Benjamin C. M. Fung
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Benjamin C. M. Fung

Google Scholar ID: W_CFvAYAAAAJ
Canada Research Chair & Professor, School of Information Studies, McGill University
Data miningmachine learningdata privacyauthorship analysismalware analysis
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
8,665
 
H-index
44
 
i10-index
122
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
149
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Contact
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - Over 190 refereed publications, with more than 18,000 citations and h-index 63
  • - Editor-in-Chief, Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society: Advances (SCSADV)
  • - Associate Editor, Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS)
  • - Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)
  • - Supported by NSERC, SSHRC, DRDC, NCC, FRQNT
  • - Top 2% scientists worldwide identified by Stanford University (2021~)
Research Experience
  • - Professor, School of Information Studies, McGill University, Canada
  • - Associate Member, School of Computer Science, McGill University, Canada
  • - Canada Research Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity (2015-2025)
  • - Principal Investigator, McGill Data Mining and Security Lab (DMaS)
  • - Affiliate Faculty, McGill Digital Humanities Initiatives
  • - Associate Academic Member, MILA
  • - Worked at SAP Business Objects for four years
Education
  • - Ph.D., M.Sc., B.Sc., Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada
  • - P.Eng., Software Engineering, Professional Engineers Ontario, Canada
Background
  • - Research interests: Data mining, Artificial intelligence, Data privacy, Machine learning, Cybersecurity
  • - Applications: Malware and software analysis, Smart cities and transportation, Crime investigation, Foreign interference, Health informatics, Authorship analysis
Miscellany
  • - Researcher Council Member, Digital Research Alliance of Canada
  • - Member, Computational and Data Systems Institute (CDSI), McGill University
  • - Affiliate Professor, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE), Concordia University
  • - Associate Member, Center on Multidimensional Conflicts, Chaire Raoul-Dandurand en études stratégiques et diplomatiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)