Keynote 3: Enhancing the Security and Resilience of the Smart Grid in Smart Cities

Mourad Debbabi is a Professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering and the Dean of the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science at Concordia University. He holds the NSERC/Hydro-Quebec Thales Senior Industrial Research Chair in Smart Grid Security and the Hon. Concordia Research Chair Tier I in Information Systems Security. He is a member of CATAAlliance’s Cybercrime Advisory Council. He serves/served on the boards of Canadian Police College, PROMPT Québec, and Calcul Québec. He was also a member of the Cybersecurity Advisory Board to the Minister for Government Digital Transformation. He is the founder and the Director of the Security Research Centre of Concordia University. Dr. Debbabi holds Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in computer science from Paris-XI Orsay, University, France. He published 7 books and more than 300 peer-reviewed research articles in international journals and conferences on cybersecurity, cyber forensics, smart grid, privacy, cryptographic protocols, threat intelligence generation, malware analysis, reverse engineering, specification and verification of safety-critical systems, programming languages, and type theory. He supervised to successful completion 33 Ph.D. students, 76 Master students, and 15 Postdoctoral Fellows. He served as a Senior Scientist at the Panasonic Information and Network Technologies Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, USA; Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department of Laval University, Canada; Senior Scientist at General Electric Research Center, New York, USA; Research Associate at the Computer Science Department of Stanford University, California, USA; and Permanent Researcher at the Bull Corporate Research Centre, Paris, France.