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Dr. Benjamin Fung is a Canada Research Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity, a Full Professor of the School of Information Studies (SIS) at McGill University, and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Data and Engineering (TKDE) and Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS). He received a Ph.D. in computing science from Simon Fraser University in 2007. Collaborating closely with the national defence, law enforcement, transportation, and healthcare sectors, he has published over 160 refereed articles that span across the research forums of data mining, machine learning, privacy protection, and cybersecurity with over 13,000 citations. A Stanford University report identified him as among the top 2% of scientists worldwide. Media, including New York Times, BBC, CBC, etc., have reported his data mining works in crime investigation and authorship analysis. Dr. Fung is an Associate Member of MILA and a licensed professional engineer in software engineering registered in Ontario. See his research website http://dmas.lab.mcgill.ca/fung for more information.
