Award - Research Oral Presentation

Congratulations to Mohamod Ehsanul Haque (Ehsan) for winning the Research Oral Presentation Award at the Science Atlantic Conference at Cape Breton University (October 18)! Ehsan is an Honours student at CILS Lab researching Intrusion Detection Systems and AI. We are so proud of you!

   

 

Mitacs Interns Wrap Up!

Our three Mitacs Globalink Research Interns — Hamza Blagui, Oussama Kirmani, and Hassen Gadacha — have successfully completed three months of intensive AI research at the Jodrey School of Computer Science. They showcased their findings in a CS seminar presentation. Outstanding work, team!

   

 

Honours Thesis - IEEE Publication

Huge congratulations to Hamza Ben Alla whose Honours Thesis work has been published as an IEEE paper! The paper was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science in August 2025.

Here is the link to the paper: Link

 

Honours Thesis - IEEE Publication

Congratulations to Joy Ndirangu whose Honours Thesis has been published as an IEEE paper! The paper was presented at the IEEE Workshop on AI for Healthcare in August 2025. Fantastic achievement, Joy!

Here is the link to the paper: Link

 

Welcome — New Master's Student!

We are thrilled to welcome Mohamed Khattab as our newest thesis-based Master's student! Mohamed's research will focus on Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning for Healthcare — an exciting and impactful area. Welcome to the CILS family, Mohamed!

   

Talk - Google DeepMind

Members of the CILS Lab had the privilege of attending an inspiring talk by Dr. Ed H. Chi from Google DeepMind at the IEEE IRI Conference. A fantastic opportunity to hear from one of the leading minds in AI!

   

 

Welcome - Mitacs Interns

We are excited to welcome Hamza Blagui (ENSI Tunis) as Mitacs Globalink Research Interns for the summer! Hamza will be working on medical image analysis using Neuromorphic technology

   

 

Welcome - Mitacs Interns

We are excited to welcome Hassen Gadacha (ENSI Tunis) as Mitacs Globalink Research Interns for the summer! Hassen will focus on adding interpretability to Deep Learning models for medical image analysis

   

 

CRV conference

Dr. Andrew McIntyre presented papers on the Weeds and Crops dataset at the Computer and Robot Vision (CRV) Conference. Representing CILS on the national stage!

   

 

Canadian AI Conference

Errol represented CILS Lab at the Canadian AI Conference in Calgary, presenting cutting-edge research to a national audience. Well done!

   

 

 

Atlantic AI summit 2025

CILS Lab was invited to give a talk on Privacy-Preserving AI at the Atlantic AI Summit 2025. A big thank you to Dr. McIntyre and the organizing committee for the invitation. It was a wonderful opportunity to share our research with the broader AI community!