Omar Abdul Wahab
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering
Department of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering
Primary sphere of excellence in research
New Frontiers in Information and Communication Technologies
New Frontiers in Information and Communication Technologies
Secondary sphere(s) of excellence in research
Sustainable Transport and Infrastructures Industry of the Future and Digital Society
Sustainable Transport and Infrastructures Industry of the Future and Digital Society
Student research project(s)
Research interests and affiliations
Research interests
- Cybersecurity
- Internet of Things
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cloud Computing Security
Expertise type(s) (NSERC subjects)
- 2700 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
- 2704 Distributed and parallel processing
- 2715 Optimization
- 2800 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Computer Vision, use 2603)
Publications
Recent publications
Journal article
Journal article
Conference paper
Conference paper
Arisdakessian, S., Wehbi, O., Abdul Wahab, O., Mourad, A., Otrok, H., & Guizani, M. (2025). A Two-Level Dirichlet Framework for Heterogeneous Federated Network. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.
Arisdakessian, S., Wehbi, O., Abdul Wahab, O., Mourad, A., & Otrok, H. (2025). Towards Vox Populi in Federated Learning: A Fair and Inclusive Client Selection Framework. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 1, 1-15.
Arisdakessian, S., Abdul Wahab, O., Wehbi, O., Mourad, A., & Otrok, H. (2024, September). Detecting Free-Riders in Federated Learning Using an Ensemble of Similarity Distance Metrics [Paper]. 4th Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC 2024), Valencia, Spain.
Abdul Wahab, O. (2024, November). Dynamic Threat Intelligence Coalitions for Improved Cyber Defense Capabilities [Paper]. IEEE 13th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet 2024), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Biography
Omar Abdul Wahab is an assistant professor at Polytechnique Montréal. He obtained his PhD in information systems engineering from Concordia University in 2017. From 2017 to 2018, he did his postdoc at the École de technologie supérieure, where he worked on a research project in collaboration with Rogers and Ericsson. Omar obtained his bachelor's degree in computer mangement from the Lebanese University and his master's degree in computer science from the Lebanese American University. His research interests are in the fields of cybersecurity, Internet of Things and artificial intelligence.
Teaching
INF8107 Intrusion Detection and Monitoring
INF8108 Cyber-threat Management and Hunting
Education
- PhD in Information Systems Engineering , Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
- Master of Computer Science, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon
- Bachelor in Computer Management, Lebanese University, Tripoli, Lebanon
Supervision at Polytechnique
IN PROGRESS
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Ph.D. (2)
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Arisdakessian, Sarhad. Robust and Fair Federated Learning in the presence of Free-Riders.
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Wehbi, Osama. Detection of Backdoor Attacks on Federared Learning.
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Master (thesis) (1)
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Rahali, Ranim. Improving Open-Set Intrusion Detection in Autonomous Vehicles.
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Press review about Omar Abdul Wahab
January 10, 2025,
ICI Nouvelle Alberta,
Pourquoi les données d’enfants sont-elles visées par des cyberattaques?
Omar Abdul Wahab, professeur au Département de génie informatique et génie logiciel, intervient sur la cyberattaque du logiciel PowerSchool, utilisé dans plusieurs établissements manitobains.
Other mentions:
ICI Première Alberta (à 4min.)
January 9, 2025,
ICI Télé Alberta,
Le téléjournal Alberta | Épisode du jeudi 9 janvier 2025
Omar Abdul Wahab, professeur au Département de génie informatique et génie logiciel, intervient sur la cyberattaque du logiciel PowerSchool, utilisé dans plusieurs établissements manitobains (à 2min.).
