2026年3月16日（星期一）15:30通訊所演講訊息如下，歡迎踴躍參加!!

Title: Machine Learning for Cybersecurity and Privacy

Speaker: Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung (School of Information Studies, McGill University, Canada)

Date & Time: 2026/03/16 (Monday) 15:30 ~ 17:30

Location: 清華大學台達館211室 (R211, Delta Building, NTHU)

ABSTRACT

Three research directions in cybersecurity and privacy will be presented in this session. The first research direction is on privacy-preserving data publishing. The objective is to share large volumes of data for machine learning without compromising the privacy of individuals. We will discuss multiple data sharing scenarios in privacy-preserving data publishing. The second research direction is on authorship analysis. The objective is to identify the author's identity or infer the author's characteristics based on his/her writing styles. The third problem is on malware analysis. Assembly code analysis is one of the critical processes for mitigating the exponentially increasing threats from malicious software. However, it is a manually intensive and time-consuming process even for experienced reverse engineers. An effective and efficient assembly code clone search engine can greatly reduce the effort of this process. At the end of presentation, Prof. Fung will briefly describe his current research projects and potential research opportunities, with scholarship, at McGill University in Canada.

BIOGRAPHY

Benjamin Fung is a Full Professor in the School of Information Studies (SIS) and an Associate Member in the School of Computer Science (SOCS) at McGill University. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society: Advances (SCSADV) and an Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD). He received a Ph.D. degree in computing science from Simon Fraser University. Collaborating closely with the national defense, transportation, and healthcare sectors, he has over 190 refereed publications, with more than 18,000 citations and h-index 64, that span the research areas of data mining, machine learning, privacy protection, cybersecurity, and building engineering. His data mining works in crime investigation and authorship analysis have been reported by the media worldwide. Benjamin is a licensed professional engineer in software engineering registered in Ontario. See his research website http://dmas.lab.mcgill.ca/fung for more information.

Host: Prof. Wei-Ho Chung