Dr. Benjamin Fung is an Associate Professor in the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE) at Concordia University in Montreal, and a research scientist of the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance Canada (NCFTA Canada). He received a Ph.D. degree in computing science from Simon Fraser University, joined Concordia as an Assistant Professor in 2007, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011. He has over 60 refereed publications that span across the prestigious research forums of data mining, privacy protection, cyber forensics, web services, and building engineering.  His data mining work in authorship analysis has been widely reported by media worldwide. His research has been supported in part by the Discovery Grants and Strategic Project Grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC), and Le Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies (FQRNT), and NCFTA Canada. Before pursuing his academic career, he worked at SAP Business Objects as a system software developer for four years. Dr. Fung is a licensed professional engineer in software engineering, and is currently affiliated with the Computer Security Lab in CIISE.

Interviewed by International Media (topic: authorship analysis) - March 2011

Interviewed by Fairchild TV (topic: data mining & authorship analysis) - May 2011

Audio Podcast: Beyond the Headlines (topic: security & authorship analysis) - 2012

Interviewed by Concordia Journal (topic: authorship analysis) - March 2011