He received a Doctorate degree in Informatics from The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan. Prior to joining Ryerson University in 2014, Dr. Nurul worked at Humber College and York University. He teaches a variety of topics in Information Technology including Information Systems Security and Privacy, Network Administration, IT Infrastructure, Data Communications Network Design, Programming Fundamentals, System Analysis and Design and Database Design. During the 2014-2015 academic years, he contributed significantly in the development of the Business Technology Management curriculum.Dr. Nurul's research interests include privacy enhancing technologies, privacy issues in big data, privacy preserving utilization of web access logs, patient privacy in health data management, routing protocols and architectures for mobile ad hoc networks and delay-tolerant networks.