Research Interests

The increasing integration of digital technologies into everyday life has transformed not only how we communicate, work, and interact, but also how crime is committed, investigated, and prosecuted. The use of technologies to facilitate crimes such as intellectual property theft, fraud, computer intrusions, harassment, and violent crime continues to increase, creating a digital dimension to criminal activity and new challenges for the identification, preservation, analysis, and interpretation of digital evidence in investigations. My research in digital forensics addresses these challenges by developing reliable methods for the authentication, identification, classification, reconstruction, and evaluation of digital evidence across emerging computing environments. More broadly, my research seeks to understand how technological systems shape security, privacy, and participation in society and to develop solutions that promote both trustworthy digital evidence and greater digital inclusion in our society. 

My current research focus are in:  

• Digital forensics 

• Database forensics

• Digital document examinations

• Data security and data privacy

• Artificial intelligence (AI) in policing

• Mobile security and privacy for older adults 

• Cybersecurity

Research Supervision (Past and Current Students)

MSc Students

• Prerit Bhandari(2025-2027)

• Hardi Matholia (2024-2026)

• Farhan Zaman (2024-2026)

• Nayeem Khan (2024-2026)

• Muhammad Moiz Zia (2023-2025)

• Jenisha Patel (2022-2023)

• Ramandeep Kaur (2022-2023)

Undergraduate Students and Interns 

• Sean Diotay (NSERC USRA, 2026)

• Royce Arugay (Course project, 2026)

• Gurneet Kaur (Work-Study program, 2025-2026, 2026-2027)

• Khaleel-Ali Quasem (Mitacs Globalink Intern, 2026)

• Areeba Butt (Mitacs Globalink Intern, 2026)

• Salsabil Guerbej (Mitacs Globalink Intern, 2026)

• Curie Gupta (Work-Study program, USRA-I, 2024-2025)

• Hassan Mohammad (Work-Study program, 2024-2025, 2025-2026)

• Muriki Yamanaka (Mitacs Globalink Intern, 2025)

• Gustavo da Costa Markowicz (Mitacs Globalink Intern, 2024)

• Anusha Waseem (Mitacs Globalink Intern, 2024)

• Shailee Lad (Research Assistant, 2023)

• Bhavye Malhotra (Mitacs Globalink Intern, 2023) 

Graduate Research Assistants

• Faith Akinyemi (2025-2026)

• Hardi Matholia (2025-2026)

• Muhammad Moiz Zia (2025-2026)

• Fatima Mouri (2024)

Research Supervision (Prospective Students)

If you are a student who is interested in studying towards a Postgraduate degree or an undergraduate student who is interested in short term research on any of the areas listed above, please send me an email including a copy of your academic transcript and a short description of your research interests.