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Benjamin C. M. Fung

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Professeur titulaire, McGill University

M. Benjamin Fung est titulaire d’une chaire de recherche du Canada en exploration de données pour la cybersécurité, professeur titulaire à la School of Information Studies (SIS), membre agrégé de la School of Computer Science (SOCS) de l’Université McGill, co-curateur de la cybersécurité au Forum économique mondial (WEF), rédacteur adjoint du IEEE Transactions of Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) et rédacteur adjoint du Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS). Il a obtenu un doctorat en informatique de l’Université Simon Fraser en 2007. M. Fung a plus de 130 publications arbitrées qui couvrent les domaines de recherche 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 des auteurs ont été rapportés par les médias du monde entier.

Les recherches de M. Fung ont été appuyées en partie par le Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada (CRSNG), le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines (CRSH), Recherche et développement pour la défense Canada (RDDC) et le Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (FRQNT). Il est ingénieur professionnel agréé* en génie logiciel et est principalement affilié au Data Mining and Security Lab (DMaS) de McGill SIS. Il est également professeur agrégé affilié à l’Institut Concordia d’ingénierie des systèmes d’information (CIISE) de l’Université Concordia, membre associé de la MILA et membre du conseil de la National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance Canada (NCFTA Canada). Auparavant, il a travaillé chez SAP Business Objects pendant quatre ans.

Publications

2022-01

Trade-off between accuracy and fairness of data-driven building and indoor environment models: A comparative study of pre-processing methods
Ying Sun, Fariborz Haghighat and Benjamin C.M. Fung
Energy
(2022-01-15)
www.sciencedirect.com
Distinguishing between fake news and satire with transformers
Jwen Fai Low, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal and Shih-Chia Huang
Expert Systems With Applications
(2022-01-01)
www.sciencedirect.com

2021-11

On the Effectiveness of Interpretable Feedforward Neural Network.
Miles Q. Li, Benjamin C. M. Fung and Adel Abusitta
arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.02303
(2021-11-03)
dblp.uni-trier.dePDF
The Topic Confusion Task: A Novel Evaluation Scenario for Authorship Attribution
EMNLP 2021
(2021-11-01)
aclanthology.org

2021-10

Season-Based Occupancy Prediction in Residential Buildings Using Machine Learning Models
Bowen Yang, Fariborz Haghighat, Benjamin C.M. Fung and Karthik Panchabikesan
e-Prime
(2021-10-01)
api.elsevier.com

2021-09

I-MAD: Interpretable malware detector using Galaxy Transformer
Miles Q. Li, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Philippe Charland and Steven H.H. Ding

2021-08

Toward Tweet-Mining Framework for Extracting Terrorist Attack-Related Information and Reporting
Farkhund Iqbal, Rabia Batool, Benjamin C. M. Fung, Saiqa Aleem, Ahmed Abbasi and Abdul Rehman Javed
IEEE Access
(2021-08-03)
ieeexplore.ieee.orgPDF
An Advanced Noise Reduction and Edge Enhancement Algorithm.
Shih Chia Huang, Quoc Viet Hoang, Trung Hieu Le, Yan Tsung Peng, Ching Chun Huang, Cheng Zhang, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Kai Han Cheng and Sha Wo Huang
Sensors
(2021-08-02)
europepmc.org

2021-07

VirtualGAN: Reducing Mode Collapse in Generative Adversarial Networks Using Virtual Mapping
Adel Abusitta, Omar Abdel Wahab and Benjamin C. M. Fung
IJCNN 2021
(2021-07-18)
dblp.uni-trier.de

2021-06

A Data Mining Analysis of Cross-Regional Study of Apparel Consumption
Osmud Rahman and Benjamin C. M. Fung
International Conference on Comprehensible Science
(2021-06-19)
link.springer.com
Malware classification and composition analysis: A survey of recent developments
Adel Abusitta, Miles Q. Li and Benjamin C.M. Fung
WISA 2021
(2021-06-01)
www.sciencedirect.com
Enabling Technologies for Energy Cloud
Thar Baker, Zehua Guo, Ali Ismail Awad, Shangguang Wang and Benjamin C.M. Fung
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
(2021-06-01)
www.sciencedirect.com
ER-AE: Differentially Private Text Generation for Authorship Anonymization
Haohan Bo, Steven H. H. Ding, Benjamin C. M. Fung and Farkhund Iqbal

2021-04

The Topic Confusion Task: A Novel Scenario for Authorship Attribution.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.08530
(2021-04-17)
dblp.uni-trier.dePDF
Differentially private data publishing for arbitrarily partitioned data
Rong Wang, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Yan Zhu and Qiang Peng
Information Sciences
(2021-04-01)
www.sciencedirect.com

2021-03

Factors influencing consumer choice: a study of apparel and sustainable cues from Canadian and Indian consumers’ perspectives
Osmud Rahman, Benjamin C. M. Fung and Devender Kharb
International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education
(2021-03-19)
www.tandfonline.com
Image Dehazing in Disproportionate Haze Distributions
Shih-Chia Huang, Da-Wei Jaw, Wenli Li, Zhihui Lu, Sy-Yen Kuo, Benjamin C. M. Fung, Bo-Hao Chen and Thanisa Numnonda
IEEE Access
(2021-03-15)
doi.org

2021-02

Enabling Secure Trustworthiness Assessment and Privacy Protection in Integrating Data for Trading Person-Specific Information
Rashid Hussain Khokhar, Farkhund Iqbal, Benjamin C. M. Fung and Jamal Bentahar
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
(2021-02-01)
doi.org

2021-01

TedPar: Temporally Dependent PARAFAC2 Factorization for Phenotype-based Disease Progression Modeling.
Kejing Yin, William K. Cheung, Benjamin C. M. Fung and Jonathan Poon
SDM 2021
(2021-01-01)
dblp.uni-trier.de
A Novel and Dedicated Machine Learning Model for Malware Classification.
Miles Q. Li, Benjamin C. M. Fung, Philippe Charland and Steven H. H. Ding
ICSOFT 2021
(2021-01-01)
dx.doi.org

2020-12

Detecting High-Engaging Breaking News Rumors in Social Media
Sarah A. Alkhodair, Benjamin C. M. Fung, Steven H. H. Ding, William K. Cheung and Shih-Chia Huang
MIS 2020
(2020-12-30)
dl.acm.org
DUGRA: Dual-Graph Representation Learning for Health Information Networks
Qifan Wang, Benjamin C. M. Fung and Patrick C. K. Hung
BIG DATA 2020
(2020-12-10)
dblp.uni-trier.de

2020-11

Learning Inter-Modal Correspondence and Phenotypes from Multi-Modal Electronic Health Records
Kejing Yin, William K. Cheung, Benjamin C. M. Fung and Jonathan Poon
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
(2020-11-16)
ieeexplore.ieee.org[Also on arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.06301 (2020-11-12)]

2020-10

Embedding for Anomaly Detection on Health Insurance Claims
Jiaqi Lu, Benjamin C. M. Fung and William K. Cheung
DSAA 2020
(2020-10-01)
scholars.hkbu.edu.hk

2020-08

A review of the-state-of-the-art in data-driven approaches for building energy prediction
Ying Sun, Fariborz Haghighat and Benjamin C.M. Fung
Energy and Buildings
(2020-08-15)
www.sciencedirect.com
Heterogeneous data release for cluster analysis with differential privacy
Rong Wang, Benjamin C.M. Fung and Yan Zhu
Knowledge Based Systems
(2020-08-09)
www.sciencedirect.com

2020-06

Deep Learning-based Stress Determinator for Mouse Psychiatric Analysis using Hippocampus Activity.
Donghan Liu, Benjamin C. M. Fung and Tak Pan Wong
arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.06862
(2020-06-11)
ui.adsabs.harvard.eduPDF

2020-05

Young Chinese Consumers’ Choice between Product-Related and Sustainable Cues—The Effects of Gender Differences and Consumer Innovativeness
Osmud Rahman, Benjamin C.M. Fung and Zhimin Chen
Sustainability
(2020-05-07)
e-space.mmu.ac.uk
$${\textsf {SecDM}}$$SecDM: privacy-preserving data outsourcing framework with differential privacy
Gaby G. Dagher, Benjamin C. M. Fung, Noman Mohammed and Jeremy Clark
Knowledge and Information Systems
(2020-05-01)
link.springer.com

2020-03

A cross-national study of young female consumer behaviour, innovativeness and apparel evaluation: China and India
Osmud Rahman, Zhimin Chen, Benjamin C. M. Fung and Devender Kharb
Journal of The Textile Institute
(2020-03-03)
www.tandfonline.com
Systematic approach to provide building occupants with feedback to reduce energy consumption
Milad Ashouri, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Fariborz Haghighat and Hiroshi Yoshino
Energy
(2020-03-01)
www.sciencedirect.com
Detecting breaking news rumors of emerging topics in social media
Sarah A. Alkhodair, Steven H.H. Ding, Benjamin C.M. Fung and Junqiang Liu
Information Processing and Management
(2020-03-01)
www.sciencedirect.com

2020-01

Anonymizing Social Networks
Benjamin C.M. Fung, Ke Wang, Ada Wai-Chee Fu and Philip S. Yu
Introduction to Privacy-Preserving Data Publishing
(2020-01-01)
www.mendeley.com
Authorship Analysis Approaches
Farkhund Iqbal, Mourad Debbabi and Benjamin C. M. Fung
(venue unknown)
(2020-01-01)
link.springer.com
Cybersecurity And Cybercrime Investigation
Farkhund Iqbal, Mourad Debbabi and Benjamin C. M. Fung
(venue unknown)
(2020-01-01)
link.springer.com
Authorship Attribution With Few Training Samples
Farkhund Iqbal, Mourad Debbabi and Benjamin C. M. Fung
(venue unknown)
(2020-01-01)
link.springer.com
Writeprint Mining For Authorship Attribution
Farkhund Iqbal, Mourad Debbabi and Benjamin C. M. Fung
(venue unknown)
(2020-01-01)
link.springer.com
Artificial Intelligence And Digital Forensics
Farkhund Iqbal, Mourad Debbabi and Benjamin C. M. Fung
(venue unknown)
(2020-01-01)
link.springer.com
Machine Learning for Authorship Attribution and Cyber Forensics
Farkhund Iqbal, Mourad Debbabi and Benjamin C. M. Fung
(venue unknown)
(2020-01-01)
link.springer.com
Criminal Information Mining
Farkhund Iqbal, Mourad Debbabi and Benjamin C. M. Fung
(venue unknown)
(2020-01-01)
link.springer.com
Messaging Forensics In Perspective
Farkhund Iqbal, Mourad Debbabi and Benjamin C. M. Fung
(venue unknown)
(2020-01-01)
link.springer.com
Analyzing Network Level Information
Farkhund Iqbal, Mourad Debbabi and Benjamin C. M. Fung
(venue unknown)
(2020-01-01)
link.springer.com

2019-09

I-MAD: A Novel Interpretable Malware Detector Using Hierarchical Transformer.
Miles Q. Li, Benjamin C. M. Fung, Philippe Charland and Steven H. H. Ding
arXiv e-prints
(2019-09-15)
ui.adsabs.harvard.eduPDF

2019-08

Medical concept embedding with multiple ontological representations
Lihong Song, Chin Wang Cheong, Kejing Yin, William K. Cheung, Benjamin C. M. Fung and Jonathan Poon
IJCAI 2019
(2019-08-10)
scholars.hkbu.edu.hk

2019-07

Learning phenotypes and dynamic patient representations via RNN regularized collective non-negative tensor factorization
Kejing Yin, Dong Qian, William K. Cheung, Benjamin C. M. Fung and Jonathan Poon
AAAI 2019
(2019-07-17)
ojs.aaai.orgPDF

2019-06

A Cross-National Study of Consumer Behaviour, Innovativeness and Apparel
Osmud Rahman, Zhimin Chen, Benjamin C.M. Fung and Devender Devender Kharb
(venue unknown)
(2019-06-22)
e-space.mmu.ac.uk

2019-05

Incremental Mining of High Utility Patterns in One Phase by Absence and Legacy-Based Pruning
Junqiang Liu, Xinyi Ju, Xingxing Zhang, Benjamin C. M. Fung, Xiangcai Yang and Changhong Yu
IEEE Access
(2019-05-28)
doi.org
Asm2Vec: Boosting Static Representation Robustness for Binary Clone Search against Code Obfuscation and Compiler Optimization
Steven H. H. Ding, Benjamin C. M. Fung and Philippe Charland
S&P 2019
(2019-05-19)
www.computer.org

2019-01

Towards a Knowledge-Based Recommender System for Linking Electronic Patient Records With Continuing Medical Education Information at the Point of Care
Manuel Gil, Reem El Sherif, Manon Pluye, Benjamin C. M. Fung, Roland Grad and Pierre Pluye
IEEE Access
(2019-01-23)
doi.org
A Hybrid Framework for Sentiment Analysis Using Genetic Algorithm Based Feature Reduction
Farkhund Iqbal, Jahanzeb Maqbool Hashmi, Benjamin C. M. Fung, Rabia Batool, Asad Masood Khattak, Saiqa Aleem and Patrick C. K. Hung
IEEE Access
(2019-01-21)
ieeexplore.ieee.orgPDF
Development of a ranking procedure for energy performance evaluation of buildings based on occupant behavior
Milad Ashouri, Fariborz Haghighat, Benjamin C.M. Fung and Hiroshi Yoshino
Energy and Buildings
(2019-01-15)
www.sciencedirect.com
Wordnet-Based Criminal Networks Mining for Cybercrime Investigation
Farkhund Iqbal, Benjamin C. M. Fung, Mourad Debbabi, Rabia Batool and Andrew Marrington
IEEE Access
(2019-01-09)
doi.org
Learning Stylometric Representations for Authorship Analysis
Steven H. H. Ding, Benjamin C. M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal and William K. Cheung
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
(2019-01-01)
europepmc.org

2018-11

Arabic Authorship Attribution: An Extensive Study on Twitter Posts
Malik H. Altakrori, Farkhund Iqbal, Benjamin C. M. Fung, Steven H. H. Ding and Abdallah Tubaishat
ALRLIP 2018
(2018-11-12)
dl.acm.org

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