Biography

Farhana Zulkernine is a Professor and the Director of the Bigdata Analytics and Management Laboratory (BAM Lab) at the School of Computing, Queen's University. She holds a Ph.D. degree from Queen's University and is a member of Professional Engineers of Ontario. She has more than 15 years of international work experience in three continents in software design, analysis and research and has collaborated with Pfizer, Roche, CA Technologies, IBM, SAP and Fondazione Bruno Kessler in multiple countries across the globe. Her research interests include Artificial Intelligence (AI), service computing, big data analytics and management, and cognitive computing. She has taught a wide number of courses in database management systems, cognitive science and machine learning and organized multiple local and international conferences on AI and Digital Health. Her research has been funded by IBM, CFI, MITACS, NSERC Discovery and CREATE, OCE VIP, CUTRIC, CIMVHR, SOSCIP and Queen's. She has published in many reputed journals and international conferences and served on a variety of conference program and grant committees as an expert in big data and machine learning.