Benjamin C. M. Fung
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Canada Research Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity
- Graduate Program Director of MISt & Graduate Certificates
- Professor, School of Information Studies, McGill University, Canada
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Associate Member, School of Computer Science, McGill University, Canada
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Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
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Associate Editor, Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS)
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Ph.D., M.Sc., B.Sc., Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada
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P.Eng., Software Engineering, Professional Engineers Ontario, Canada
Research interests: |
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- Data mining |
- Artificial intelligence |
- Data
privacy |
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Machine learning |
- Cybersecurity |
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Applications: |
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- Health
informatics |
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Smart cities and transportation |
- Crime investigation |
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Building occupant behaviour analytics |
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Malware analysis |
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Authorship analysis |
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News:
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Recruitment notice: Graduate students in
deep learning for cybersecurity (Out of my 9 graduated PhDs, 8 are professors.)
Short biography:
Benjamin Fung is a
Canada Research Chair in Data
Mining for Cybersecurity, a Full Professor in the School of Information Studies (SIS),
an Associate Member in the School of Computer Science (SOCS)
at
McGill University,
and a Co-curator of Cybersecurity in the World Economic Forum (WEF).
He also serves as Associate Editors for IEEE Transactions of Knowledge and Data Engineering
(TKDE) and Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS).
He received a Ph.D. degree in computing science from Simon Fraser
University in 2007. Benjamin has over
130 refereed publications, with more than 10,000 citations, 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 media
worldwide.
Benjamin's research
has been supported in part by Natural Sciences
and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
(SSHRC), Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC), and Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT).
He is a
Researcher Council Member of the New Digital Research Infrastructure Organization (NDRIO),
the Principal Investigator of the McGill Data Mining and Security Lab (DMaS),
an Associate Academic Member of MILA,
an Affiliate Faculty of McGill Digital Humanities Initiatives, and an Affiliate Associate Professor of
Information Systems Engineering
at Concordia University.
He previously worked
at
SAP
Business Objects for four years. He is a licensed professional engineer*
in software engineering.
*registered in Ontario
Career summary: |
2020~ |
Full Professor,
Information Studies, McGill University |
2019~ |
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on
Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) |
2017~ |
Associate Editor, Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS) |
2017~ |
Associate Member, MILA (video) |
2016~ |
Associate Member, Computer Science, McGill University |
2016~ |
Co-curator (Cyber Security), World Economic Forum (WEF) |
2015~ |
Canada Research Chair
in Data Mining for Cybersecurity (letters) |
2013~ |
Affiliate
Associate Professor, Information Systems Engineering, Concordia
University |
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 |
Born |
Hong Kong |