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  1. Responsible AI Day

    Article • August 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Faezeh Ensan, Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  2. AugmenToxic: Leveraging Reinforcement Learning to Optimize LLM Instruction Fine-Tuning for Data Augmentation to Enhance Toxicity Detection

    Article • ACM Transactions on the Web, October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung, Arezo Bodaghi

  3. Dynamic Neural Control Flow Execution: an Agent-Based Deep Equilibrium Approach for Binary Vulnerability Detection

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  4. A Simple Guide to Understanding AI in Finding Malware

    Article • ACM Computing Surveys, July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung, Mohd Saqib

  5. Adaptive Integration of Categorical and Multi-relational Ontologies with EHR Data for Medical Concept Embedding

    Article • ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, September 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  6. VulANalyzeR: Explainable Binary Vulnerability Detection with Multi-Task Learning and Attentional Graph Convolution

    Article • ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, March 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  7. Differentially Private Release of Heterogeneous Network for Managing Healthcare Data

    Article • ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, February 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal

  8. Detecting High-Engaging Breaking News Rumors in Social Media

    Article • ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, March 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Shih-Chia Huang, Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  9. Young Chinese Consumers’ Choice between Product-Related and Sustainable Cues—The Effects of Gender Differences and Consumer Innovativeness

    Article • Sustainability, May 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Osmud Rahman, Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  10. Detecting breaking news rumors of emerging topics in social media

    Article • Information Processing & Management, March 2020, Elsevier

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  11. Systematic approach to provide building occupants with feedback to reduce energy consumption

    Article • Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Energy, March 2020, Elsevier

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  12. A cross-national study of young female consumer behaviour, innovativeness and apparel evaluation: China and India

    Article • Journal of the Textile Institute, June 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Osmud Rahman, Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  13. Arabic Authorship Attribution

    Article • ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, March 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal

  14. Development of a ranking procedure for energy performance evaluation of buildings based on occupant behavior

    Article • Energy and Buildings, January 2019, Elsevier

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  15. Learning Stylometric Representations for Authorship Analysis

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, January 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal

  16. A Hybrid Framework for Sentiment Analysis Using Genetic Algorithm Based Feature Reduction

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal

  17. Incremental Mining of High Utility Patterns in One Phase by Absence and Legacy-Based Pruning

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  18. Towards a Knowledge-Based Recommender System for Linking Electronic Patient Records With Continuing Medical Education Information at the Point of Care

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  19. Wordnet-Based Criminal Networks Mining for Cybercrime Investigation

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal

  20. SafePath: Differentially-private publishing of passenger trajectories in transportation systems

    Article • Computer Networks, October 2018, Elsevier

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal

  21. Development of building energy saving advisory: A data mining approach

    Article • Energy and Buildings, August 2018, Elsevier

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  22. Opportunistic mining of top-n high utility patterns

    Article • Information Sciences, May 2018, Elsevier

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal

  23. Differentially private multidimensional data publishing

    Article • Knowledge and Information Systems, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal

  24. Improving interpretations of topic modeling in microblogs

    Article • Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, November 2017, Wiley

    Professor Osmud Rahman, Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  25. Kam1n0

    Article • August 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  26. Scalable code clone search for malware analysis

    Article • Digital Investigation, December 2015, Elsevier

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  27. Privacy-preserving trajectory stream publishing

    Article • Data & Knowledge Engineering, November 2014, Elsevier

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  28. Quantifying the costs and benefits of privacy-preserving health data publishing

    Article • Journal of Biomedical Informatics, August 2014, Elsevier

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  29. BinClone: Detecting Code Clones in Malware

    Article • June 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  30. D-Mash: A Framework for Privacy-Preserving Data-as-a-Service Mashups

    Article • June 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  31. Privacy-Preserving Medical Reports Publishing for Cluster Analysis

    Article • March 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal

  32. Anonymizing trajectory data for passenger flow analysis

    Article • Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies, February 2014, Elsevier

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  33. Secure Two-Party Differentially Private Data Release for Vertically Partitioned Data

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, January 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  34. Using data mining to analyse fashion consumers’ preferences from a cross-national perspective

    Article • International Journal of Fashion Design Technology and Education, December 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Osmud Rahman, Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  35. Preface to the Fourth IEEE Workshop on Privacy Aspects of Data Mining

    Article • December 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  36. Correlated network data publication via differential privacy

    Article • The VLDB Journal, November 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  37. Subject-based semantic document clustering for digital forensic investigations

    Article • Data & Knowledge Engineering, July 2013, Elsevier

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  38. A unified data mining solution for authorship analysis in anonymous textual communications

    Article • Information Sciences, May 2013, Elsevier

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal

  39. Privacy-preserving trajectory data publishing by local suppression

    Article • Information Sciences, May 2013, Elsevier

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  40. Product customization of tablet computers based on the information of online reviews by customers

    Article • Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, April 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  41. Extracting knowledge from building-related data — A data mining framework

    Article • Building Simulation, March 2013, Tsinghua University Press

    Professor Fariborz Haghighat, Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  42. Analyzing topics and authors in chat logs for crime investigation

    Article • Knowledge and Information Systems, March 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  43. Modeling, extraction, and transformation of semantics in computer aided engineering systems

    Article • Advanced Engineering Informatics, January 2013, Elsevier

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung, Dr. Yong Zeng

  44. Preserving privacy and frequent sharing patterns for social network data publishing

    Article • January 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  45. Privacy-preserving heterogeneous health data sharing

    Article • Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, December 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  46. Direct Discovery of High Utility Itemsets without Candidate Generation

    Article • December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  47. Mining Criminal Networks from Chat Log

    Article • December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal

  48. A novel methodology for knowledge discovery through mining associations between building operational data

    Article • Energy and Buildings, April 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Fariborz Haghighat, Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  49. Mining criminal networks from unstructured text documents

    Article • Digital Investigation, February 2012, Elsevier

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  50. Differentially private transit data publication

    Article • January 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  51. Frequent grams based embedding for privacy preserving record linkage

    Article • January 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  52. Secure Distributed Framework for Achieving ε-Differential Privacy

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  53. Service-Oriented Architecture for High-Dimensional Private Data Mashup

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, January 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  54. Service-oriented architecture for sharing private spatial-temporal data

    Article • December 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  55. A methodology for identifying and improving occupant behavior in residential buildings

    Article • Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Energy, November 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Fariborz Haghighat, Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  56. A systematic procedure to study the influence of occupant behavior on building energy consumption

    Article • Energy and Buildings, June 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Fariborz Haghighat, Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  57. Differentially private data release for data mining

    Article • January 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  58. Towards discovering criminal communities from textual data

    Article • January 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  59. Verification of data pattern for interactive privacy preservation model

    Article • January 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  60. Anonymity meets game theory: secure data integration with malicious participants

    Article • The VLDB Journal, December 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  61. A decision tree method for building energy demand modeling

    Article • Energy and Buildings, October 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Fariborz Haghighat, Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  62. Centralized and Distributed Anonymization for High-Dimensional Healthcare Data

    Article • ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, October 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  63. Mining writeprints from anonymous e-mails for forensic investigation

    Article • Digital Investigation, October 2010, Elsevier

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal

  64. Privacy-preserving data publishing

    Article • ACM Computing Surveys, June 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  65. Anonymizing data with quasi-sensitive attribute values

    Article • January 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  66. e-mail authorship verification for forensic investigation

    Article • January 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal

  67. Using RFID tags to improve pilgrimage management

    Article • December 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  68. Service-Oriented Architecture for Privacy-Preserving Data Mashup

    Article • July 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  69. Preserving Privacy for Location-Based Services with Continuous Queries

    Article • June 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  70. Privacy-preserving data publishing for cluster analysis

    Article • Data & Knowledge Engineering, June 2009, Elsevier

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  71. Preserving RFID data privacy

    Article • April 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  72. Anonymizing healthcare data

    Article • January 2009, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  73. Anonymizing location-based RFID data

    Article • January 2009, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  74. Privacy protection for RFID data

    Article • January 2009, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  75. Privacy-preserving data mashup

    Article • January 2009, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  76. Walking in the crowd

    Article • January 2009, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  77. Publishing Sensitive Transactions for Itemset Utility

    Article • December 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  78. An Efficient Hybrid Hierarchical Document Clustering Method

    Article • October 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  79. A novel approach of mining write-prints for authorship attribution in e-mail forensics

    Article • Digital Investigation, September 2008, Elsevier

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal

  80. A framework for privacy-preserving cluster analysis

    Article • June 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  81. Anonymity for continuous data publishing

    Article • January 2008, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  82. Anonymizing Classification Data for Privacy Preservation

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, May 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  83. Handicapping attacker's confidence: an alternative to k-anonymization

    Article • Knowledge and Information Systems, October 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  84. Template-Based Privacy Preservation in Classification Problems

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung

  85. Top-Down Specialization for Information and Privacy Preservation

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Benjamin C. M. Fung