Category: Research Leader

Podcast: Physical Computing, AI, IoT and Industry 4.0

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Had fun talking about Physical Computing📲💻🕹, AI💻👩‍🏫, IoT📱🏘 and Industry 4.0👩‍🔧🏗🖥 with colleagues from University of Northampton. An interesting discussion of the trending technologies and Research and Innovation in this podcast.

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Student Testimonials on Teaching: Nominations for FAST lecturer of the Year 2019

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  1. He has been of good help since I started studying. I moved from Belgium to study and since I came here with different language, Dr. Michael has helped me in all aspects of my studies and I am forever grateful. He takes his time to explain things. He even gave me personal info to message him anytime I need help which has been of great help.

  2. Very helpful in explaining things to do with the course.

  3. Outstanding level of teaching

  4. He’s a great guy

  5. Cool dude

  6. I enjoy the lectures and I like the style of teaching

  7. Great Lecturer

  8. “Michael has proven to be a very good lecturer as he has shown a lot of passion in the area which he is teaching. He is very helpful and makes a large attempt to make sure that everyone understands what he is teaching.”

  9. Good and very enthusiastic teacher

  10. He is very friendly to every single student.

  11. Shows off enthusiasm every lecture and provides plenty of examples within their own teaching. Assistance of the overall module has been pleasant. E.g. Relating the topic content to a real-life, everyday example to make it simpler to understand.

  12. Cool dude, a great lecturer

  13. I strongly believe that more than the results of its students, the success of a lecturer relies on the capability of the lecturer to arise the interest of the students in the module he teaches. If you asked me a couple of months ago, I would say that my interest in Computer Architecture is below average, but now due to the enthusiastic and passionate way of Dr. Michael in explaining this module, my interest has greatly increased. I therefore nominate him as an “Outstanding Lecturer of the Year”, due to the impact that the learning experience that I got from him had in changing “Computer Architecture” from my least favorite module to my recently favorite module.

  14. “Outstanding support and incredible attention to making the module as interesting as possible.

  15. Examples of that would be spending his own money on components to make the module interesting and engaging to every student, providing constant support with assembly and coding of the robot cars by making online tutorials and granting in-session support to anyone that needs it.”

  16. He is very good and he is trying his best with us to understand the module. He helps us even if we finished the lecture he stays with us until he make sure that we get and understand everything he give us.

  17. Consistent support in and out of the class

  18. During the first year of being at this university, I always felt as if i was falling behind and never seemed to quite click with the information taught to me during lectures. This resulted in my mind spiraling into a place of both discontent and self-doubt. The thought of dropping out 

  19. lingered in my thoughts as if a war was waging within my mind, and my will was on the losing side. However, on that fateful day. A single man emerged on the battle field and single handily repelled the army of negative emotions. That man, was Michael Opoku Agyeman. When asked how a single man can conquer an army on his lonesome, He turned, gave a slight chuckle and replied “I enjoy what I teach”. and with that he disappeared leaving behind nothing, but an Arduino RC car assembly kit and a few burnt LEDs.  Michael is honestly, the best lecturer i had the honor of  learning under. He clearly loves the subject he teaches as he always enters the classroom with enthusiasm and with the look of determination on his face to teach his students why he loves the subject. He is always friendly, easily approachable and willing to further explain a subject that leaves students puzzled. In addition to this, Micheal knows how to connect to students, always willing to have a joke whilst still retaining his professionalism during class. If  it wasn’t for his teaching style, I would have a hard time enjoying my course.

  20. Patient and outstanding for this course. He gave us feedback and help immediately and tried his best to help every students to understand the material. In addition,  the class becomes more active with his humorous teaching style. We can enjoy the free Pisa in his class.

  21. Good teaching and make the classes interesting every weeks. Made many tutorials online and in classes for students.

  22. Very nice teacher. his teaching style is very good as he will teach you everything you will need to know whilst maintaining a nice, friendly, funny personality/atmosphere. He also makes the module really easy to understand due to the way he explains it, plus he will frequently stop and ask if everyone gets what he is talking about which is nice because if people don’t understand, it gives them a chance to ask him about it and he will go back and explain it in another way that people will understand. Overall he is the best teacher at Northampton Uni hands down, no other lecturer even comes close and he really deserves the award.

  23. Just a nice lad

  24. He’s very supportive and encourages his students in all they do. He gives them hope and believes in them.

  25. “Michael is one of those teachers who makes classes not just enjoyable but he makes sure that we understand everything his extra knowledge in the subject helps us understand everything”

  26. Very supportive and make sure every student understands the lecture.

  27. He is a great teacher, his lectures are really enjoyable and fun, he makes things look so easy and understandable.

  28. I would like to nominate Prof Michael OPOKU AGYEMAN this is because he has been a great teacher through the module of computer system, he shown great passion of teaching and I really enjoy attending every class.

  29. “I would like to nominate MICHAEL because he’s a great teacher, he’s so friendly with all student and he is very helpful through teaching. I think he deserve this the award more than any others teachers. “

  30. Outstanding lecturer of the year

  31. He deserves it!

  32. Helpful and always willing to help.

  33. Outstanding assistance in lecturing and readiness to help

  34. He is a good teacher. Provides many resources on Nile and is a very enthusiastic individual with a clear passion for their subject area.

  35. Full of energy, supportive

  36. Over all good tutor, very helpful every week

  37. Good support and adviser

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.

Michael wins the UoN’s International Changemaker of the Year award.

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CIDI’s Smart and Connected Systems (SCS) research theme leader Dr Michael Opoku Agyeman wins the International Changemaker of the year award.

The award was in recognition of the significant impact made towards alleviating the social issues in developing countries through the SmartWorld project http://www.computing.northampton.ac.uk/~michael/SmartWorld/index.html.

Michael is the founder of the SmartWorld initiative, an international collaborative project that uses technology, particularly Internet-of-Things (IoT), to provide solutions to the potential crisis in developing countries.

Through the SmartWorld initiative, Michael has put new technology methods in place to produce a real-world practical solution to these issues in the form of projects, dissertations and research. In addition, the project has attracted externally funded international students to the University of Northampton. Michael continues to inspire students with his ambitious tenacity that highlights the multidisciplinary benefits of using computing to improve health and well-being on a global scale.

Dr. Michael Opoku Agyeman: Research Leader

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Dr. Michael Opoku Agyeman is a Charted Engineer (CEng) of the IET and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (UK) who is a Senior Lecturer and the Programme Leader of BEng, HND, MEng Computer Systems Engineering at the Department of Computing at the University of Northampton, UK. 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. He is an Associate member of the Chattered Management Institute (ACMI). 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 received the PhD in Embedded and Distributed Systems from Glasgow Caledonian University, UK, in 2014 and the MSc. degree in Embedded and Distributed Systems from London South Bank University, UK, in 2009. Michael received the BSc. (Hons.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana, in 2008.

He is the author of one book and over 50 publications in major conference proceedings and journals. His research interests include VLSI SoC design, computer architecture, reconfigurable computing, wired and wireless NoCs, smart rehabilitation solutions, embedded systems and Internet-of-Things (IoT). He has been a Guest Editor of the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems. Michael is currently a reviewer of several conferences and journals including IEEE TVLSI and TCAD. His work on wireless NoCs have attracted two best paper awards in IEEE/IFIP 14th International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing in 2016 (EUC) and Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD) 2016. He is the receiver of the UoN’s 2018 International Changemaker of the year award. He serves as a Technical Committee Member (TPC) of over 10 conferences including IEEE ICCSN, IEEE ICBDA, ICIIP and ICBDSC.