Summary
Arash Lashkari is a Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity and Full Professor leading York University’s Behaviour-Centric Cybersecurity Center, with two decades of concurrent academic and industrial experience across network, malware and traffic analysis. He builds research-to-practice pipelines—producing landmark IDS/IPS datasets (e.g., CSE-CIC-IDS2018), creating Canada’s first post-secondary CTF, and spinning out cybersecurity analyzers as part of a national knowledge mobilization program. An award-winning educator and innovator, he devised the Think-Que-Cussion teaching method and has authored ten books and over 110 papers on threat modeling, honeynets, and vulnerability detection. He routinely coordinates multi-institutional projects with industry and government (IBM, Bell, CIRA, CSE, Lockheed Martin), supervising multiple R&D teams to turn behavioral insights into deployable defenses.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science (Information Security), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science (Information Security) at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
postdoctoral fellowship, Cybersecurity, postdoctoral fellowship, Cybersecurity at University of New Brunswick
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Islamic Azad University
Master Degree, Computer Science (Computer Security), Master Degree, Computer Science (Computer Security) at University of Malaya
English, Persian