Arash Habibi Lashkari

Dr. Arash Habibi Lashkari is a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Cybersecurity. As the founder and director of the Behaciour-Centric Cybersecurity Center (BCCC) and co-founder of the Cyber Security Cartoon Award (CSCA), he is a Senior member of IEEE and an Associate Professor at York University. His research focuses on cyber threat modeling and detection, malware analysis, big data security, internet traffic analysis, and cybersecurity dataset generation. 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 been the recipient of 15 awards at international computer security competitions - including three gold awards - and was recognized as one of Canada’s Top 150 Researchers for 2017. He is the author of ten published books and more than 120 academic articles on a variety of cybersecurity-related topics and the co-author of the national award-winning article series, “Understanding Canadian Cybersecurity Laws”, which was recently recognized with a Gold Medal at the 2020 Canadian Online Publishing Awards, remotely held in 2021.

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