Dr. Johnson Ihyeh Agbinya
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Curruculum VitaeJOHNSON IHYEH AGBINYA (PhD, Alcatel Professor of Telecommunications Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa))4 The Freshwater, NSW 2567, Australia Mobile: +61414 20 9245 Fixed: 612 9514 2495; Fax: 612 9514 2435 http://www.cs.uwc.ac.za and http://www.eng.uts.edu.au/~agbinya/; عنوان البريد الإلكترونى هذا محمى من المتطفلين , تحتاج إلى تفعيل الجافا لتتمكن من رؤيته عنوان البريد الإلكترونى هذا محمى من المتطفلين , تحتاج إلى تفعيل الجافا لتتمكن من رؤيته CURRENT ROLES 1) ALCATEL PROFESSOR OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS (Content Development), French South African Technical Institute In Electronics (F’SATIE /Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria) 2) CORE MEMBER – Centre for Real-Time Information Networks, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia 3) CORE MEMBER AND ADJUNCT PROFESSOR – Telkom Centre of Excellence in IP Computing and Telecommunications, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa PIONEERSHIP • African Journal of Information and Communication Technologies (AJICT, 2004 to date) • IEEE International Conference on Broadband Communications http://broadcom.eng.uts.edu.au/broadcom08 • Brain Drain Brain Gain (2000) • Ex-President and Pioneering Member (Association of Nigerians Abroad ANA) EDUCATION PhD - Electronic Communication Engineering - La Trobe University, Bundoora; 1994 M.Sc - Electronic Communications Engineering - University of Strathclyde, Glasgow; 1982 B.Sc - Electronic/Electrical Engineering - University of Ife (OAU, Ife), Nigeria; 1977 CAREER PROFILE AND HIGHLIGHTS Highly experienced, hands-on engineer with over 30 years experience in a) Signal Processing (biometric systems, video/speech compression and coding, recognition systems) b) Information Communication networks (computer, mobile and telecommunication networks c) Real-time communications protocols and services (RTP, RTCP, RTSP, RSVP, SIP, VoIP, IPTV, Mobile TV) d) Satellite and Radar Communications (satellite earth stations and orbitals) e) Broadband communications, 3G, 4G, CDMA/GSM, WiMAX and UWB communications f) Computer Programming and Software Engineering for commercial applications g) PC Assembly h) Integrated Circuits Development ADMINISTRATIVE ROLE AND LEADERSHIP HIGHLIGHTS a) Program Head Engineering Practice Program / Capstone (UTS Engineering, 2004 - 2006) b) Managing Editor, African Journal of ICT c) Executive Committee Member (Australian Telecommunications Cooperative Research Centre) d) Executive Committee Member (Centre of Excellence in Internet Protocol Computing) – current e) Key Member Centre of Real Time Information Networks (CRIN) at UTS f) R&D Manager, Vodafone Australia g) Research Degree Committee Representative in ICT - current h) Head of Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Agriculture, Makurdi i) Chair of Organising Committee (IEEE International Conference on Wireless Broadband and Ultra Wideband Communications – 207, and 2006) TECHNICAL AND COMPUTING SKILLS Communication/Internet Technologies a) Data communication networks, system analysis and integration; b) Ad hoc Networks and unobservable data communication; c) Mobile communications, radio/WLAN networks/air interfaces (GSM, GPRS, CDMA / W-CDMA) d) Telecommunication Protocols; e) Data coding, compression, coding conversion (video, voice, multimedia streaming); f) Microwave radar, satellites and RF systems; Software development a) Embedded systems and microprocessors; b) Real-time systems programming; c) Commercial Software development; d) Object oriented programming; e) Strong Java and C/C++, D/HTML); JSP, ASP, SQL, Fortran, Matlab and Scilab; f) Software design, modeling (SDLC, UML, Rational Rose, Visual Source Safe), testing; g) Real-time operating systems, Windows and Microsoft products, UNIX and SunOS; Management, Technology/Product development a) Industry Research, R&D Management, Technology/product development; b) Technology and Business Management; MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS a) Successfully developed a patented speech compression system for CSIRO Telecommunications b) Designed Vodafone Australia 3G network through the 3G Network Architecture design team; c) Successfully built from end-to-end commercial embedded speech compression and identifier software system resulting in a provisional patent for CSIRO and licensed for use on the Internet. Was awarded certificate of achievement; d) Successfully developed feature capture and test methodology for commercial software product implementing face recognition, PC Check, Door Access Check and Mobile Person tracking for industry partners including Siemens, department of immigration and the Greek government; e) Successfully managed diverse technologies and software development teams in four cities and eight organisations with five deployed technologies with contributions to international standards; f) Successfully created system prototype of a FMCW radar for La Trobe University with full instrumentation, signal acquisition, analysis, imaging g) Successfully designed and built Sensor Networks for Tracking of Personnel, Thales ARC Linkage Grant Project, 2007 h) Successfully Designed and created DIETY (Digital Identity Management System) 2007 Teaching a) Emerging Internetworking Protocols b) Authentication and Systems Security c) Advanced Wireless Communications d) Signal Processing e) Assembly Language Programming and Embedded Systems International Training Workshops a) Internet and IP communications b) Voice Over IP (VoIP) on contract (IIR Training and ICTe Africa 2006, 2007, 2008) c) Mobile Communicatiion Networks (GSM, UMTS, GPRS, HSDPA and Wireless LAN) d) Interconnectivity regulation, pricing and practice e) National Telecommunication Regulatory policy advice and training f) ICT National Policies (Sole International Expert on creating Nigeria’s National ICT Policy in 2000 – NITDA) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE CURRENT ROLES A) FRENCH SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE IN ELECTRONICS (F’SATIE) & Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa Alcatel Professor of Telecommunications – Responsible for Alcatel Centre for Content Development at F’SATIE B) DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN CAPE, CAPE TOWN 2002 - 2008 Professor (Adjunct.) – Computer Software engineering and telecommunications networks; Postgraduate education and research in digital identity management systems and trust, Next Generation Networks, embedded systems, mobile communications and applications for third generation cellular networks; Responsible for Telecommunication Networks and Embedded Computing and Key Member of Centre of Excellence in IP Computing C) UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY, (FACULTY OF ENGINEERING, (TELECOMMUNICATIONS) 2003 - CURRENT • Program Head for Engineering Practice Program/Capstone – Faculty of Engineering at UTS (Responsible for Administration of Industry-based Internships of over 3000 Engineering Students in Computer Software, Computer Systems Engineering, Telecommunications, Mechatronics, Civil and Electrical Engineering and Nano Technology; • Responsible for Subject development, Coordination and Teaching of Masters Degree by Course Work in o Advanced Wireless Networks; o Emerging Internetworking Protocols; o Authentication and Systems Security; o IP Networks; • Responsible for PhD/MSc Research Assessment in ICT on behalf of the Information & Communications Group; Recent Research Grants and Awards AU$400, 000 Development of 4G wireless communication systems and wireless sensor networks 2006 NRF Grant Research Grant R523, 000 Research and Development of a Testbed of a Multi- band, Multiple standard Mobile Device 2004 ARC and Australian Defence Industry Linkage AU$360, 000 Design of Wireless sensor and communication networks with fixed and mobile nodes. 2004 University of Technology, Sydney Research Excellence Grant AU$29,997 Multi-Band and Multi-Standard Mobile Communication Hand Set 2003 Flextronics International Grant+Award AU$15, 000 Embedded Systems Lab 2002 ARC APAI scholarship / Vodafone 2 Awards AU$250, 000 Networks & computing 2002 National Research Fund Grant R243, 000.0 Cellular Networks D) VISITING SCHOLAR: CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY, ROCKHAMPTON, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA Invited to develop research collaboration in Telecommunications. E) MANAGING EDITOR: AFRICAN JOURNAL OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/ajict/ PREVIOUS ROLES HELD Vodafone Australia 2000 - 2003 Principal Engineer (R&D Management, Architecture and Emerging Technologies); Managed, resource and developed more than 20 technologies on an annual budget of over AU$4 million dollars across eight Organisations in five cities covering more than 30 software and technology developers. Key team member that designed high level architecture of Vodafone 3G core and radio access networks that for the first time accounted for evolving broadband technologies with backwards compatibility. Major Accomplishments In this Role a) Designed first high level architectural of Vodafone 3G core and radio access networks that for the first time looked into the future to encompass evolving broadband technologies and look back for compatibility; b) Managed, resourced the development of more than 15 technologies across 8 Organisations in four cities covering more than 30 software and technology developers; c) Budgeted, resourced and successfully negotiated contract agreements for development of new technologies and research across more than 15 projects, management of all R&D projects contracts/agreements and NDAs; d) Drafted, developed and activated over 20 contract agreements and NDAs within a period of two years including (Ericsson, Dillithium Networks, Fluffy Spider, UNSW, QUT, Nortel, Siemens, Lucent, University of Wollongong, La Trobe and Curtin Universities, University of Sydney and interWave); e) Saved the business more than $300,000 annually on R&D expenditure by creating first ever technology development laboratory. Developed the strategy and process for evaluating new technologies to budget. Established the process for technology evaluation, analysis and trend prediction and developing business case, business plans. Experienced strong customer facing exposure; f) Developed the first strategies for translating R&D outcomes into new products and aligning R&D to business goals. Developed business cases on new technologies and assessed their readiness of new technologies for product deployment. Key recent results creating industry leadership and first to market in the deployment of 3G wireless broadband technologies for the business include; g) ArrayCom and IpWireless (UMTS TDD networks), interWave (VoIP solution), Emblaze technologies (multimedia platform and streaming applications). Technologies discovered and being trialed by Vodafone Australia and New Zealand, specifically include: h) i-Burst (broadband 3G network access system) from ArrayCom being trialed in Sydney i) ipWireless, UMTS-TDD network being trialed by Vodafone in New Zealand j) interWave GSM/GPRS IP bridge, targeted for trail by VFA k) Established for the first time a process for communicating information on new standards to the Organisation in terms of the weekly newsletter "this week on standards" and technology “watch briefs”. l) Spearheaded the development and capture of intellectual property rights (IPR) and developed products based on IPR for data transcoding, multimedia streaming and proxy servers for mobile IP m) Developed more than five mission critical technologies based on business strategies, with SMEs (eg., SS7 planning tool, data transcoding, multimedia proxy servers), industry partners and universities. n) Managed external R&D teams distributed across eight organisations and Australian capital cities (Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane). Planned, technical capability and training requirements for mission critical technologies and laid foundations for the development and delivery of competency through targeted research and development, resource and risk analysis. Select projects developed and managed within the last nine months include: o) Optimization of UMTS Networks - New Ph.D Project with UWC – current p) Telecommunication networks technology trends and styles and their impacts to the lifestyles of Australian Families – collaboration between Vodafone, Ericsson - current q) Thirteen (13) projects (Wireless communication networks/Applications) - current with the ATCRC with Vodafone as a major industry participant r) “Evaluation of Speech Recognition Engines and Platforms” (Lucent, HeyAnita and Phillips). Results applied for voice applications s) “Media Transcoding” with Dillithium Networks (Redfern, Sydney). A company with established record in delivering media transcoding systems. Results licensed to Siemens and Cisco t) “One-time Authentication on IP-based Mobile Phones” (Queensland University of Technology). Project completed to record time. Results yet to be deployed u) “Quality of Service in 3G Wireless Systems with Hybrid Networks” - a Vodafone/UNSW joint APAI scholarship, worth $120,000 over a period of three years – current v) Provision of Arbitrary Complex Services on the Mobile Internet - a second Vodafone/UNSW-joint APAI scholarship, worth $120,000 over a period of three years – current Managed and developed technical standards Developed international standards and contribution to standards in telecommunications such as ITU/3GPP/ETSI/SA leading to: a) Development of a central repository for common access and browsing of standards information b) A weekly newsletter on standards called ‘This week on standards c) Creating the process for acquiring standards documentation for the Organisation; d) Representing Vodafone Australia in the ACIF e) Designing, building, and management of Vodafone Australia technology evaluation laboratory Successfully managed vendor and customer relationship including Nortel Networks, Siemens, Nokia, Ericcson, Emblaze, interWave and IpWireless through successful joint long-term technology development program with Ericsson at the ATCRC worth more than $1.5 million over six years. Developed the technical/business case for trial of IpWireless and ArrayCom (iBurst) UMTS technologies in Australia and New Zealand. Established Emblaze in Vodafone Group on multimedia technologies. a) Researched, developed and delivered technology watch briefs to managers and rest of business, particularly on 3G radio networks, WLAN, air interfaces, UMTS TDD, VoIP, cdma2000; access and transport; and developed technologies, business analysis/plans on: b) UMTS and cdma2000 network business case and capabilities c) WLAN and UMTS-TDD networks d) Video Conferencing, VoIP and data services e) Business Opportunities in Media Transcoding Elected to Member of the core team for 3G network design and business case at Vodafone Australia responsible for high level architectural design for Vodafone Australia UMTS network CSIRO Telecommunications (Senior Research Scientist) 1993 - 2000 Industry focused commercial telecommunication software and systems development with research based on operating systems including Windows, NT4 (95/98), SunOs/UNIX and Linux. Conducted research and built software/hardware prototypes that implement. Major Accomplishments In this Role: Commercial Software Development, Product Development, Research and Testing: resulting in: a) Real-time speech compression for the Internet; microprocessor controlled speech acquisition, coding; Resulted to a provisional patent awarded to CSIRO; received a certificate of achievement b) Video surveillance and tracking systems; c) Face Recognition System (for Siemens in Egypt and is used by the Australian department of immigration as well for passport recognition); d) Face-In-A-Crowd (developed for a security firm in Greece); e) PC-Check (an authentication system based on PC) - developed for an Australian security firm; f) Prototypes for biometrics authenticators, specifically, palm prints, face and voice; g) Innovative new model for smart homes using agent systems; h) Speaker identifier using MFCC, speech compression (LD-CELP and ADPCM); i) Assembly-based entropy coders based on Arithmetic coding (the source code was requested by Texas Instruments); j) With limited time and budget constraints, strict guidelines and specifications successfully developed commercial software. Applied software modeling tools (UML, Visual Source Safe), full SDLC with testing, documentation and peer review of core technical solutions; k) Researched and developed new algorithms that implement audio and video streaming systems, compression and coding and Internet interfaces; applications for image retrieval systems, video, speaker identifier, multimedia and biometrics systems. l) Programming and Software Design: Implemented the graphical user interface (GUI), testing and evaluation of outcomes for commercial software. Developed expertise in, object oriented programming, microprocessors (micro-controllers) and embedded software development; including Java, Visual C++, C, HTML, JavaScript, Assembly Matlab and Basic; The software systems developed during this period include: m) Testing: Developed from scratch, test methodologies, strategies and benchmarks for video surveillance software systems, tracking of moving objects in video, and best practices for establishing the comparative qualities of commercial speech compression software systems. n) Successfully led the test team that progressed the prototype for the face recognition system to product stage. Wrote the users' manual. Prepared the technical reports and enhancement requirements o) Successfully established MOS testing, comparison and noise performance of speech compression standards including ADPCM, LD-CELP and G.723.1 p) Team Leadership: Successfully led the team that designed the methodology for software and hardware testing; evaluating the market suitability and readiness of developed software systems; resulting in successful testing of: q) Speech compression for the Internet r) Door-Check and PC-Check systems s) Face-In-A-Crowd system t) Speaker Identifier system University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Nigeria 1982 - 1989 a) Head of Department of Electronic Engineering (1988/89); b) Developed new courses and curriculum in telecommunication and computing; c) Managed and administered the department of over 8 staff members and 500 students; d) Taught computer programming, digital communication and developed associated laboratory experiments and exercises; e) Supervised honours and postgraduate students in electronic communications; 8 PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION AND MEMBERSHIPS a) Who Is Who In Engineering and Science b) Marquis Who Is Who In The World c) Reviewer of technical journals (IEEE Circuits and Systems; IEEE Signal Processing; Journal of Real-time imaging; IEE Communications; International Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computing; Journal of Systems and Network Management (Springer); Wireless Personal Communications (Springer, Netherlands) d) Current Examiner of numerous PhD/MSc thesis; e) Received Research Excellence Grant from the University of Technology Sydney in 2004 – is one of only 9 given in 2004. |