Benjamin C. M. Fung

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Prof. Benjamin Fung is a Full Professor of Information Studies (SIS) and an Associate Member of Computer Science (SoCS) at McGill University. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society: Advances (SCSADV) and Associate Editor for Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS) and ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD).  He was a Canada Research Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity from 2015 to 2025. He received a Ph.D. degree in computing science from Simon Fraser University in 2007. Dr. Fung has over 150 refereed publications, with h-index 64, that span the prestigious research forums 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. His 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 professional engineer in software engineering registered in Ontario, and is primarily affiliated with the Data Mining and Security Lab (DMaS) at McGill SIS. He is also an Associate Member of MILA. He previously worked at SAP Business Objects for four years.