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Professors

Ali A. Ghorbani

Dr. Ghorbani has held a variety of positions in academia for the past 22 years. He is currently a full professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at UNB.  Dr. Ghorbani's research originated in software development, where he designed and developed a number of large scale systems. His current research focus is Web intelligence, agent systems and trust & security. With over 10 years experience in high-tech development at major industrial corporations including experience in R&D supervision, he brings strong technological visionary skills and team leadership to FAST ID. Over the last three years, Ali Ghorbani has established a significant presence at UNB. He has published over 40 journals and refereed conference papers and has edited two volumes in the area of software development. Dr. Ghorbani together with two other members of the faculty received CFI fund to establish a research laboratory at the Faculty of Computer Science, UNB.  Dr. Ghorbani is the project leader for one of the successful first-round AIF (Atlantic Innovation Funds) projects. His project, “Adaptive Websites”, is valued at $1.05 million over 4.5 years.

Group Leader
ITD 419
458-7270
ghorbani@unb.ca
http://glass.cs.unb.ca

Steve Marsh

Steve Marsh is a Research Officer at in the National Research Council's Institute for Information Technology (NRC-IIT), an adjunct professor in Computer Science at UNB Fredericton, and an Adjunct Research Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa. He is the Research Lead for IIT's Privacy, Security and Trust initiative. He has been at NRC-IIT for 10 years, and in that time has worked on trust, distributed agent information systems (inventing the ACORN architecture), and computer supported collaborative work.

His PhD, finished in 1994 at the University of Stirling, in Scotland, introduced the world's first computationally tractable formalisation of the phenomenon of trust, and applied it to Multi Agent Systems. As a milestone in trust research, it brought together disparate disciplines and attempted to make sense of a vital phenomenon in human and artificial sociaties.

His research interests include trust (in general, and also in specific areas such as trustable and trusting agents and computers), HCI, socially adept technologies, artificial life, Multi Agent Systems, social computers, complex adaptive systems, and critical infrastructure interdependencies, advanced collaborative environments, and enabling technologies to support ordinary people trying to work and play together to accomplish extraordinary things. He has published in most of these areas and has over 30 pubications in refereed conferences, journals, and books, and has been an invited speaker on topics as diverse as collaboration between the Arts and the Sciences, Trust, and Multi-Agent Systems.

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Active Students

Mohammadreza Barouni-Ebrahimi

Mohammad is a Ph.D. candidate in Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick under supervision of Dr. Ali Ghorbani. He got his B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology (Tehran-Iran) in 1997 and M.Sc. degree in Machine Intelligence and Robotics from University of Tehran in 2000, with thesis entitled "Resolving the Rotational Lock Problem in a Team of Cooperative Object Handling Robots" under the supervision of Dr. Majid Nili.

His field of interest comprehends a wide range of computer engineering subjects, including: Adaptive Web Search Engines, Data Mining, Adaptive Web Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Robotics.

Ph.D. Student
Intelligent and Adaptive Systems Research Group, ITC215
458-7141

Homepage: http://glass.cs.unb.ca/~mohammad/
Email: Please concatenate "m.barouni" with "@unb.ca"

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Elijah Bitting

Elijah graduated from Bonar Law Memorial High in Rexton NB in 1996 and enrolled in the BCS program at UNB that same fall. He was very excited to be given the opportunity to stay on to pursue a master's degree at UNB after graduating with his BCS in 2001.

Elijah completed his master's degree with a thesis titled "Controlling Defamation in MAS" in the spring of 2003 and is now commencing a doctorate degree. Elijah is following a new line of research relating to collaborating agents for information sharing and dissemination. This work flows from work done on ACORN, the Agent-based Community Oriented Routing Network, developed by Steven Marsh (NRC Ottawa).

Ph.D. Student
Intelligent and Adaptive Systems Research Group, ITC215
458-7141
x71ed@unb.ca

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Ebrahim Bagheri

Ebrahim Bagheri joined the Computer Science Department as a PhD student in January 2006. Before coming to UNB, he spent six years at the Ferdowsi University, completing his B.S. in Computer Software Engineering and his M.Sc. specializing in Pervasive Computing Environments.At present, he is interested in Adaptive Systems, Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems and also the Application of Data Fusion Techniques to Software Engineering. An important aspect of his life includes his family.

Ph.D. Student
Intelligent and Adaptive Systems Research Group, ITC215
458-7141
E.Bagheri@unb.ca
http://glass.cs.unb.ca/~ebrahim/

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Mark Kilfoil

Mark Kilfoil graduated in 1996 with his Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. He worked as a software developer for a number of years, gaining experience in object-oriented UNIX software devlopment, distributed software systems, and security issues. Having recently completed his Master's Degree in Computer Science at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, Mark now pursues a Ph.D.

Mark's research interests include many aspects of artificial and machine intelligence. Mark is attached to the IAS research group, where he is currently studying Adaptive Web Systems, seeking to build intelligence into the clients, servers and systems on the Web with the goal of improving users' experiences, web site organization and web site development.

Ph.D. Student
HD116
458-7281
q3vh@unb.ca

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Eugenia Kondratova

Eugenia Kondratova completed her bachelor’s in Computer Science at UNB in 2004. She is currently doing her masters in the area of Information Filtering and Retrieval under the supervision of Dr. Steven Marsh and Dr. Ali Ghorbani. The goal of her thesis is to develop an adaptive information filter that considers multiple aspects of the user’s persona, including context, aspects of trust, group affiliations, etc.

In general, Eugenia’s research interests include the social elements of the relationship between humans and computers - Human Computer Interaction, as well as the study, and introduction of, social mechanisms within computer systems.

M.Sc. Student
Intelligent and Adaptive Systems Research Group, ITC215
458-7141
t3f7q@unb.ca

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Mehran Nadjarbashi-Noghani

Mehran is a Ph.D. candidate in Department of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick. He honorably graduated with BSc degree in Hardware Engineering from AmirKabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic) in 1997, and received his MSc in Computer Architecture from University of Tehran in 2000. Shortly after graduation, he joined a high-profile chip-design team in R&D branch of Valence Semiconductor, a California-based high-tech company. He worked for about two years and half as an embedded software developer / hardware designer before starting his Ph.D. study in May 2003 in Canada.

His field of interest comprehends a wide range of computer engineering subjects: Computer Architecture, Adaptive Architectures, Computer Networks, Network Security, among the others. He has also one year experience in architectural design of a network security system, working as a team member of a research group in Tehran Polytechnic.

He is currently a research member of two AIF projects at University of New Brunswick: Adaptive Web Systems and Fuzzy Adaptive Survivability Tool (aka FAST Intrusion Detection Systems). His major field of research as a Ph.D. candidate is Network Security, with a proposed thesis subject on differential intrusion detection and response.

Ph.D. Student
Intelligent and Adaptive Systems Research Group, HD116
458-7281
m.nadj@unb.ca

http://nsl.cs.unb.ca/mehran.html

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Iosif Viorel Onut

Iosif-Viorel Onut (Vio) is currently a graduate student at UNB, Computer-Science department, as a Ph.D., candidate. The main direction of his research is network intrusion detection and prevention systems.

In terms of his academic background, in 2003 he graduated Advanced Studies (Similar to M.Sc.) at Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Automation and Computers, Computer Science Department (Romania). In 2002 he got a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science, at the same university.

Ph.D. Student
Intelligent and Adaptive Systems Research Group, ITC314
453-4901
g66id@unb.ca
http://nsl.cs.unb.ca/vio

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Reza Zafarani

Reza Zafarani graduated from the University of Isfahan in April 2006. He is currently doing his Master's degree in Computer Science at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton.

Reza has special interests in various fields of computer science and mathematics including: Multi-Agent Systems, Machine Learning, Learning Theory, Cryptography, Stochastic Processes and Number Theory.

M.Sc. Student
Intelligent and Adaptive Systems Research Group, ITB215
458-7141
R dot Zafarani at UNB dot CA
http://glass.cs.unb.ca/~reza

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