Dr. Arash Habibi Lashkari is a full professor and Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Cybersecurity. As the founder and director of the Behaviour-Centric Cybersecurity Center (BCCC) and co-founder of the , he is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Professor at 91亚色. He also serves as an Editorial Board Member of Computers & Security (Elsevier), Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio), and Computational Intelligence (Wiley). His research focuses on cyber threat modeling and detection, malware analysis, big data security, internet traffic analysis, and generating cybersecurity datasets.
Dr. Lashkari has over 27 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 received 15 awards at international computer security competitions鈥攊ncluding three gold awards鈥攁nd was recognized as one of聽. 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聽听惭别迟丑辞诲.
He is the author of ten published books and more than 100 academic articles on a variety of cybersecurity-related topics. He is also the co-author of the national award-winning article series Understanding Canadian Cybersecurity Laws, which was recently recognized with a Gold Medal at the , held remotely in 2021.
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 protect network systems against cyberattacks. He simultaneously supervises multiple research and development teams working on several projects related to network traffic analysis, malware analysis, Honeynet and threat hunting.