Farhana Zulkernine, Queen's University

Research

Distributed data management and analytics Information organization and retrieval Machine learning models and algorithms Medical data analytics Social data analytics Stream data analytics structured, semi-structured and unstructured data analytics voice and video bots

Latest papers

Ai-guided vectorization for efficient storage and semantic retrieval of visual data.
Discover artificial intelligence · 2026
A Multiagent Summarization and Auto-Evaluation Framework for Medical Text: Development and Evaluation Study.
JMIR AI · 2025 · senior author
A two-phase hybrid clustering framework exploring transitional activities in HAR.
Discover artificial intelligence · 2025

All 15 publications

Latest funding

Voice and Video-based Service Provisioning on the Cloud
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$148,572
Companion: A Cognitive Voice and Video Assistant Bot for Safe Aging
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$125,000
Companion: A Cognitive Voice and Video Assistant Bot for Safe Aging
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$125,000

All 8 grants and awards

15 publications.

01

Ai-guided vectorization for efficient storage and semantic retrieval of visual data.

Harby AA, Zulkernine F, Abdulsalam HM

Discover artificial intelligence2026

DOI: 10.1007/s44163-025-00713-y PMID: 41536766

02

A Multiagent Summarization and Auto-Evaluation Framework for Medical Text: Development and Evaluation Study.

Chen Y, Wen B, Zulkernine F

JMIR AI2025Senior author

DOI: 10.2196/75932 PMID: 41401442

03

A two-phase hybrid clustering framework exploring transitional activities in HAR.

Woo M, Harby AA, Zulkernine F, Abdulsalam HM

Discover artificial intelligence2025

DOI: 10.1007/s44163-025-00503-6 PMID: 40901245

04

Diagnosis and Management of Alzheimer's Disease in Primary Care: A Real-World Study in Ontario, Canada.

Ismail Z, Wilson M, Khalifa H, Belovich D, Shaw E, Pham T, McMullen S, Chen Y, Sadman N, Cai J, Zulkernine F, Barber D

Journal of primary care & community health2025

DOI: 10.1177/21501319251363156 PMID: 40819191

05

YOLO-I3D: Optimizing Inflated 3D Models for Real-Time Human Activity Recognition.

Luo R, Anand A, Zulkernine F, Rivest F

Journal of imaging2024

DOI: 10.3390/jimaging10110269 PMID: 39590733

06

Characterizing primary care patients with posttraumatic stress disorder using electronic medical records: a retrospective cross-sectional study.

Singer A, Kosowan L, Muthumuni D, Katz A, Zafari H, Zulkernine F, Richardson JD, Price M, Williamson T, Queenan J, Sareen J

Family practice2024

DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cmac139 PMID: 36490368

07

Implementing Triage-Bot: Supporting the Current Practice for Triage Nurses.

Sears K, Belbin S, Rashno E, Sharma D, Woo K, Zulkernine F, Neagu CD, Amani B, Alaca F

Surgical technology international2024

DOI: 10.52198/24.sti.44.wh1804 PMID: 39151148

08

Development and validation of a case definition to estimate the prevalence and incidence of cirrhosis in pan-Canadian primary care databases.

Faisal N, Kosowan L, Zafari H, Zulkernine F, Lix L, Mahar A, Singh H, Renner E, Singer A

Canadian liver journal2023

DOI: 10.3138/canlivj-2023-0002 PMID: 38152327

09

Pan-Canadian Electronic Medical Record Diagnostic and Unstructured Text Data for Capturing PTSD: Retrospective Observational Study.

Kosowan L, Singer A, Zulkernine F, Zafari H, Nesca M, Muthumuni D

JMIR medical informatics2022

DOI: 10.2196/41312 PMID: 36512389

10

Natural Language Processing of Computed Tomography Reports to Label Metastatic Phenotypes With Prognostic Significance in Patients With Colorectal Cancer.

Causa Andrieu P, Golia Pernicka JS, Yaeger R, Lupton K, Batch K, Zulkernine F, Simpson AL, Taya M, Gazit L, Nguyen H, Nicholas K, Gangai N, Sevilimedu V, Dickinson S, Paroder V, Bates DDB, Do R

JCO clinical cancer informatics2022

DOI: 10.1200/cci.22.00014 PMID: 36103642

Voice and Video-based Service Provisioning on the Cloud

Principal investigatorNSERC2022Research Tools and Instruments

Principal investigators: Zulkernine, Farhana

$148,572

Companion: A Cognitive Voice and Video Assistant Bot for Safe Aging

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration

Principal investigators: Zulkernine, Farhana

Keywords: voice and video bots; conversational systems; aging and voice communication; memory, attention and perception; aging and perception; avatar for video and voice communication; customer churn for voice bots; empathic communication; affective prosody; individualized technologies

$125,000

Companion: A Cognitive Voice and Video Assistant Bot for Safe Aging

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration

Principal investigators: Zulkernine, Farhana

Keywords: voice and video bots conversational systems aging and voice communication memory, attention and perception aging and perception avatar for video and voice communication customer churn for voice bots empathic communication affective prosody individualized technologies

$125,000

Triage-Bot: An AI-powered Assistive Triage Framework

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021New Frontiers in Research Fund - Special Call

Principal investigators: Zulkernine, Farhana

Keywords: Internet of Things Natural Language Processing Voice-Bot Face Video Analytics Medical Data Analytics Triage Patient Ranking Ethics and AI Medical Service Provisioning Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) Patient Monitoring Framework

$237,970

Learning Distributed Patterns from Multimodal Streaming Data

Principal investigatorNSERC2019Collaborative Research and Development Grants

Principal investigators: Zulkernine, Farhana

$194,000

Cybersecurity Training for Defending Canada's Government, Critical Infrastructure, Businesses, and Citizens

Co-investigatorNSERC2019Collaborative Research and Training Experience

Principal investigators: Skillicorn, David B

Keywords: compromised environments; critical infrastructure protection; cybersecurity; malware; network protection; social and legal aspects; systems and software security

$1,650,000

A Smart Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Management Framework

Principal investigatorNSERC2018Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Zulkernine, Farhana

Keywords: stream data analytics; information organization and retrieval; machine learning models and algorithms; distributed data management and analytics; structured, semi-structured and unstructured data analytics; social data analytics; medical data analytics

$196,000

A Smart Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Management Framework

Principal investigatorNSERC2018Discovery Launch Supplement

Principal investigators: Zulkernine, Farhana

$12,500

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Community Health Sciences
Nursing
School of Computing
School of Computing, Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences
Mathematics and Computer Science
Arts and Science, Faculty of
Internal Medicine
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