Benjamin Fung
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
China
Biography
Dr. Benjamin Fung is a Canada Research Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity, an Associate Professor of Information Studies (SIS), an Associate Member of Computer Science (SOCS) at McGill University, and a Co-curator of Cybersecurity in the World Economic Forum (WEF). He received a Ph.D. degree in computing science from Simon Fraser University in 2007. Dr. Fung has over 100 refereed publications that span the research areas of data mining, privacy protection, cyber forensics, services computing, and building engineering with over 5600 citations. His data mining works in crime investigation and authorship analysis have been reported by media worldwide, including, BBC, CBC, New York Times, Toronto Star, etc. Dr. Fung is a licensed professional engineer in software engineering.
Research Interest
Data mining and databases, Data security and privacy, Authorship analysis
