Benjamin Fung
Associate Editor, ACM Transactions Knowledge Discovery From Data (TKDD)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolBenjamin Fung is a Canada Research Chair and Full Professor at McGill University specializing in data mining, privacy, and cybersecurity, with a career that bridges academia, industry, and global policy. He has authored 130+ peer-reviewed papers with over 10,000 citations and leads the McGill Data Mining and Security Lab while serving editorial roles at top venues including ACM TKDD, IEEE TKDE, and Elsevier SCS. His work on crime investigation and authorship analysis has attracted international media attention, and he has advised world leaders on cybersecurity as a World Economic Forum co-curator. A licensed software professional who spent formative years at SAP Business Objects, he blends rigorous theoretical research with real-world systems and policy impact.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Matthew McNair Secondary SchoolHugh McRoberts Secondary SchoolPh.D., Computing Science, Ph.D., Computing Science at Simon Fraser University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (4)
machine-learning10
reverse-engineering10
data-mining10
assembly10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
McGill-DMaS/Privacy-DiffGen
Jan 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 17 pushes in 8 months
McGill-DMaS/Privacy-DiffMulti
Jan 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:39 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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