Professor Yuri Lawryshyn received his BASc, MASc and Phd degrees in engineering at the University of Toronto, an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business (University of Western Ontario) and a Financial Engineering Diploma from the Schulich School of Business (York University). After spending over 10 years in industry, Professor Lawryshyn joined the Centre for Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship (CMTE) at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Toronto as a faculty member. Since joining the CMTE, Professor Lawryshyn has supervised over 150 projects including topics related to financial modelling, trading, econometrics, customer analytics, operational risk, cyber security and FinTech. Professor Lawryshyn specializes in numerical modelling, financial modelling and real options analysis, and is now expanding his research scope in areas related to data science and machine learning.

He has been listed as an inventor on nine patents, has co-authored over 40 peer reviewed publications and over 100 conference presentations, and currently holds the Joseph C. Paradi Chair in Information Engineering at the University.