Short biography:

Benjamin Fung is a Full Professor in the School of Information Studies (SIS), Canada Research Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity, and an Associate Member in the School of Computer Science (SOCS) at McGill University. He previously served as an Associate Editor (AE) for IEEE Transactions of Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) and is currently serving as an AE for Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS). He received a Ph.D. degree in computing science from Simon Fraser University in 2007. Benjamin has over 180 refereed publications, with more than 17,000 citations and h-index 62, that span the research areas of data mining, machine learning, privacy protection, cybersecurity, and building engineering. His data mining works in crime investigation and authorship analysis have been reported by the media worldwide.

Benjamin's research has been supported in part by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC), National Cybersecurity Consortium (NCC), and Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT). He is a Researcher Council Member of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, the Principal Investigator of the McGill Data Mining and Security Lab (DMaS), an Affiliate Faculty of McGill Digital Humanities Initiatives, and an Associate Academic Member of MILA. He previously worked at SAP Business Objects for four years. He is a licensed professional engineer^* in software engineering.

^{*registered in Ontario}

Career summary:
2025~	Member, Computational and Data Systems Institute (CDSI), McGill University
2024~	Affiliate Professor, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE), Concordia University
2024~	Associate Member, Center on Multidimensional Conflicts, Chaire Raoul-Dandurand en études stratégiques et diplomatiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
2020~	Full Professor, Information Studies, McGill University
2017~	Associate Editor, Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS) [impact factor: 11.7]
2017~	Associate Member, MILA (video)
2016~	Associate Member, Computer Science, McGill University
2021~	Top 2% scientists worldwide identified by Stanford University
2015~2025	Canada Research Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity (letters)
2019~2024	Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) [impact factor: 9.235]
2021~2023	Graduate Program Director (GPD) - Master's & GC, SIS, McGill University
2013~2022	Affiliate Associate Professor, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE), Concordia University
2016~2021	Co-curator (Cyber Security), World Economic Forum (WEF)
2013~2020	Associate Professor, Information Studies, McGill University
2013	ACM Senior Member
2013	IEEE Senior Member
2013	Tenured at McGill University
2013	Tenured at Concordia University
2011~2013	Associate Professor, Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University
2009	P.Eng., Software Engineering, Professional Engineers Ontario
2007~2011	Assistant Professor, Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University
2003~2007	Ph.D., Computing Science, Simon Fraser University
2000~2002	M.Sc., Computing Science, Simon Fraser University
1999~2003	System Software Developer, SAP Business Objects
1994~1999	B.Sc., Computing Science (Software Engineering), Simon Fraser University
1990~1994	Secondary School, Richmond, BC, Canada
Born	Free Hong Kong