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Ken Barker is a Professor and Director of ISPIA at the University of Calgary's Department of Computer Science within the Faculty of Science. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta (1990) and has extensive experience in industrial computer systems and database design. His research focuses on distributed systems, data privacy/security, bioinformatics, and heterogeneous systems. He has served as Dean of the Faculty of Science, Department Head of Computer Science, and Past President of the Canadian Association of Computer Science (CACS/AIC). His work emphasizes privacy-preserving technologies, blockchain applications, and event understanding systems.
Barker has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers across domains like transaction systems, spatial databases, and astro-informatics. He advocates for balancing data utility with privacy through frameworks like the Privacy Policy Permission Model. His contributions include the CHRONOS event prediction system and blockchain-based platforms for secure data storage.
