Canada Research Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity
Benjamin C. M. Fung is Canada Research Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity, professor at McGill University's School of Information Studies (SIS), and editor-in-chief of the Elsevier journal, Sustainable Cities and Society: Advances (SCSADV). Working closely with the national defence, law enforcement, transportation, and health sectors, he has published over 200 refereed papers covering the fields of data mining, machine learning, privacy, and cybersecurity.
The Foreign Interference Commission identified disinformation as the single greatest threat to Canadian democracy, yet Ottawa’s signature legislation barely touches it.
