VII BRISPE 2024
Advisory Board
Advisory Board
Advisory Board
Chinasa T. Okolo
Fellow/Expert – Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation
Dr. Okolo holds a B.A. in computer science from Pomona College, a M.S. in computer science from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell University. She also serves as a Consulting Expert with the African Union, contributing to the development of the AU-AI Continental Strategy for Africa, and as an Ethics Advisor to the Equiano Institute, a research lab focused on steering safe and trustworthy AI in Africa. (https://www.brookings.edu/people/chinasa-t-okolo/)
Speakers in the VII BRISPE Program
Jésus Mena-Chalco
Professor – Center of Mathematics, Computation and Cognition (CMCC), Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC)
Professor at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC), teaching in the Graduate Program in Computer Science and the bachelor’s degree in science, and technology. His work focuses on computer science and information science, particularly in pattern recognition through graph mining, and academic data mining involving bibliometrics and scientometrics. His current research projects aim at discovering knowledge from extensive volumes of academic data. He holds a degree in systems engineering from the National University of San Agustín (2000). His master's thesis was awarded first place at the XIII Latin American Master's Thesis Contest by CLEI/UNESCO-2006, and his doctoral thesis was among the top ten in Computer Graphics and Image Processing at SIBGRAPI-2011. He is a former member of the Research Integrity Office (EIP) of UFABC and current member of the Program Committee of the VII BRISPE. Google Scholar Profile.
Advisory Board
Advisory Board
Advisory Board
Véronique Kiermershe
Editor-Chief Scientific Officer at PLOS
(to be confirmed)
Véronique Kiermer is the Chief Scientific Officer at PLOS where she oversees the editorial department and the development of services, products, and policies to promote open science. Before joining PLOS in 2015, she held various editorial roles with the Nature journals, and worked in R&D in the biotechnology industry. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Keystone Symposia, ORCID and on the Steering Committee of PREreview.(https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/author/veronique-kiermer/)
Lex Bouter
Professor – Emeritus of Methodology and Integrity, Amsterdam University Medical Centers|Department of Epidemiology and Data Science|Amsterdam Public Health research institute
(to be confirmed)
Professor and tenured chair in Methodology and Integrity at the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics of the Amsterdam University Medical Centers and the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities of the Vrije Universiteit. Before taking up the current position he was professor of Epidemiology since 1992. In 1988 he published a textbook on epidemiology, the seventh revised Dutch edition of which appeared in 2016 and the first English edition in 2018. He served his university as its rector between 2006 and 2013. Subsequently, Professor Bouter prepared for a return to science during a sabbatical leave. In 2014 his tenured professorship was broadened to Methodology and Integrity. He is currently involved in teaching and research regarding responsible conduct of research. Professor Bouter has supervised 76 PhD students, of whom to date 16 were appointed as professor. In 2017, Professor Bouter organized the 5th World Conference on Research Integrity in Amsterdam and became chair of the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation.