Paulo Shakarian


Paulo Shakarian is the CEO and co-founder of Cyber Reconnaissance, Inc.,, assistant professor at Arizona State University and an author of several books. His work on cyber threat intelligence and artificial intelligence has been featured in Forbes, the New Yorker, Slate, the Economist, Business Insider, TechCrunch, CNN and BBC.

Career

Shakarian was a major in the U.S Army serving from 2002 to 2014, undertaking two combat tours in Iraq and earning a Bronze Star and the Army Commendation Medal for valor. While in the army he was trained in Information Assurance and completed a bachelor's degree in computer science at the U.S. Military Academy. In 2007 he served as a military fellow at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Upon leaving the army he went on to study a master's degree in computer science at the University of Maryland in 2009, and later a Ph.D. in 2011. His research focus was cyber security, social network analysis and machine learning.
After obtaining a Ph.D. he taught at the U.S Military Academy, West Point, as an assistant professor from 2011 to 2014. In 2014 he took a position as an assistant professor at Arizona State University.
Since 2011 Shakarian has authored six books on subjects relating to his academic career.
In 2017, while maintaining his academic position he co-founded Cyber Reconnaissance, Inc.,, a business specializes in combining artificial intelligence with information mined from malicious hacker communities to avoid cyber-attacks.

Notable works

Books