Portrait de Benjamin Fung

Benjamin Fung

Membre académique associé
Professeur agrégé, McGill University, École des sciences de l'information
McGill University University
Sujets de recherche
Apprentissage automatique appliqué
Apprentissage de représentations
Apprentissage profond
Cybersécurité
Désinformation
Exploration des données
IA pour l'ingénierie logicielle
Recherche d'information
Vie privée
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Biographie

Benjamin Fung est titulaire d'une chaire de recherche du Canada en exploration de données pour la cybersécurité, professeur agrégé à l’École des sciences de l’information et membre agrégé de l’École d’informatique de l'Université McGill, rédacteur adjoint de IEEE Transactions of Knowledge and Data Engineering et rédacteur adjoint de Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS). Il a obtenu un doctorat en informatique de l'Université Simon Fraser en 2007. Il a à son actif plus de 150 publications revues par un comité de lecture, et plus de 14 000 citations (h-index 57) qui couvrent les domaines de l'exploration de données, de l'apprentissage automatique, de la protection de la vie privée, de la cybersécurité et du génie du bâtiment. Ses travaux d'exploration de données dans les enquêtes criminelles et l'analyse de la paternité d’une œuvre ont été recensés par les médias du monde entier.

Publications

AsmDocGen: Generating Functional Natural Language Descriptions for Assembly Code
Jesia Yuki
Mohammadhossein Amouei
Benjamin Fung
Philippe Charland
Andrew Walenstein
2024-01-01
International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (publié)
doi.org
BETAC: Bidirectional Encoder Transformer for Assembly Code Function Name Recovery
Guillaume Breyton
Mohd Saqib
Benjamin Fung
Philippe Charland
Recovering function names from stripped binaries is a crucial and time-consuming task for software reverse engineering’ particularly in en… (voir plus)hancing network reliability, resilience, and security. This paper tackles the challenge of recovering function names in stripped binaries, a fundamental step in reverse engineering. The absence of syntactic information and the possibility of different code producing identical behavior complicate this task. To overcome these challenges, we introduce a novel model, the Bidirectional Encoder Transformer for Assembly Code (BETAC), leveraging a transformer-based architecture known for effectively processing sequential data. BETAC utilizes self-attention mechanisms and feed-forward networks to discern complex relationships within assembly code for precise function name prediction. We evaluated BETAC against various existing encoder and decoder models in diverse binary datasets, including benign and malicious codes in multiple formats. Our model demonstrated superior performance over previous techniques in certain metrics and showed resilience against code obfuscation.
2024-01-01
DRCN (publié)
doi.org
Dynamic Neural Control Flow Execution: An Agent-Based Deep Equilibrium Approach for Binary Vulnerability Detection
Litao Li
Steven H. H. Ding
Andrew Walenstein
Philippe Charland
Benjamin Fung
2024-01-01
CIKM (publié)
doi.org
arxiv.org
Multidomain Object Detection Framework Using Feature Domain Knowledge Distillation.
Da-Wei Jaw
Shih-Chia Huang
Zhihui Lu
Benjamin Fung
Sy-Yen Kuo
Object detection techniques have been widely studied, utilized in various works, and have exhibited robust performance on images with suffic… (voir plus)ient luminance. However, these approaches typically struggle to extract valuable features from low-luminance images, which often exhibit blurriness and dim appearence, leading to detection failures. To overcome this issue, we introduce an innovative unsupervised feature domain knowledge distillation (KD) framework. The proposed framework enhances the generalization capability of neural networks across both low-and high-luminance domains without incurring additional computational costs during testing. This improvement is made possible through the integration of generative adversarial networks and our proposed unsupervised KD process. Furthermore, we introduce a region-based multiscale discriminator designed to discern feature domain discrepancies at the object level rather than from the global context. This bolsters the joint learning process of object detection and feature domain distillation tasks. Both qualitative and quantitative assessments shown that the proposed method, empowered by the region-based multiscale discriminator and the unsupervised feature domain distillation process, can effectively extract beneficial features from low-luminance images, outperforming other state-of-the-art approaches in both low-and sufficient-luminance domains.
2024-01-01
IEEE Trans. Cybern. (publié)
doi.org
Survey on Explainable AI: Techniques, challenges and open issues
Adel Abusitta
Miles Q. Li
Benjamin Fung
2024-01-01
Expert Syst. Appl. (publié)
doi.org
Towards a unified XAI-based framework for digital forensic investigations
Zainab Khalid
Farkhund Iqbal
Benjamin Fung
2024-01-01
Digit. Investig. (publié)
doi.org
VulEXplaineR: XAI for Vulnerability Detection on Assembly Code
Samaneh Mahdavifar
Mohd Saqib
Benjamin Fung
Philippe Charland
Andrew Walenstein
2024-01-01
ECML/PKDD (publié)
doi.org
Technological Solutions to Online Toxicity: Potential and Pitfalls
Arezo Bodaghi
Benjamin Fung
Ketra A. Schmitt
Social media platforms present a perplexing duality, acting at once as sites to build community and a sense of belonging, while also giving … (voir plus)rise to misinformation, facilitating and intensifying disinformation campaigns and perpetuating existing patterns of discrimination from the physical world. The first-step platforms take in mitigating the harmful side of social media involves identifying and managing toxic content. Users produce an enormous volume of posts which must be evaluated very quickly. This is an application context that requires machine-learning (ML) tools, but as we detail in this article, ML approaches rely on human annotators, analysts, and moderators. Our review of existing methods and potential improvements indicates that neither humans nor ML can be removed from this process in the near future. However, we see room for improvement in the working conditions of these human workers.
2023-12-01
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine (publié)
doi.org
Adaptive Integration of Categorical and Multi-relational Ontologies with EHR Data for Medical Concept Embedding
Chin Wang Cheong
Kejing Yin
William K. Cheung
Benjamin Fung
Jonathan Poon
2023-11-14
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (publié)
doi.org
A Systematic Literature Review of Fashion, Sustainability, and Consumption Using a Mixed Methods Approach
Osmud Rahman
Dingtao Hu
Benjamin Fung
With the growing global awareness of the environmental impact of clothing consumption, there has been a notable surge in the publication of … (voir plus)journal articles dedicated to “fashion sustainability” in the past decade, specifically from 2010 to 2020. However, despite this wealth of research, many studies remain disconnected and fragmented due to varying research objectives, focuses, and approaches. Conducting a systematic literature review with a mixed methods research approach can help identify key research themes, trends, and developmental patterns, while also shedding light on the complexity of fashion, sustainability, and consumption. To enhance the literature review and analytical process, the current systematic literature review employed text mining techniques and bibliometric visualization tools, including RAKE, VOSviewer, and CitNetExplorer. The findings revealed an increase in the number of publications focusing on “fashion and sustainability” between 2010 and 2021. Most studies were predominantly conducted in the United States, with a specific focus on female consumers. Moreover, a greater emphasis was placed on non-sustainable cues rather than the sustainable cues. Additionally, a higher number of case studies was undertaken to investigate three fast-fashion companies. To enhance our knowledge and understanding of this subject, this article highlights several valuable contributions and provides recommendations for future research.
2023-08-10
Sustainability (publié)
doi.org
FASHION AND SUSTAINABILITY: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW
Osmud Rahman
Dingtao Hu
Benjamin Fung
2023-07-30
Global Fashion Management Conference (publié)
doi.org
Pluvio: Assembly Clone Search for Out-of-domain Architectures and Libraries through Transfer Learning and Conditional Variational Information Bottleneck
Zhiwei Fu
Steven H. H. Ding
Furkan Alaca
Benjamin Fung
Philippe Charland
The practice of code reuse is crucial in software development for a faster and more efficient development lifecycle. In reality, however, co… (voir plus)de reuse practices lack proper control, resulting in issues such as vulnerability propagation and intellectual property infringements. Assembly clone search, a critical shift-right defence mechanism, has been effective in identifying vulnerable code resulting from reuse in released executables. Recent studies on assembly clone search demonstrate a trend towards using machine learning-based methods to match assembly code variants produced by different toolchains. However, these methods are limited to what they learn from a small number of toolchain variants used in training, rendering them inapplicable to unseen architectures and their corresponding compilation toolchain variants. This paper presents the first study on the problem of assembly clone search with unseen architectures and libraries. We propose incorporating human common knowledge through large-scale pre-trained natural language models, in the form of transfer learning, into current learning-based approaches for assembly clone search. Transfer learning can aid in addressing the limitations of the existing approaches, as it can bring in broader knowledge from human experts in assembly code. We further address the sequence limit issue by proposing a reinforcement learning agent to remove unnecessary and redundant tokens. Coupled with a new Variational Information Bottleneck learning strategy, the proposed system minimizes the reliance on potential indicators of architectures and optimization settings, for a better generalization of unseen architectures. We simulate the unseen architecture clone search scenarios and the experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed approach against the state-of-the-art solutions.
2023-07-20
ArXiv (prépublication)
doi.org
arxiv.org