Editorial Board Member

Ken Barker is a professor of computer science at the University of Calgary. He holds a PhD in computing science from the University of Alberta (1990) and has many years of experience working with industrial computer systems. He has interest in system integration, distributed systems and the privacy and security of data repositories. He has served as the dean of the faculty of science and as head of computer science at the University of Calgary. He is the director of the University of Calgary’s Institute for Security, Privacy and Information Assurance and the president of the Alberta body of the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS Alberta). He is a past president of the Canadian Association of Computer Science (CACS/AIC) and has served on the Computer Science Accreditation Council. He has served as the Dean of the Faculty of Science and as the Department Head of Computer Science at the University of Calgary. As the director of research laboratories at the University of Calgary and University of Manitoba he has supervised over 60 graduate students, in addition to several postdoctorates and research assistants. Dr. Barker has published over 200 peer-reviewed publications.

Privacy, Security, Database systems, Data analytics, Heterogeneous systems, IoT