BE-STEMM 2024 Keynote address

• In-person: Library & Archives Canada
• Auditorium
• Livestreamed on the conference platform for registrants.

Dr. Beatrice Ombuki-Berman

Title: Artificial Intelligence is for everyone

Titre: L’intelligence artificielle est pour tout le monde

Biography

Dr. Beatrice Ombuki-Berman is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Brock University. Dr. Ombuki-Berman completed a BSc in Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (Kenya), a ME in Information Engineering and a PhD in Intelligent Systems Engineering at the University of the Ryukyus (Japan).

Dr. Ombuki-Berman was the Interim and founding Chair of Brock’s new Department of Engineering (2021/22) and serves as the equity officer for the Brock University Faculty Association (BUFA). She was the Deputy Chief Negotiator of the current BUFA Collective Agreement.  She is an active member of the Black Community Forum at Brock (BCfab). Dr. Ombuki-Berman is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation;  Swarm and Evolutionary Computation (Elsevier), Evolutionary Intelligence (Springer) and an Editorial Board Member, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier).

She is a past Associate Editor of EEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence. She is actively involved in the organization  (as Publicity Co-Chair and Session organizer) of a number of international conferences in her field including, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2024, Japan), IEEE Symposium Series on Computation Intelligence (Norway, 2025) and IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2024, Malaysia), among others.

Dr. Ombuki-Berman is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence whose research area focuses on Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Optimization with applications in Transportation logics/network science and various classes of challenging optimization problems arising in Operational research. Lately, she is also researching Machine learning, Optimization and Metaheuristics for Drug Design.

Dr. Ombuki-Berman’s research is supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). She serves as part of the selection and evaluation committee, scholarships and fellowships, computing Sciences at NSERC.