Category: Team

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

Mr Emmanuel Ofori-Attah: PhD Researcher

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Emmanuel Ofori-Attah is a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) at the Department of Computing and Immersive Technologies at the University of Northampton. He received his BEng (Hons) Degree in Computer Systems Engineering at the University of Northampton in 2016 and was offered a scholarship as a GTA and a funded PhD. As of 2017, Emmanuel is currently doing his PhD on Low Power Embedded Systems.

Publications and Presentations:

  1. Ofori-Attah, E., Opoku Agyeman, M. and Turner, S. J.(2018) A survey of application mapping techniques for many-core designs. Invited Presentation presented to: University of Northampton Research Conference 2018, University of Northampton, 20-21 June 2018.
  2. Ofori-Attah, E., Wang, X. and Opoku Agyeman, M. (2018) A survey of low power design techniques for last level caches. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 10824, pp. 217-228. 0302-9743.
  3. Ofori-Attah, E. and Opoku Agyeman, M. (2018) A survey of low power design techniques for last level caches.Poster presented to: 14th International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing (ARC 2018), Santorini, Greece, 02-04 May 2018.
  4. Ofori-Attah, E. and Opoku Agyeman, M. (2018) A survey of power-aware Network-on-Chip design techniques.The Thirteenth International Multi-Conference on Computing in Global Information Technology. 2308-4529. 
  5. Ofori-Attah, E., Opoku Agyeman, M. and Turner, S. J.(2018) Low power design for many core systems.Invited Presentation presented to: 3MT: Three-Minute Thesis Competition, Northampton, 21 June 2018. 
  6. Ofori-Attah, E., Wang, X. and Opoku Agyeman, M. (2018) A survey of system level power management schemes in the dark-silicon era for many-core architectures. EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems. 5(15) 2410-0218.
  7. Ofori-Attah, E., Bhebhe, W. and Opoku Agyeman, M.(2017) Architectural techniques for improving the power consumption of NoC-based CMPs: a case study of cache and network layer. Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications. 7(2) 2079-9268. 2016
  8. Ofori-Attah, E. and Opoku Agyeman, M. (2016) A survey of low power NoC design techniques. In: International Conference on High-Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers (HiPEAC). Sweden: ACM.
  9. Ofori-Attah, E. and Opoku Agyeman, M. (2016) A survey of low power techniques for efficient Network-on-Chip design. In: 23rd IEEE Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA). USA: IEEE. 
  10. Ofori-Attah, E. and Opoku Agyeman, M. (2016) A survey of recent contributions of high performance NoC architectures. In: IEEE Technically Sponsored Computing Conference 2017. London: IEEE. 

Mr. Ahmed Janabi: PhD Researcher

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Mr Ahmed Janabi. PhD Student in Wireless Network-on-Chip

Experience

  1. The Head of IT Unit Al-Mustaqbal University College Hilla, Babylon, Iraq November-2017 – September-2018
  2. Teaching Assistant Al-Mustaqbal University College Hilla, Babylon, Iraq October-2017 – September-2018
  3. PHP Developer
  4. Al – Kafil Institute for Information Technology
  5. Karbala, Iraq January-2018 – July-2018
  6. Teaching Assistant University of Babylon Hilla, Babylon, Iraq February-2018 – June-2018
  7. Teaching Assistant University of Babylon
    Hilla, Babylon, Iraq September-2017 – February-2018
  8. Teaching Assistant University of Babylon
    Hilla, Babylon, Iraq September-2017 – February-2018

Education

  1. BEng in Computer Network Engineering. University Drive, Northampton NN1 5PH, UK 2017
  2. BSc, University of Babylon Hilla, Babylon, Iraq 2014
  3. IELTS Course, Central Bedfordshire College Kingsway, Dunstable LU5 4HG, UK 2015

Skills

Programming Languages: PHP, Java-Script, HTML, CSS, ActionScript 3, jQuery, VB6, VB.net Networks (CISCO training), C# and C++., Applications: Eclipse, Notepad++, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, Adobe Flash Player, MatLab, Xcode, BlueJ, CAD, Android Studio and several others… Operating Systems: Windows Xp, 7, 8, 10, Macintosh OSX, Android, CentOS.

Languages

  1. Arabic English
  2. Advanced Advanced

Projects

  1. 2011-2014: Developed many VB projects in my high school/university carrier including the traffic light application, Accountant app, poker game, Clock Program and Other simpler projects include Rock Paper Scissors and calculator app.
  2. 2016: Developed a fully functional blackjack game using Shell Script language.
  3. 2016-2017: I developing an Internet of Things (IoT) Smart Home System project using Raspberry PI 3, Relay Shield, Android Studio, and a couple of sensors to make a web server-driven project, controlled by an Android application to control lights, TVs, Air-conditioners, ..Etc.
  4. 2017: I developing an Internet of Things (IoT) Smart City System project using Raspberry PI 3, Relay Shield, PHP, MySQL, GPS Device, and a couple of sensors to make a web server-driven project, when happening a traffic accident, the system will send a notice to the nearest police station and hospital and this notice contains the vehicle information and the location of the accident, by using Web application and Android application ..Etc.
  5. 2017: I developing an Internet of Things (IoT) Tracking the Elderly people project using android watch, Android Studio, PHP, MySQL, GPS Device, and a couple of sensors to make a web server-driven project, when the person wear the watch in his left hand and this watch will send the patient information to the monitor website and his android mobile application, this information including patients heartbeat, send a notification to the monitor if the patients heart stop, patients body temperature, the number of steps that patient walked today, the current location of the patient, the number of times that patient use the toilets. ..Etc.

Certificates & Courses

  1. 2014: Shield of Scientific Excellence from the University of Babylon.
    2016: 1st place in the (UoN) Internet Of Things “Entrepreneurship in Technology” Event.
    2016: MTA Networking Fundamentals Certification.
    2017: Shield of Scientific Excellence from the Iraqi Cultural Attaché in London.
    2017: Medal of Scientific Excellence from the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Iraq. 2017: 2nd place in the (UoN) Internet Of Things “Entrepreneurship in Technology” Event.
    2018: A certificate of thanks and appreciation from the Dean of Al-Mustaqbal University College.
    2018: Certificate of the best assistant teacher from the Dean of IT College/University of Northampton. 2018: Certificate of participation in the workshop QS for the University Ranking.

 

Full CV-

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.