Short biography:

Benjamin Fung is a Canada Research Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity, a Full Professor in the School of Information Studies (SIS), and an Associate Member in the School of Computer Science (SOCS) at McGill University. 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 150 refereed publications, with more than 14,000 citations and h-index 56, 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), 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), and an Associate Academic Member of MILA, an Affiliate Faculty of McGill Digital Humanities Initiatives. 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) [impact factor: 9.235]
2017~	Associate Editor, Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS) [impact factor: 10.696]
2017~	Associate Member, MILA (video)
2016~	Associate Member, Computer Science, McGill University
2015~	Canada Research Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity (letters)
2021	Top 2% scientists worldwide identified by Stanford University
2021~2023	Graduate Program Director (GPD) - Master's & GC, SIS, McGill University
2013~2022	Affiliate Associate Professor, Information Systems Engineering, 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
1992~1994	Matthew McNair Senior Secondary School, Richmond, BC, Canada
1990~1992	Hugh McRoberts Junior Secondary School, Richmond, BC, Canada
Born	Free Hong Kong