Philip Fong

Philip Fong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary. He previously held a Tier-2 Canada Research Chair in Software Security (2009–2019) and served as faculty at the University of Regina (2003–2008). He holds a B.Math and M.Math from the University of Waterloo and a Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University.

His research focuses on access control mechanisms, IoT security, privacy in social computing systems, and language-based security. He has contributed to frameworks addressing policy negotiation, inference attack mitigation, and privacy-preserving systems. Notable work includes developing the Papilio tool for Android permission visualization and formalizing purpose-based privacy policies.

His scientific achievements include the Tier-2 Canada Research Chair. His research spans interdisciplinary areas such as geo-social computing, federated systems protection, and hybrid logic-based policy enforcement. He has also explored security in open-source medical records systems and design patterns for multi-stakeholder platforms.

Collaborations involve secure collaboration models and policy analysis techniques. His work bridges theoretical foundations (e.g., policy satisfiability) with practical tools (e.g., visualization systems for access control).