637 Goodwin Hall (Map) School of Computing, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L
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farhana@cs.queensu.ca | Tel: (613) 533-6426 | Fax: (613) 533-6513
Farhana Zulkernine is an Associate Professor and the Coordinator of the Cognitive Science program at the School of Computing at Queen's University. She holds a Ph.D. degree from the School of Computing at 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. As a researcher she has worked with CA Technologies, IBM Canada, SAP Germany and Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Italy. Her research interests include service and cloud computing, big data analytics and management, and cognitive computing. She has ongoing research collaborations with IBM Canada, Gnowit, Calian, Kings Distributed Systems, the Centre for Advanced Computing (CAC), Compute Canada, Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Services Network (CPCSSN), and Queen's School of Medicine, Law, and Business. She has taught a wide number of courses in database management systems, cognitive science and machine learning. Her research has been funded by IBM, CFI, MITACS, NSERC
CRD, 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.
COGS 400/CISC/CMPE 452: Neural and Genetic Cognitive Models
CISC 874: Neural and Genetic Computing
CISC 432/832: Advanced Database Management Systems
Awards:
Post-doctoral Fellowship award, IBM Canada Research and Development Center (CRDC) and Southern Ontario Smart Computing Innovation Platform (SOSCIP), 2012.
NSERC Post Doctoral Fellowship award (declined to accept the IBM/SOSCIP award), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research, 2012.
NSERC Industrial Research and Discovery Fellowship (IRDF) award, pre-approved, NSERC, 2012.
MITACS Elevate Industrial Postdoctoral Fellowship award, MITACS and CA Technologies, 2010.
Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) - Professional Outreach Award, 2008.
Best Paper Award, IEEE SOCNE 07 Workshop at IEEE AINA, 2007, Niagara, Canada.
Funding:
NSERC CRD (Collaborative Research and Development), 2020
Mitacs Accelerate Grants with CUTRIC and Kings Distributed
Systems, 2020
Queen's Research Opportunities Funds (QROF), 2019
New Frontiers in Research Fund (Coinvestigator), 2019
NSERC CREATE (co-PI) on Cybersecurity, 2019
Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC), 2019
OCE VIP I, 2018
IBM, Mitacs, and CIMVHR Funding, collaborators: University
of Manitoba and University of Toronto, 2018
IBM Centre for Advanced Computing (CAS) research grant, 2018
Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) Grant, 2018
NSERC Discovery Grant, 2018
IBM CRDC and SOSCIP (Southern Ontario Smart Computing
Innovation Platform) Funding, collaborator: Gnowit and IBM, 2017
Research Initiation Grant, School of Computing, Queen's
University, 2017
Professional Membership:
Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association (CAIAC)
Expert team member, Queen's Conflicts Analytics Lab
AI Expert, Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC) Advisory Group
Big Data Analytics Expert, SOSCIP Scientific Advisory Committee
Licensed member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO)
IEEE Computer Society
INSTICC (Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication)
Conference Technical Programme Committee Member:
IBM CASCON (2016-2017), International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER) (2015- 2017), ACM Symposium of Applied Computing (SAC) Cloud Computing track (2011-2017), International Conference on Advances in Big Data Analytics (ABDA'17), International Conference on Applied Cognitive Computing (ACC'17)International Conference on Grid, Cloud, and Cluster Computing (GCC'17), International Conference on Health Informatics and Medical Systems (HIMS'17), International Conference on Internet Computing and Internet of Things (ICOMP'17)