Author: Michael

Dr. Michael Opoku Agyeman is an Associate Professor and Programme Leader of Computer Systems Engineering at the University of Northampton (UoN), UK. He is Chartered Engineer (CEng) of the IET, Chartered Manager (CMgr) of CMI and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (UK). Michael represents the research community of UoN at the University Senate. He is the Postgraduate Research (PGR) Lead for the Faculty of Arts Science and Technology and Technology and the University’s Chairs PGR Supervisory Forum. Michael has over 10 years of experience in Embedded Systems Design. Michael is the 2018/19 Elected Senate representative for academic staff from the Faculty of Arts, Science and Technology (FAST) at the University of Northampton. Previously, he was with Intel Embedded System Research group of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) as a Research Fellow, where he worked on reliable wireless Network-on-Chip solutions. He is the author of 5 books, 2 book chapters and over 70 publications in major journals and conference proceedings. Michael has won 2 best papers and 1 best paper in poster session at reputable international conference. Michael’s research interest spans across 3 main strands and disciplines: 1. High Performance Computing; 2. Business Administration (Neuromarketing, advertising and marketing research) and; 3. Pedagogy He has been a Guest Editor of the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems. He is a technical committee member of over 10 conferences such as IEEE ICCSN, IEEE ICBDA and IEEE ICCT. He is also a reviewer of several conferences and journals including IEEE TVLSI and TCAD. He is the first winner of the Diamond Early Career Research Award at the University of Northampton in 2019. He is also the winner of the University of Northampton’s 2018 International Changemaker of the year award.

Michael Wins Early Career Research Diamond Award

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CIDI’s Smart and Connected Systems (SCS) research theme leader Dr Michael Opoku Agyeman wins Early Career Research Diamond Award at UoN’s Pure Launch & Research Diamond Awards (2019).

“Just as a diamond can lie buried within the ground, and needs to be shaped, polished and brought out into the light, so too does our research. Just as a diamond can have a profound effect on others, so too can our research, increasing in significance and reach long after we are gone!”

Celebrating research excellence at the University of Northampton. A special thank you to the University of Northampton research community: staff that make it happen, and the staff who supervise, develop and grow a new generation of researchers as well as the postgraduate researchers.

“Dr Michael Opoku Agyeman continues to impress with not only his outstanding research
contribution in his field but also the quality of his teaching…”. “Though he is an early career researcher, his Management, Teaching, Research and International Relation responsibilities are outstanding and continues to attract international reputation. “

This Award focused on excellence in research for researchers and/or Doctorate students with up to 5 years of post-Doctorate experience. Excellence is demonstrated through contributions to one’s field of study, an ability to provide a stimulating and challenging research environment that incorporates students and teaching, and an ability to communicate research results effectively to relevant audiences. Staff and doctoral students were invited to nominate for five award categories. 59 Nominations were received. These nominations were reviewed by a panel from the research community at the University of Northampton, that selected the top nominations for each award.

Interesting article in BBC News this morning (2/04/19) involving the use of air-monitoring backpack to measure nitrogen dioxide and the smallest particles, called PM2.5.

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Source: BBC News

Full Story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47777103

Highlights:

  • “The countdown has begun to the launch of one of the world’s boldest attempts to tackle air pollution.”
  • “The initiative comes as scientists say the impacts of air pollution are more serious than previously thought.”
  • “One of the things that has troubled me is that because we can’t see the particulate matter, the nitrogen dioxide, the poison, you don’t take it seriously.”
  • “But over the last few decades, research has revealed how gases like nitrogen dioxide and tiny particles, known as particulate matter or PM, can reach deep into the body with the danger of causing lasting damage.”

Liliana Presents on ILP

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Paper: Liliana Margarita Espinosa Jimenez and Michael Opoku Agyeman. 2018. A Study of Techniques to Increase Instruction Level Parallelisms. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Computer Science and Intelligent Control (ISCSIC ’18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 41, 5 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3284557.3284562

Noor Presents on Reconfigurable Accelerators for Cloud Computing

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Paper: Noor Mohammedali and Michael Opoku Agyeman. 2018. A Study of Reconfigurable Accelerators for Cloud Computing. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Computer Science and Intelligent Control (ISCSIC ’18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 17, 5 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3284557.3284563

Mr. Julius Azasoo: PhD Researcher

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Julius Azasoo received his BSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana in 2008 and continued to finish his Master of Philosophy in Computer Engineering in 2012. He worked as a Transmission Engineer at Huawei Technologies and Data Network Engineer with Vodafone Ghana. Prior to his Research Studentship at The University of Northampton, he was a Faculty Member at School of Technology at GIMPA, where he teaches Electronics, Embedded Systems, Numerical Methods and Computer Networking. He loves teaching and using his research to solve practical issues in the society. Julius has been at the forefront of creativity right from his college days and has received several national awards for invention and creativity. His research areas are embedded systems, Wirelese Sensor Networks, Software Define Radios, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence with a special focus on smart grid and related optimization techniques.
 

Achievements

  1. Second place Winner of the International Cortext Lab Challenge,IRACON Training School, France Grant, 2018 
  2. IRACON Training School, Ireland Grant 2018 
  3. IRACON Training School, France Grant 2018  
  4. EMDOC Logo Competition Winner 2017 
  5. Organising Member and Section Chair of the Graduate School PGR and ECR Conference 2017
  6. Beneficiary of Santander Mobility Fund 2017 

Publications.

  1. PAR Reduction in Generation Constrained Power System Through Microload Management (Under review 2018)
  2. AZASOO, J.Q., Kuada, E., Boateng, K.O. and Agyeman, M.O., 2017, June. An algorithm for micro-load shedding in generation constrained electricity distribution network. In PowerAfrica, 2017 IEEE PES (pp. 396-401). IEEE.
  3. Tweneboah-Koduah, S., Tsetse, A.K., AZASOO, J.Q. and Endicott-Popovsky, B., 2018. Evaluation of Cybersecurity Threats on Smart Metering System. In Information Technology-New Generations (pp. 199-207). Springer, Cham.
  4. Azasoo, Julius Quarshie, and Kwame Osei Boateng. “Optimizing the effects of load-shedding through micro-load management in generation constrained power system.” In Computer and Communications (ICCC), 2016 2nd IEEE International Conference on, pp. 2938-2943. IEEE, 2016.
  5. Owusu-Ansah, S., Azasoo, J.Q. and Adu, I.N., 2016. Understanding the effects of techno-stress on the performance of banking staff. International Journal of Business Continuity and Risk Management, 6(3), pp.222-237.
  6. Engmann, F., Abdulai, J.D. and Azasoo, J.Q., 2016, July. Enhancing the Reliability of WSN Through Wireless Energy Transfer. In International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (pp. 610-618). Springer, Cham.
  7.  Azasoo, J.Q. and Boateng, K.O., 2015, June. A Retrofit Design Science Methodology for Smart Metering Design in Developing Countries. In Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA), 2015 15th International Conference on (pp. 1-7). IEEE. 
  8. Engmann, F., Abdulai, J.D. and Azasoo, J.Q., 2015, June. Improving on the reliability of wireless sensor networks. In Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA), 2015 15th International Conference on (pp. 87-91). IEEE.

Curriculum Development/Text Books

  1. Azasoo, J., 2018. Multimedia Tools and Applications. Link: http://oer.avu.org/handle/123456789/687
  2. Azasoo, J., 2018. Web Technologies and Internet Programming. Link: http://oer.avu.org/handle/123456789/686