Paulo Shakarian

Paulo Shakarian is an Assistant Professor at Arizona State specializing in cyber-security, social network analysis, and artificial intelligence, where he also directs the Cyber-Socio Intelligent Systems (CySIS) Laboratory.

His research has been featured in the media including the BBC, TechCrunch, The New York Times, The Economist, WIRED Magazine, Slate, and MIT Technology Review - where his work was included in their "Best of 2013" feature.

Paulo has authored several books, including Elsevier's “Introduction to Cyber-Warfare” and “Diffusion in Social Networks”, and Cambridge’s forthcoming “Darkweb Cyber Threat Intelligence Mining”.

Paulo is the founder and CEO of CyR3con and earned his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. Previously, Paulo served as an officer in the U.S. Army where he was awarded the Bronze Star, served two tours of duty in Iraq, and as a faculty member at West Point. See http://shakarian.net/paulo for more information.