Arash Lashkari
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolArash 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 Malaysiapostdoctoral fellowship, Cybersecurity, postdoctoral fellowship, Cybersecurity at University of New BrunswickBachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Islamic Azad UniversityMaster Degree, Computer Science (Computer Security), Master Degree, Computer Science (Computer Security) at University of Malaya
English, Persian
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Github Skills (24)
anomaly-detection10
cybersecurity10
denial-of-service10
ethernet10
malware10
android10
csv8
tor8
reserved8
android-app8
feature-extraction8
dns-over-https7
network-security7
vpn6
vulnerability4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ahlashkari/AuthAttLyzer
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:29 commits, 8 pushes in 8 months
ahlashkari/CICFlowMeter
Feb 2018 - Nov 2025
CICFlowmeter-V4.0 (formerly known as ISCXFlowMeter) is an Ethernet traffic Bi-flow generator and analyzer for anomaly detection that has been used in many Cybersecurity datsets such as Android Adware-General Malware dataset (CICAAGM2017), IPS/IDS dataset (CICIDS2017), Android Malware dataset (CICAndMal2017) and Distributed Denial of Service (CICDDoS2019).
Contributions:7 PRs, 102 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 10 months
androidanomaly-detectioncybersecuritydenial-of-serviceethernet
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