Thesis and Dissertation Committee

• Chair, Doctoral dissertation committee- Jones Yeboah. “Using natural language techniques to assess user feedback on static analysis
• Member, Doctoral dissertation committee- Itodo Cornelius. “A novel framework for the adoption of zero trust security for small, medium, and large scale organizations”. 2024
• Chair, Masters thesis committee- Joanna Schmidt. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software in higher education. 2025
• Member, Masters thesis committee- Sai Meenakshi Hariharan. “Development of a mHealth Solution for Wellness”. 2024
• Member, Masters thesis committee- Joshua Berkoh. “The application of open-source intelligence on criminal investigations”. 2024
• Member, Masters thesis committee- Fidelis Alu. “Artificial Intellige facing systems for space exploration”. 2023
• Member, Masters thesis committee- Ahmad Abdulquadir. “Usability Study of Canvas learning Management Systems”. 2022
• Member, Masters thesis committee- Opeyemi Abdulsalam. “Development of a technology intervention for compassion cultivation during transition to parenthood”.

Academic Service

• PC Member. 26th ACM Annual Conference on Cybersecurity and IT Education (SIGCITE), 2025
• PC Member. Artifact Evaluation at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, 2024-2025
• PC Member. International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science, 2022-2024
• PC Member. Models and Evolution Workshop at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, 2020-2024
• Reviewer. International Journal on Software and Systems Modelling
• Reviewer. Software and Practice Journal
• Reviewer. European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications (ECMFA), 2017, 2019.
• Reviewer. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, 2018, 2019, 2020.

Other Service

• Instructor. University of Cincinnati Early IT Summer Camp.
• Judge and Score Keeper: University of Alabama Robotics contest for Elementary, middle and high school students [2017,2018, and 2019].
• Camp Instructor: University of ALabama CS summer camps for middle and high school students [2017, 2018, and 2019]

Grants

• Research Launch Award. Office of Research at the University of Cincinnati
• Research Assistant, NSF INCLUDES, Summer 2020, The Alabama Alliance for an Inclusive Middle Grades Computer Science Preparation through Makerspaces in the Alabama Black Belt Region

Awards

• 2017 ACM Travel Grants to MODELS conference (amount $500)
• 2014 National Information and Technology Development Agency (NITDA) Scholarship for Masters study in the UK (only 2 recipients were chosen from each state in Nigeria)
• 2013 African Capacity Building Foundation Scholarship for masters program at the African University of Science and Technology, Abuja, Nigeria.
• 2011 MIT/ AITI incubation First prize award. Awarded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and African Internet technology Initiative(now known as Global Startup Labs gsl.mit.edu).
• 2010 and 2011 MTNF Scholarship Award, MTN Nigeria Foundation.
• 2011 Oyo State Government Scholarship Award, Nigeria.

Selected Training

• 17th Software Engineering Educators Workshop. Organized by Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Melon University. August 2020.
• Teaching and Technology Workshop. Organized by University of Alabama System Scholar Institute and College of Professional and Continuing Studies, University of Alabama in Huntsville. May 2019.
• Business Innovation for Digital Technology. Organized by Department of Computer Science, University of York. September 2015
• Mobile Technologies Incubation. Organized by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Accelerating Information Technology Innovation (now Global Startup Labs – gsl.mit.edu). June 2011 – August 2011

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