Dr. Jude Kong is a professor at York University (www.judekong.ca), Canada and the founding Director of the Africa-Canada Artificial Intelligence and Data Innovation Consortium (ACADIC) (http://acadic.org). Additional, he is a member of the Canadian Black Scientist Network, a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Mathematics for Public Health Network, and a member of the Canadian COVID-19 Modelling Rapid Response Task Force. Dr. Kong is an expert in artificial intelligence, data science, applied mathematics, mathematical modelling, infectious disease modelling and mathematics education. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he has been leading an interdisciplinary team of more than 50 researchers from key academic and government institutions in nine African countries that have been leveraging Artificial Intelligence to predict and forecast COVID-19 infections in Africa. In 2020, he won a York Research Leader Award.