SHORT BIO
Gaoussou CAMARA is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at Alioune Diop University in Bambey (UADB), Senegal. He is leading the Interdisciplinary Research Team in Medical Informatics and ICT for Education (IMTICE). Gaoussou specializes in management of biomedical data and knowledge.
His work focuses on the design of electronic health records, hospital information systems and health surveillance systems. His work in the field of domain and process ontologies engineering is applied to infectious diseases surveillance. The objective of the latter is to demonstrate that the use of these ontologies makes it possible to overcome the limitations related to the multidisciplinarity of the actors involved in epidemiological surveillance, the integration of heterogeneous data sources, the composition of numerical and qualitative simulation models with different formalisms and the difficulty of collecting numerical data in real time.
Gaoussou is co-founder of the National Medical Information System for Senegal (SIMENS) project. He is COO of the startup Pyramidal Health Information Systems (PyramidHIS) which emerged from SIMENS.
He has also coordinated the Digital Science and Technology Network (DSTN) of the ACE-Partner project from June 2020 to June 2024.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Computer Science, University Gaston Berger (UGB), Senegal, 2019
Concentrations: Ontology EngineeringDissertation: Design of an ontology-based epidemiological surveillance system: application to
schistosomiasis in Senegal
Dissertation Advisors: Prof. Moussa Lo (UGB) et Prof. Sylvie Despres (Paris 13 Nord)

M.Sc., Computer Science, University Gaston Berger (UGB), Senegal, 2009
Concentrations: Computer Science, Knowledge Engineering
Thesis: State of the art on knowledge management and epidemiology modeling
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Moussa Lo (UGB)

M.Eng., Computer Science, University Gaston Berger (UGB), Senegal, 2008
Concentrations: Computer Science, Semantic Web
Thesis: Interactive visualization of a Virtual Reality knowledge base
Thesis Advisor: Fabien Gandon, Ph.D., Inria, Sophia Antipolis

B.Sc., Computer Science, University Gaston Berger (UGB), Senegal, 2006

       Summer Schools, Doctoriales and trainings
Summer School on Process Ontology in 2011 and 2013 (Florence, Italie)
Summer School on Ontology Engineering and the Semantic Web in 2012 (Madrid, Espagne)

IAOA Interdisciplinary Summer School on Ontological Analysis 2012 (Trento, Italie)
Doctoriales International Doctoral Program / Complex System Modeling 2011, 2012, 2013 (Bondy, France)
Doctoriales ED393 in Public Health of the University Paris 6 (Saint Malo, France)
      Doctoral Research Mobility at LIMICS Paris 13 in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013
      Postdoctoral Research mobility at LIMICS Paris 13 in 2016
      Training on GAMA platform in 2009 (Hanoi, Vietnam)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor
University Alioune Diop of Bambey, Senegal, 2018-Present
Courses: Information Systems and Databases, Business Intelligence (Datawarehouse, ETL, Reporting,
OLAP, Dashboard), Data Integration, Semantic Web, Scientific Information Research and Management –
Hands on with Zotero

Senior Lecturer
University Alioune Diop of Bambey, Senegal, 2014-2018
Courses: Information Systems and Databases, Business Intelligence (Datawarehouse, ETL, Reporting,
OLAP, Dashboard), Data Integration

Teaching Assistant
University Alioune Diop of Bambey, Senegal, 2010-2014
Courses: Information Systems and Databases, Business Intelligence (Datawarehouse, ETL, Reporting,
OLAP, Dashboard), Java

Teaching Assistant
University Gaston Berger, Senegal, 2009-2010
Courses: Algorithm and Programming (Pascal, C, C++)

Invited Lecturer
University Nazi Boni, Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
Courses: Data Integration (2014, 2015, 2016), Semantic Web (2014, 2017), e-Health (2019)

Invited Lecturer
University Yaounde 1, Cameroun
Courses: Semantic Web (2017, 2019)

Invited Lecturer
Polytechnical School of Thies, Senegal
Courses: Datawarehouse and Data Integration (2017, 2019, 2020)

Invited Lecturer
University Gaston Berger, Senegal
Courses: Multidimensional database (2017), Reporting (2020), Semantic Web (2018, 2020), Introduction
to Medical Informatics / e-Health (2016 to 2020)

Invited Lecturer
University Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Senegal
Courses: Ontologies and Semantic Web for more Intelligible Data Analysis (2014)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
IMTICE Research-Team Leader
Founding member and scientific leader of the Interdisciplinary Research Team in Medical Informatics and Information and Communication Technologies for Education (IMTICE)

Co-Investigator of the project “A Framework for Digital Transformation of Senegalese Universities:
Lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic” (RESILIENCE)
The project aimed at studying the pedagogic, social, technical and economic factors that are likely to have knock-on effects for the continuity and quality of Senegalese tertiary education during the COVID-19 pandemic. We sought to identify and evaluate how COVID-19 education's policies may affect educational and professional outcomes in the high education sector, and to develop and propose implementable solutions to curb their adverse effects.

Co-founder of the National Medical Information System for Senegal (SIMENS) project
The SIMENS project aims to develop an information system for the management of medical and administrative activities and data of health facilities in Senegal.

Co-Investigator of the e-Emergency Saint-Louis project
e-Emergency aims at building an integrated information system in the emergency services of the Saint- Louis region. It concerns the experimentation of the shared electronic patient record and telemedicine through the network of emergency services in the northern zone of Senegal.

Principal Investigator of the Management and Access of Biomedical knowledge through Ontology network (MABO) project.
The MABO project brings together 7 universities from 4 different countries: Senegal (Alioune Diop University of Bambey and Gaston Berger University of Saint-Louis), Côte d'Ivoire (Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët Boigny), Burkina Faso (Nazi Boni University of Bobo Dioulasso, Ouaga
1 University Professor Joseph KI-ZERBO) and Cameroon (University of Yaoundé 1 and University of Maroua) It focuses on the management and capitalization of biomedical knowledge (modern and traditional) in West and Central Africa, and its dissemination to the general public. It aims also at leading to the creation of a sub-regional research team and an inter-university master's degree in the same topics.

PUBLICATIONS
A selection from the last five years (more here https://sites.google.com/site/gaoussoucamara/publications)

Azanzi, J., Tapamo, H., Camara, G., 2023. Combining Scrum and Model Driven Architecture for the development of an epidemiological surveillance software. Revue Africaine de Recherche en Informatique et Mathématiques Appliquées Volume 39-2023, 9873. https://doi.org/10.46298/arima.9873

Jiomekong, Azanzi, Tapamo, H., Camara, G., 2023. An Ontology for Tuberculosis Surveillance System, in: Ortiz-Rodriguez, F., Villazón-Terrazas, B., Tiwari, S., Bobed, C. (Eds.), Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, pp. 1–15.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47745-4_1

Kindo, A.A., Malo, S., Camara, G., Kaladzavi, G., Tapsoba, T.M.Y., Kolyang, 2023. How to Handle Fuzzy Aspects in African Sociocultural Ontology, in: Novais, P., Julián Inglada, V., Hornos, M.J., Satoh, I., Carneiro, D., Carneiro, J., Alonso, R.S. (Eds.), Ambient Intelligence – Software and Applications – 14th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems.
Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, pp. 179–188. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43461-7_18
Sene, J.P.M., Ndiaye, N.M., Camara, G., Lishou, C., 2023. Intégration et Implémentation de MOSCEPA

Modèle de Scénarisation Pédagogique Adaptatif. Sciences Appliquées et de l’Ingénieur 5, 101–106. Thiam, A., Ndiaye, N.M., Camara, G., 2023. Classification des apprenants en fonction des facteurs socio- économiques et environnementaux influençant leurs réussites dans un dispositif de formation à distance. Sciences Appliquées et de l’Ingénieur 5, 107–112.
Diallo, A., Camara, G., Camara, F., Mboup, A., 2022. Artificial Intelligence approaches to predict COVID-19 infection in Senegal. Procedia Computer Science, The 13th International Conference on
Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT) / The 5th International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry 4.0 (EDI40) 201, 764–770. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2022.03.104
Farota, S.B., Diallo, A.H., Ba, M.L., Camara, G., Diagne, I., 2022. An AI-Based Model for the Prediction of a Newborn’s Sickle Cell Disease Status, in: Mambo, A.D., Gueye, A., Bassioni, G. (Eds.), Innovations and Interdisciplinary Solutions for Underserved Areas. Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, pp. 96–104. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23116-2_7

Diallo, A.H., Camara, G., Lo, M., Diagne, I., Lamy, J.B., 2020. Iconic Visualization of Sickle Cell Patients Current and Past Health Status. Stud Health Technol Inform 272, 71–74.https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI200496
Bere, W.-P.R.C., Camara, G., Malo, S., Despres, S., Lo, M., Ouaro, S., 2020. Extraction of Relevant Data from Social Media Based on Termino-Ontological Resources: Application to Meningitis
Surveillance via Twitter, in: Thorn, J.P.R., Gueye, A., Hejnowicz, A.P. (Eds.), Innovations andInterdisciplinary Solutions for Underserved Areas. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 52–63.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51051-0_4

Béré, W.R.C., Camara, G., Malo, S., Lo, M., Ouaro, S., 2019. IDOMEN: An Extension of Infectious
Disease Ontology for MENingitis. Stud Health Technol Inform 264, 313–317. https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI190234

Cisse, P.A., Camara, G., Dembele, J.M., Lo, M., 2019. An Ontological Model for the Annotation of Infectious Disease Simulation Models, in: Bassioni, G., Kebe, C.M.F., Gueye, A., Ndiaye, A. (Eds.),
Innovations and Interdisciplinary Solutions for Underserved Areas. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 82–91. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34863-2_8
Diallo, A.H., Camara, G., Lamy, J.B., Lo, M., Diagne, I., Makalou, D., Diop, M., Doupa, D., 2019.
SIMENS-LIS4SC, a Laboratory Information System for Biological Tests of Sickle Cell Screening and Healthcare. Stud Health Technol Inform 264, 611 615. https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI190295

Diallo, A.H., Camara, G., Lamy, J.B., Lo, M., Diagne, I., Makalou, D., Diop, M., Doupa, D., 2019. Towards an Information System for Sickle Cell Neonatal Screening in Senegal. Stud Health Technol Inform 258, 95–99. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-959-1-95

Jiomekong, A., Camara, G., Tchuente, M., 2019. Extracting ontological knowledge from Java source code using Hidden Markov Models. Open Computer Science 9, 181–199. https://doi.org/10.1515/comp-2019-0013

Mbaye, O., Ba, M.L., Camara, G., Sy, A., Mboup, B.M., Diallo, A., 2019. Towards an Efficient Prediction Model of Malaria Cases in Senegal, in: Bassioni, G., Kebe, C.M.F., Gueye, A., Ndiaye, A. (Eds.), Innovations and Interdisciplinary Solutions for Underserved Areas. Springer International
Publishing, Cham, pp. 173–188. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34863-2_15

Sene, J.P.M., Ndiaye, N.M., Lishou, C., Camara, G., 2019. MOSCEPA(Adaptive Pedagogocal Scripting Model): Towards a New Adaptive Model of Educational Scriptwriting for LMS, in: 2019 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON). Presented at the 2019 IEEE Global Engineering
Education Conference (EDUCON), IEEE, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, pp. 1146–1151. https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2019.8725027

Jiomekong, A., Camara, G., 2018. An Approach for Knowledge Extraction from Source Code (KNESC) of Typed Programming Languages, in: Trends and Advances in Information Systems and Technologies, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Presented at the World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, Springer, Cham, pp. 122–131. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77703-0_12

Béré, W.R.C., Camara, G., Malo, S., Lo, M., Ouaro, S., 2017. Towards Meningitis Ontology for the Annotation of Text Corpora, in: Innovation and Interdisciplinary Solutions for Underserved Areas. Springer, Cham, pp. 322–331. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72965-7_30

Camara, G., Diallo, A.H., Lo, M., Tendeng, J.-N., Lo, S., 2016. A National Medical Information System for Senegal: Architecture and Services. Stud Health Technol Inform 228, 43–47. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-678-1-43

SELECTED TALKS
“Doctoral Programs in Sub-saharan Africa - Challenges and prospects: A reflection from 5 doctoral support programs operators in sub-Saharan Africa.”, COREVIP 2023 (Windhoek, Namibia)
“Challenges and perspectives in the management of patient records in Senegal: experiences from the SIMENS project”, LIRIMA/Inria Seminar series 2021 (Online)
“Towards an Information System for Sickle Cell Neonatal Screening in Senegal”, EFMI STC 2019 (Hanovre, Allemagne)
“An Approach for Knowledge Extraction from Source Code (KNESC) of Typed Programming Languages”, WorldCIST 2018 (Naples, Italie)
“IDOSCHISTO : une extension de l’ontologie noyau des maladies infectieuses (IDO-Core) pour la schistosomiase”, IC 2014 (Clermont Ferrand, France)
“Design of schistosomiasis ontology (IDOSCHISTO) extending the infectious disease ontology”, MEDINFO 2013 (Copenhague, Danemark)
“A Study of an Infectious Disease Ontology: the Epidemiological Perspective”, EKAW 2012 (Galway, Irlande) "Vers une ontologie des processus de propagation des maladies infectieuses”, IC 2012 (Paris, France)
“Towards an ontology for an Epidemiological Monitoring System”, ISCRAM 2012 (Vancouver, Canada)

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Invited Professor, University Paris 13, France, 2019
Team: Laboratory in Medical Informatics and Knowledge Engineering in e-Health (LIMICS)
Research project: process ontology engineering, knowledge bases and electronic health record, visualization of patient information in SIMENS EHR

IRD long term mission, University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroun, 2019
Team: International Laboratory for Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Complex Systems (UMMISCO)
Research project: Ontology-based epidemiological surveillance system applied to EPICAM platform, knowledge extraction from Java source code using Hidden Markov Model

PhD Grant, International Doctoral Program in Complex System Modeling, 2010-2013
Team: Laboratory in Numerical Analysis and Computer Science (LANI)
Research project: Design of an ontology-based epidemiological surveillance system: application to schistosomiasis in Senegal

Master Internship Grant, Inria, Sophia Antipolis, France, 2008
Team : Exchanges, Documents, Extraction, Languages, Web, Ergonomics, Interactions, Semantics,
Servers (EDELWEISS, actual WIMMICS)
Research project: Interactive visualization of a Virtual Reality knowledge base

AWARDS AND HONORS
Winner, with Omar Faye, of the logo contest for FOIS2014 organized by IAOA
Among the 3 best posters (out of 50) at the "SSSW2012" summer school
AFIA Award for the best paper at the "Ingénierie des Connaissances" conference (IC2012)
Best Presentation Award at the "Modeling Complexity" conference, PDI/MSC2011
Qualified as Associate Professor by CAMES, Africa (July 2018)
Qualified as Senior Lecturer by CAMES, Africa (July 2014)
Qualified as Senior Lecturer by CNU, France (January 2014)

SKILLS
Extensive knowledge of Knowledge engineering and representation, semantic reasoning, Semantic Web
and Web of data technologies (RDF, RDFS, OWL, SPARQL), Business Intelligence (Multidimensional
modeling, Datawarehouse, ETL, Reporting, OLAP, Dashboard), Electronic Health Record, Hospital
Information System, Databases and SQL
Advanced knowledge in Algorithms, Programming and Software Engineering (Agile, Scrum, CI/CD)
Programming ability in C/C++, Java, and PHP
Basic knowledge of Big Data and Machine/Deep Learning
Several experiences in Natural Language Processing and Visualization
Management of websites and social media platforms (Joomla, WordPress, Twitter, LinkedIn,
Facebook, Mailing lists, Newsletters)
Fluent in French, English, and Wolof

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Association Sénégalaise des Chercheurs en InformatIque (ASCII)
Association Sénégalaise pour l’Intelligence Artificielle (ASIA)
Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network – Africa www.rainafrica.org
Association Française d’Intelligence Artificielle (AFIA)
International Association on Ontologies and its Application (IAOA)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)