Benjamin C. M. Fung
Canada Research Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity;
Professor, School of Information Studies;
Coordinator, Online Graduate Certificate in Cybersecurity;
Associate Member, School of Computer Science
- PhD (Computing Science), Simon Fraser University, Canada
- MSc (Computing Science), Simon Fraser University, Canada
- BSc (Computing Science), Simon Fraser University, Canada
Designations: P.Eng. (Software Engineering), Professional Engineers Ontario; ACM Senior Member; IEEE Senior Member
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Prof. Benjamin Fung is a Canada Research Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity,聽a聽Full Professor of Information Studies (SIS) at 91社区, and an Associate Member of Computer Science () at 91社区.聽He also serves as Associate Editors for IEEE Transactions of Knowledge and Data Engineering () and Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society ().聽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 58, 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 . His research has been supported in part by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (), Defence Research and Development Canada (), and Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec - Nature et technologies (). He is a professional engineer聽in software engineering registered in Ontario, and is primarily affiliated with the Data Mining and Security Lab () at 91社区 SIS. He is also an Associate Member of MILA.聽He previously worked at for four years.
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- Co-curator (Cyber Security), World Economic Forum ()听
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering ()
- Associate Editor, Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society ()
- Senior PC Member,聽ACM SIGKDD, ACM CIKM, PAKDD.
2021-2026 | Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC): Research areas: Software Engineering & Cybersecurity (Principal investigator) |
2020-2025 | Canada Research Chairs (CRC) Program (Tier 2): Defending Canadian cyberspace and freedom of expression (Principal investigator) |
2021-2024 | NSERC Alliance Grants:聽Defending our cyberspace: AI-powered search engine for cyber threat intelligence聽(Principal investigator) |
2018-2023 | NSERC/DND Discovery Grants:聽Deep Learning for Cybersecurity: Assembly Code and Authorship Analytics聽(Principal investigator) |
2018-2023 | Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC): Research areas: Software Engineering & Cybersecurity (Principal investigator) |
2021-2022 | IDEaS: AI-powered Assembly Code Analytics for Discerning Malware Intent (Principal investigator) |
Research applications
- AI for cybersecurity
- Health informatics
- Crime investigation
- Authorship analytics
- Malware analysis
- Foreign interference
- Smart cities and transportation