Bernard Okuku is a Lecturer and the immediate former Chairman of the department of Information Technology and currently the Patron of the Multimedia University of Kenya Presidential Award club.

He is a practical educator, a mentor, a researcher and a consultant in the Information Systems domain. He strives to consistently carry out sustainable development research that transforms the community socially and through technological interventions.

Cumulatively, Bernard has over 24 years of teaching experience in the university.

Academic Qualifications:

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Information Technology (Final stage), Murang’a University of Technology (MUT).
• Master of Science (MSc) in Information Systems, University of Nairobi.
• Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Mathematics and Computer Science, JKUAT.

Professional Qualifications

• IBM Artificial Intelligence Analyst

Membership of Professional Bodies or Associations

• British Computer Society Expert Systems Specialist Group.
• Association of Computer Machinery(ACM)

Research Interest

• Machine Learning; ICT4D; Natural Language Processing.
• E-Health and Educational Technology; Applications of artificial intelligence in health and education in developing countries.
• Applications of multi-agent systems in scheduling in dynamic environments such as grid computing.

Publications

[2012] Okuku, B.O., Elisha T. O. Opiyo. An efficient agent-based wireless communication model. In the proceedings of The 3rd International Conference on Internet Technology and Applications (iTAP 2012), August 18-20, 2012 in Wuhan, China. To appear in IEEE Xplore and indexed by Ei Compendex.

[2008] Okuku, B.O., Elisha T. O. Opiyo. Cooperative Problem Solving: A Case Study

of the Mobile Phone Technology.  (For presentation in the Third Africa Annual Universities

ICT Conference in Makerere University- Uganda).