detection and Response) Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity (CIC), Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick.
• Gideon Soremekun: 2023 Master of Applied Cybersecurity (MACSec) Summer Term Capstone Project (CS6495) (Title: Comprehensive Study of Threat Hunting with Windows Event Logs) Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity (CIC), Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick.
• Griffin Higgins: 2022 Master of Applied Cybersecurity (MACSec) Summer Term Capstone Project (CS6495) (Title: Towards a Cyber Threat Intelligence Informed Risk Taxonomy: Rethinking MITRE ATT&CK Data Visualization) Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity (CIC), Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick.
• Anh Le: 2022 Master of Applied Cybersecurity (MACSec) Summer Term Capstone Project (CS6495) (Title: Data Privacy Protection in Deep Learning Inference: Improving the Protection of Sensitive Data in Split Learning) Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity (CIC), Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick.
• Craig William Beaman: 2021 Master of Applied Cybersecurity (MACSec) Summer Term Capstone Project (CS6495) (Title: ML-based Anomaly Detection in Email Headers) Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity (CIC), Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick.
• Cameron Dhar: Industry Colloborative Project (May-October 2020), Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity (CIC), Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick
• Laya Taheri: Industry Colloborative Project (March-August 2020), Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity (CIC), Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick
• Chantal Montgomery: 2019 Undergraduate Project (Title: Cloud interface for voice/text enabled query processing) Big-Data Analytics and Management Laboratory (BAM Lab), School of Computing, Queen's University.
• Grace Ge: 2019 Undergraduate Project (Title: Streaming data ingestion and analytic workflow management) Big-Data Analytics and Management Laboratory (BAM Lab), School of Computing, Queen's University.
• Ruoran Liu: 2019 Undergraduate Project (Title: Distributed data management and integration for Peoplesoft) Big-Data Analytics and Management Laboratory (BAM Lab), School of Computing, Queen's University.
• Morgan Gallant: 2018 Summer Internship (Title: Query extension for natural language query processing.) Big-Data Analytics and Management Laboratory (BAM Lab), School of Computing, Queen's University.
• Thibault Brossard: 2015 Summer Internship (Title: Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Data for Combating Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals.) Artificial Intelligence Research Group, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Bradford.

Recent Teaching and Lab Demonstration

• Research Intensive Cyber Knowledge Studies (RICKS) Technical Module: 2022 & 2023 Fall Terms (Understanding Social Engineering and Ethical Hacking) Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity (CIC), Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick.
• Research Intensive Cyber Knowledge Studies (RICKS) Technical Module: 2022 & 2023 Fall Terms (Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)) Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity (CIC), Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick.
• Research Intensive Cyber Knowledge Studies (RICKS) Technical Module: 2022 & 2023 Fall Terms (Data Analytics) Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity (CIC), Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick.
• MACSec Course: CS*4419-FRE1A: 2022 & 2023 Summer Terms (Digital Forensics) Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick.
• Research Intensive Cyber Knowledge Studies (RICKS) Technical Module: 2021 Fall Term (Understanding Human Behaviour for Social Engineering) Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity (CIC), Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick.
• CM-0425M/1072D: 2015-2016 (Data Mining) School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Bradford.
• COS4003-B: 2016 (Developing Professional Skills) School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Bradford.

Conference, Workshop, and Symposium Committees

• PST '22: 2022(Publication Chair) [The 19th Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security & Trust (PST2022)].
• CASCON '19: 2019(A Hands-on Tutorial on Deep Learning for Object and Pattern Recognition Workshop Co-chair with Farhana Zulkernine) [29th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering].
• IEEE IEMCON '18: 2018(Sessions Chair) [The 9th IEEE Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEEE IEMCON 2018)].
• CASCON '18: 2018(Large-Scale Multilevel Streaming Data Analytics Workshop Co-chair with Farhana Zulkernine) [28th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering].
• ICCSW '15: 2015(University of Bradford Ambassador) [2015 Imperial College Computing Student Workshop].
• UKCI '14: 2014(Organizing Committee Member ) [14th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence UKCI2014].

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