Prof. Arash Habibi Lashkari, Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor of School of Information Technology, has been awarded the 2023 91亚色 Research Award.
Prof. Arash Habibi Lashkari is a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Cybersecurity. He is a Senior member of IEEE and an Associate Professor at 91亚色. His research focuses on cyber threat modeling and detection, malware analysis, big data security, internet traffic analysis, and cybersecurity dataset generation.聽
Prof. Lashkari has over 25 years of teaching experience, spanning several international universities, and was responsible for designing the first cybersecurity Capture the Flag (CTF) competition for post-secondary students in Canada. He has been the recipient of 15 awards at international computer security competitions - including three gold awards - and was recognized as one of鈥. In 2020, Dr. Lashkari was recognized with the University of New Brunswick鈥檚 prestigious Teaching Innovation Award for his personally-created teaching methodology, the鈥疢别迟丑辞诲.&苍产蝉辫;
He is the author of ten published books and more than 100 academic articles on a variety of cybersecurity-related topics and the co-author of the national award- winning article series, 鈥淯nderstanding Canadian Cybersecurity Laws鈥, which was recognized with a Gold Medal at the鈥.
Building on over two decades of concurrent industrial and development experience in network, software, and computer security, Dr. Lashkari鈥檚 current work involves the development of vulnerability detection technology to provide protection to network systems against cyberattacks. He simultaneously supervises multiple research and development teams who are working on several projects related to network traffic analysis, malware analysis, Honeynet and threat hunting.
We congratulate Dr. Lashkari on this significant achievement!聽