Current PhD and MSc Students

NAME YEAR DEGREE THESIS TOPIC AND CO-SUPERVISION
H. Mohan Rao 2020 PhD Alarm Correlation Analysis
M.H. Rahaman 2020 PhD Operator Response Modeling
J. Wei 2021 PhD Cyber-Security and Detection
S.A. Najafi 2023 PhD Alarm Flood Monitoring
Y. Tao 2023 PhD Alarm Configuration and Performance
M. Aliabadi 2023 MSc Alarm System Design
F. Goncalves 2023 MSc Mode-Based alarm Systems
A. Mashouf 2023 MSc Abnormal Situation Monitoring (with Dr. Z. Shu)


Current Research and Visiting Fellows

NAME YEAR POSITION RESEARCH AREA AND CO-SUPERVISION
L. Deng 2023 PDF AI-Enabled Process Modelling (with Dr. Z. Shu)
F. Jia 2024 PDF Fault Diagnosis and Alarm Systems
N. Yang 2024 PDF Alarm Monitoring and Event-Triggered Systems
Z. Guo 2025 PDF Cyber-Security in Networked Control Systems


Recently Completed PhD and MSc Students

NAME DATE OF COMPLETION DEGREE THESIS TITLE CURRENT AFFILIATION
Z. Guo Aug. 2025 PhD Resource-Aware Strategic Attack and Defense in Cyber-Physical Systems: Analysis and Design UofA.
Y. Rahimi Aug. 2024 MSc Advanced Alarm Systems: Optimal Design, Performance Comparison, and Alarm Flood Monitoring Pipewise, Calgary.
J.L. Li Aug. 2024 MSc Dynamic Periodic Event-triggered Multi-Agent Consensus Using Relative-State Measurements: A Hybrid System Approach DND, Ottawa.
M.R. Parvez Oct. 2023 PhD Development of Data-Driven Methods for Alarm Flood Monitoring and Analysis Texas A&M University, USA.
L. Deng Aug. 2023 PhD Event-Triggered Robust Model Predictive Control UofA.
H.S. Alinezhad June 2023 PhD Advanced Machine Learning-Based Alarm Flood Monitoring Using Alarm Data HV Logic, Calgary.
M.H. Dhullipalla March 2023 PhD Networked Implementation of Continuous-Time Distributed Algorithms: A Hybrid System Approach KTH, Sweden.
Z. Cheng Aug. 2022 MSc Vulnerability of Cyber-Physical Systems to Optimal Stealthy Deterministic Attack Strategies Spartan Controls, Edmonton.
J. Zhou Aug. 2022 PhD Optimal Cyber-Attacks under Energy and Stealthiness Constraints in Cyber-Physical Systems Central South University, Changsha.
J. Yang Dec. 2021 PhD Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems Huawei, Beijing.
K. Wang Jan. 2021 MSc A Data-Driven Method to Discover Association Rules of Mode-Dependent Alarms Accenture, Vancouver.
B. Zhou Jan. 2021 PhD Advanced Methods for Alarm Monitoring and Alarm Flood Analysis Based on Industrial Data Enverus, Calgary.
M.H. Roohi Jan. 2021 PhD Control and Alarm Systems Interplay and Co-Design Micro Focus, Toronto.
I. Amini Dec. 2020 MSc Data-Driven Methods in Pipeline Leakage Detection PulseMedica, Edmonton.


Last updated October 10, 2025.