Johnson I Agbinya

Prof Johnson I. Agbinya obtained PhD in microwave radar systems from La Trobe University, Melbourne Australia, MSc (Research) in electronic control from the University of Strathclyde Glasgow Scotland and BSc in Electronic/Electrical Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ife Nigeria. He is currently Head, School of Information Technology and Engineering at Melbourne Institute of Technology (MIT), Australia. He was Senior Research Scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific Research...See more

Prof Johnson I. Agbinya obtained PhD in microwave radar systems from La Trobe University, Melbourne Australia, MSc (Research) in electronic control from the University of Strathclyde Glasgow Scotland and BSc in Electronic/Electrical Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ife Nigeria. He is currently Head, School of Information Technology and Engineering at Melbourne Institute of Technology (MIT), Australia. He was Senior Research Scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific Research Organ- isation (CSIRO) for nearly a decade before joining Vodafone Australia as Research Manager where he contributed to the design of its 3G network. He subsequently joined the University of Technology as Senior lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering and IT from where he moved back to La Trobe Uni- versity as Associate Professor. He is currently a full Professor of Engineering at Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. Prof Agbinya's service to humanity is focused on training emerging African Scientists, lecturers and technocrats through a number of African countries including Sudan where he is a Research Professor at the Sudan University of Science and Technology in Khartoum, Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology Arusha Tanzania as an Adjunct Professor until 2018 and Tshwane University of Technology Pretoria South Africa as Adjunct Professor in ICT with a PhD. He was Professor Extraordinaire in Computer Science at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town and Extraordinary Professor at the University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg. Prof Agbinya is a member of Pan African Australasian Diaspora Network (PAADN), member of the Nigerian Society of Engineering and Fellow of African Scientific Institute (ASI). He has published extensively including ten mobile communication, sensor and data analytics textbooks and over three hundred and fifty journals and conference articles. His technical expertise is in the areas of Mobile Com- munications, electronic remote sensing, signal processing, wireless power transfer, Internet of Things, biometrics, electrical energy and machine to machine communications and artificial intelligence. He is the founder of the annual conferences IB2COM and African conference called Pan African Conference on Science, Computing and Telecommunication (PACT). He also founded the African Journal of Information and Communication Technology (AJICT). He is currently on the editorial boards of several international journals in ICT and sensors, and editorial consultant at River Publishers Denmark. See less