Prof. Ikechukwu Ekene Onyenwe
Prof. Ikechukwu Ekene Onyenwe is a PROFESSOR in COMPUTER SCIENCE Department, Faculty Of Physical Sciences in Nnamdi Azikiwe University
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Staff Profile
Ikechukwu Ekene Onyenwe (PhD) is a Professor/Researcher/Developer in Computer Science at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. He also taught Computational Linguistic in the department of Linguistics in the past as a Senior Lecturer.
He did his PhD at The University of Sheffield, the United Kingdom sponsored by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, Nigeria. His research focused broadly on the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics (CL), Machine Learning (ML), Data Science, Cyber Security and Web/Internet Computing. He has collaborated actively with international researchers in several tasks, particularly on building a public benchmark in African languages with Facebook, detecting incitement of violence against women in online conversations with Nottingham Trent University, and data mining and Analysis of Amazon product reviews at Amazon project with the Computer Science Department of Sheffield University, United Kingdom.
Ikechukwu has won and participated in many research awards including the TETFund PhD scholarship award, grant awards from Facebook and BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. He has served and still serving in many professional committees/consultations. He is currently an Editorial Board member/Secretary/reviewer of the Journal of Basic Physical Sciences (JBPR), Science Journal of Faculty of Science, Ebonyi State University and International Journal on Natural Language Computing (IJNLC). He is a professional member of the Association for Computing Machinery, African Language Technology and Nigeria Computer Society.
Ikechukwu has delivered keynote paper presentations in conferences and other educational exercises. He was a key paper speaker in the School of Financial Studies, Federal Polytechnic Oko 2020 International e-Conference and a Guest Speaker at the 2020 Teachers Convention of Anglican Diocese on the Niger.
Ikechukwu’s academic publications are indexed in highly rated scholarly profiles such as Scopus, Google Scholar, Association of Computing Machine (ACM), Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), Microsoft Academic, Semantic Scholar, Researchgate, etc.
As an active researcher, Ikechukwu enjoyed publishing in international journals/conferences and travelling around the world and presenting his research outputs at international conferences. He is IT-savvy and enjoyed learning new good things each day.
Ikechukwu is a Christian, a husband and a father.
Personal Information
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Address: | Computer Science, Faculty Of Physical Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. |
Faculty/Unit: | FACULTY OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES |
Department/Sub-Unit: | COMPUTER SCIENCE |
Academic Qualifications
| Degrees / Basic Certificates | |
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| 1 | The University Of Sheffield, England, United Kingdom. (Doctor of Philosophy, May, 2017) April, 2013 to November, 2016 Ph.D. Computer Science |
| 2 | Nnamdi Azikiwe University. (Master Degree, August, 2008) January, 2007 to January, 2018 M.Sc. Computer Science |
| 3 | Nnamdi Azikiwe University. (Bachelor Degree, April, 2004) October, 1999 to April, 2004 B.Sc. Computer Science |
| 4 | Bishop Crowther Seminary, Awka. (SSCE, June, 1998) January, 1991 to January, 1998 SSLC Secondary School |
| 5 | Eziagulu Primary School, Ekwulobia. (FSLC, August, 1995) January, 1986 to January, 1991 FSLC Primary School |
Relevant/Working Experience
| 1 | Deputy Director (ICT), Quality Assurance Nnamdi Azikiwe University May, 2023 to Present |
| 2 | Chairman, Harvest Committee, Chapel of Redemption Nnamdi Azikiwe University August, 2022 to Present |
| 3 | Head of Department, Computer Science Department, Faculty of Physical Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University January, 2022 to Present |
| 4 | Researcher/Developer, Software Services, MICTU, Nnamdi Azikiwe University August, 2021 to Present |
| 5 | Senior Lecturer / Researcher, Computer Science, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria October, 2018 to Present |
| 6 | Senior Lecturer / Researcher, Linguistics Department, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria October, 2018 to Present |
| 7 | Microsoft Specialist Exam Expert, PET-Xi, United Kingdom December, 2017 to December, 2017 |
| 8 | Computer Science Teacher, Dinnington High School, United Kingdom December, 2017 to April, 2018 |
| 9 | Research Fellow, School Of Arts & Humanities, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom July, 2017 to May, 2018 |
| 10 | Cover Teaching, High Storr School, UK July, 2017 to July, 2017 |
| 11 | Computer Programmer, Computer Science Department, University Of Sheffield, United Kingdom April, 2017 to June, 2017 |
| 12 | Project Manager, Software Hut, Computer Science Department Of The University Of Sheffield, UK February, 2017 to May, 2017 |
| 13 | Computer Science Teacher, Eckington School, United Kingdom December, 2016 to May, 2017 |
| 14 | Chief Invigilator/Invigilator, University Of Sheffield International College, UK January, 2016 to January, 2018 |
| 15 | Lecturer I, Computer Science Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria. October, 2013 to October, 2018 |
| 16 | Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA), Computer Science Department Of The University Of Sheffield, United Kingdom September, 2013 to May, 2017 |
| 17 | Doctoral Research Student, Computer Science Of University Of Sheffield, UK April, 2013 to May, 2017 |
| 18 | Lecturer II, Computer Science Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria. June, 2010 to October, 2013 |
| 19 | Assistant Lecturer, Computer Science Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria. July, 2009 to June, 2010 |
| 20 | Computer Programmer II (Senior Staff), MICT Unit, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria. September, 2007 to July, 2009 |
Creative Output
| Books | |
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| 1 | Onyenwe Ikechukwu. (2007, April) Basic Computing And Microsoft Applications LAP Publishers, 47 Amawbia Street, Enugu, Nigeria |
| Journal Articles | |
| 1 | Onyenwe, I.E., Onyedinma, E.G. (2024, April), "The State of Natural Language Processing in Africa: An Overview", International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer and Communication Engineering |
| 2 | Onyedinma, E.G., Onyenwe, I.E.. (2024, April), "Digital Image Steganography: An Overview", International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer and Communication Engineering |
| 3 | Onyedinma, E.G, Onyenwe, I.E.. (2024, April), "Two-Tier Data Security Technique: LSB Image Steganography and Columnar Transposition Cipher", International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer and Communication Engineering |
| 4 | Ikechukwu E.Onyenwe, Ebele Onyedinma, Onyedika O.Ikechukwu- Onyenwe, Obinna Agbata, and Faustinah N. Tubo. (2024, February), "INTEGRATION OF LATEX FORMULA IN COMPUTER-BASED TEST APPLICATION FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES", International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering Survey (IJCSES), Vol.15, No. 1, February 2024 |
| 5 | J. S. Igwe, O. Christopher, I.E. Onyenwe , J. Ndunagu. (2024, January), "DEVELOPMENT OF SENSOR BASED INDIGENOUS SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING A SUITABLE WATER FOR A FISH POND CREATION AND MANAGEMENT", Journal of Xi’an Shiyou University, Natural Science Edition |
| 6 | Tubo, Faustinah Nemieboka, Ikechukwu E. Onyenwe, Doris C. Asogwa. (2023, September), "DEVELOPMENT OF AN NLP-DRIVEN COMPUTER-BASED TEST GUIDE FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED STUDENTS", International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering |
| 7 | Cheikh M. Bamba Dione1,†,∗, David Ifeoluwa Adelani2,†,∗, Peter Nabende3,† , Jesujoba O. Alabi4,† , Thapelo Sindane5 , Happy Buzaaba6† , Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad7,8† , Chris Chinenye Emezue9,10† , Perez Ogayo11† , Anuoluwapo Aremu† , Catherine Gitau† , Derguene Mbaye12† , Jonathan Mukiibi3† , Blessing Sibanda† , Bonaventure F. P. Dossou10,13,14† , Andiswa Bukula15 , Rooweither Mabuya15 , Allahsera Auguste Tapo16† , Edwin Munkoh-Buabeng17† , Victoire Memdjokam Koagne† , Fatoumata Ouoba Kabore18† , Amelia Taylor19 , Godson Kalipe† , Tebogo Macucwa5 , Vukosi Marivate5,13† , Tajuddeen Gwadabe† , Elvis Tchiaze Mboning† , Ikechukwu Onyenwe20 , Gratien Atindogbe21 , Tolulope Anu Adelani† , Idris Akinade22 , Olanrewaju Samuel† , Marien Nahimana, Théogène Musabeyezu, Emile Niyomutabazi, Ester Chimhenga, Kudzai Gotosa, Patrick Mizha, Apelete Agbolo23 , Seydou Traore24 , Chinedu Uchechukwu20 , Aliyu Yusuf8 , Muhammad Abdullahi8 , Dietrich Klakow4. (2023, July), "MasakhaPOS: Part-of-Speech Tagging for Typologically Diverse African Languages", Association for Computational Linguistics |
| 8 | Onyedinma, E. G., Onyenwe, I. E.. (2023, November), "Image Restoration: A Comparative Analysis of Image De noising Using Different Spatial Filtering Techniques", INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LATEST TECHNOLOGY IN ENGINEERING, MANAGEMENT & APPLIED SCIENCE (IJLTEMAS) |
| 9 | Ikechukwu Onyenwe1, Samuel N.C. Nwagbo2, Ebele Onyedinma1, Onyedika Ikechukwu-Onyenwe1, Chidinma A. Nwafor3 and Obinna Agbata1. (2023, February), "LOCATION-BASED SENTIMENT ANALYSIS OF 2019 NIGERIA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION USING A VOTING ENSEMBLE APPROACH", International Journal on Natural Language Computing (IJNLC) Vol.12, No.1, February 2023 |
| 10 | Nwafor Emmanuel O., Ngozi Maryrose Umeh., Ikechukwu Ekene Onyenwe. (2022, November), "DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTELLIGENT SYSTEM FOR THE DETECTON OF CORONA VIRUS USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK", International Journal of Real-Time Application and Computing Systems (IJORTACS) |
| 11 | CHINEDU EMMANUEL MBONU, Chiamaka Ijeoma Chukwuneke, Roseline Uzoamaka Paul, Ignatius Ezeani, Ikechukwu Onyenwe. (2022, April), "IgboSum1500-Introducing the Igbo Text Summarization Dataset", 3rd Workshop on African Natural Language Processing |
| 12 | Aniegwu, G.E., Onyesolu, M.O., Onyenwe, I.E. and Ugoh, D. (2022, June), "A Web-Based Parent-Teacher Collaborative System for Monitoring Students’ Academic Performances in Nigerian Schools", Open Access Library Journal, Vol. 9, (Issue 6) |
| 13 | Kenechukwu Sylvanus Anigbogu, Hyacinth Chibueze Inyiama, Ikechukwu Onyenwe, Sylvanus Okwudili Anigbogu. (2022, September), "Driver behaviour model for healthy driving style using machine learning methods", World Journal of Advanced Engineering Technology and Sciences, Vol. 7, (Issue 1), pp 137-148 |
| 14 | Onyenwe Ikechukwu1, Onyedikachukwu Ikechukwu-Onyenwe1, Onyedinma Ebele1, Chidinma A. Nwafor2. (2022, April), "A Review on Part-of-Speech Technologies", International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering Survey (IJCSES), Vol.13, No.2, April 2022 |
| 15 | Ikechukwu Onyenwe, Stanley Ogbonna, Ebele Onyedimma, Onyedikachukwu Ikechukwu-Onyenwe, Chidinma Nwafor. (2022, June), "Developing Smart Web-Search Using RegEx", International Journal on Natural Language Computing (IJNLC) Vol.11, No.3, June 2022 |
| 16 | Ikechukwu Onyenwe, Ebele Onyedinma, Chidinma Nwafor, Obinna Agbata. (2021, August), "Developing Products Update-Alert System For E-Commerce Websites Users Using HTML Data And Web Scraping Technique", International Journal on Natural Language Computing (IJNLC), Vol. 10 |
| 17 | Obianuju N.L., Agwu N., Onyenwe I.. (2021, July), "Medium Resolution Satellite Image Classification System For Land Cover Mapping In Nigeria: A Multi-phase Deep Learning Approach", Springer, Cham, Vol. 284 |
| 18 | Nwafor, Chidimma, Onyenwe Ikechukwu. (2021, June), "An Automated Mulitple-choice Question Generation Using Natural Language Processing Techniques.", International Journal on Natural Language Computing (IJNLC), Vol. 10 |
| 19 | Ikechukwu Onyenwe, Samuel Nwagbo, Njideka Mbeledogu, Ebele Onyedinma. (2020, July), "The Impact Of Political Party/candidate On The Election Results From A Sentiment Analysis Perspective Using #AnambraDecides2017 Tweets.", Soc. Netw. Anal. Min., Springer, Vol. 10 |
| 20 | Ignatius Ezeani, Paul Rayson, Ikechukwu Onyenwe, Chinedu Uchechukwu, Mark Hepple. (2020, April), "Igbo-English Machine Translation: An Evaluation Benchmark", ICLR 2020. Cornell University Computation and Language arXiv arXiv:2004.00648. |
| 21 | Onyedinma, E., Onyenwe, I., Inyiama, H.. (2019, July), "Performance Evaluation of Histogram Equalization and Fuzzy image Enhancement Techniques on Low Contrast Images.", International Journal of Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJCSSE), Vol. 8, (Issue 7) |
| 22 | Asogwa, D.C., Anigbogu, S.O., Onyenwe, I.E., Sani, F.A.. (2019, October), "Text Classification Using Hybrid Machine Learning Algorithms On Big Data", International Journal of Trend in Research and Development, Vol. 10 |
| 23 | Ikechukwu E. Onyenwe, Mark Hepple, Uchechukwu Chinedu, Ignatius Ezeani. (2019, August), "Toward An Effective Igbo Part-of-Speech Tagger", ACM Trans. Asian Low-Resour. Lang. Inf. Process, Vol. 18, (Issue 4), pp pp 1–26 |
| 24 | Onyenwe Ikechukwu, E., Onyedinma Ebele, G., Aniegwu Godwin, E.. (2019, December), "Bootstrapping Method For Developing Part-Of-Speech Tagged Corpus In Low Resource Languages Tagset-A Focus On An African Igbo", International Journal on Natural Language Computing (IJNLC), Vol. 8 |
| 25 | Ignatius Ezeani, Mark Hepple, Ikechukwu Onyenwe, Chioma Enemuo. (2018, September), "Multi-task Projected Embedding For Igbo", Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2018. Springer International, Vol. 11107 |
| 26 | Ignatius Ezeani, Ikechukwu Onyenwe, Mark Hepple. (2018, August), "Transferred Embeddings For Igbo Similarity, Analogy, And Diacritic Restoration", Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
| 27 | Ikechukwu E Onyenwe, Mark Hepple, Uchechukwu Chinedu, Ignatius Ezeani. (2018, February), "A Basic Language Resource Kit Implementation For The IgboNLP Project", ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, Vol. 17, (Issue 2) |
| 28 | Ezeani, Ignatius, Mark Hepple, Ikechukwu Onyenwe, Enemouh Chioma. (2018, June), "Igbo Diacritic Restoration Using Embedding Models", Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
| 29 | Ignatius Ezeani, Mark Hepple, Ikechukwu Onyenwe. (2017, April), "Lexical Disambiguation Of Igbo Using Diacritic Restoration", Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
| 30 | Chioma Enemouh, Mark Hepple, Ignatius Ezeani, Ikechukwu Onyenwe. (2017, August), "Morph-Infected Word Detection In Igbo Via Bitext", Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
| 31 | Onyenwe Ikechukwu E., Mark Hepple. (2016, September), "Predicting Morphologically-Complex Unknown Words In Igbo", Springer international -Verlag, Vol. 9924 |
| 32 | Ignatius Ezeani, Mark Hepple, Ikechukwu Onyenwe. (2016, September), "Automatic Restoration Of Diacritics For Igbo Language", Springer international -Verlag, Vol. 9924 |
| 33 | Onyenwe Ikechukwu, Mark Hepple, Chinedu Uchechukwu. (2016, July), "Improving Accuracy Of Igbo Corpus Annotation Using Morphological Reconstruction And Transformation-Based Learning", ATALA/AFCP |
| 34 | Onyenwe Ikechukwu, Mark Hepple, Chinedu Uchechukwu, Ignatius Ezeani. (2015, September), "Use Of Transformation-Based Learning In Annotation Pipeline Of Igbo, An African Language", Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
| 35 | Onyenwe Ikechukwu E., Chinedu Uchechukwu, Mark Hepple. (2014, August), "Part-of-speech Tagset And Corpus Development For Igbo, An African", Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
| 36 | M.O. Onyesolu, I.E. Onyenwe, D. Edebeatu. (2011, June), "Using Multi Server Queing Model To Improve Service Delivery", Journal of Basic Physical Research, Vol. 2 |
| Conference Papers | |
| 1 | Ikechukwu E.Onyenwe. (2024, April), "LEVERAGING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DATA ANALYTICS FOR SUSTAINABLE", |
| 2 | Ikechukwu E.Onyenwe. (2023, December), "Technological and scientific Advancement in Developing Countries: The Role of Physical Sciences", |
| 3 | Ikechukwu E.Onyenwe. (2022, September), "Sentiment Analysis (SA): Tool for Measuring Customer’s Satisfaction in POST COVID-19 business ERA", |
| 4 | IKECHUKWU E. ONYENWE. (2020, November), "Sentiment Analysis (SA): Tool For Measuring Customer’s Satisfaction In POST COVID-19 Business ERA (Key Paper Speaker)", School of Financial Studies, Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Key Paper Speaker at The IT response sub-theme workshop in International e-Conference on Alternative Business Models for Emerging Enterprises and Businesses In Post Covid-19 Era, Technical Session |
| 5 | IKECHUKWU E. ONYENWE. (2020, September), "The Anglican Teacher In The Post Covid-19 Era: The New Normal (Key Paper Speaker)", All Anglican Teachers Convention at All Saints Cathedral |
| 6 | David Wright, Ikechukwu E. Onyenwe. (2018, June), "Predatory Discourses And The Incitement Of Violence Against Women In An Online Discussion Forum", The 9th Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Conference Language, Communities & Mobility, University of Malta |
| 7 | Ikechukwu Onyenwe, Ignatius Ezeani, Chioma Enemouh. (2017, July), "Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) In Africa Via Language Technology", First postgraduate conference of All African Postgraduate Research Group (AAPoRG), Africa in the Era of Sustainable Growth. University of Sheffield |
| 8 | Onyenwe Ikechukwu E., Mark Hepple. (2016, September), "Predicting Morphologically-Complex Unknown Words In Igbo", Community-based Building of Language Resources (CBBLR) |
| Other Relevant Publications | |
| 1 | Onyenwe Ikechukwu E.. "Developing Natural Language Processing Tools Forn Low Resource Languages: A Focus On Igbo", (Others, 2014 May) A Technical Report for Ph.D. transfer review |
Academic Leadership Qualities
| Supervisions | |
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| 1 | "Development of an Automated CBTE Questions Generation using Natural Language Processing Techniques" (March, 2015 to July, 2021). Completed Masters project by Nwafor Chidinma Anulika 2014516004F |
| 2 | "DEVELOPMENT OF AN NLP-DRIVEN COMPUTER-BASED TEST GUIDE FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED STUDENTS" (2023). Completed Masters project by TUBO, FAUSTINAH NEMIEBOKA (020516003F) |
| Grants | |
| 1 | Awardee: "Igbo-English Machine Translation: An Evaluation Benchmark" (December, 2019 to November, 2020). Completed sponsored grant by Facebook |
| 2 | Collaborator: "The incitement of violent offences against women in online discussion forums" (April, 2017 to May, 2018). Completed sponsored grant by BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants for project entitled |
| 3 | Awardee: "Offer of Year 2011/2012 TETFUND Academic Staff Training and Development Support" (April, 2013 to July, 2017). Completed sponsored grant by Tertiary Education Trust Fund |
| 4 | Awardee: "Provision of annotation for the Named Entity Recognition and parts of Speech Datasets for African Languages project services to K4All" (September, 2021). Ongoing sponsored grant by Knowledge4All Foundation, University College London Department of Computer Science |
| Editorships | |
| 1 | Editor, "Faculty Of Physical Sciences Journal, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka" (March, 2023) |
| 2 | Editor, "International Journal On Natural Language Computing (IJNLC)" (April, 2019) |
| 3 | Editor, "Faculty Of Physical Sciences Journal, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka" (August, 2018) |
| Reviewerships | |
| 1 | Reviewer, "Science Journal Of Faculty Of Science, Ebonyi State University" (August, 2021) |
| 2 | Reviewer, "Journal Of Information Sciences, A SAGE Journal" (May, 2021) |
| Examinerships | |
| 1 | Chief Examiner, "External Examiner for Software Engineering" (November, 2023). Completed External Exam |
| 2 | Examiner, "COCES I.T. Report Exermination" (August, 2010). Completed Internal-External Exam |
| Accreditation Panel Memberships | |
| 1 | IT Support and Evaluation, "A 5-DAY TECHNICAL SUPPORT, EVALUATION AND LEARNING ANALYSIS FOR THE UBEC SMART SCHOOLS" (November, 2023) |
| Contributions to the University/Society | |
| 1 | Deputy Director (ICT), "Quality Assurance" (May, 2023) |
| 2 | Head of Department, "Computer Science Department Nnamdi Azikiwe University" (May, 2023) |
| 3 | Head of Department, "Computer Science Department, Faculty of Physical Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University" (January, 2022) |
| 4 | Member, "Faculty International Cooperation and Linkages Committee" (March, 2021) |
| 5 | Member, "Faculty Seminar Committee" (March, 2021) |
| 6 | Member, "Special Committee on Award Giving Service, Christ (ANG) Church Eziagulu Ekwulobia" (August, 2021) |
| 7 | Chairman, "Faculty of Physical Sciences Grants Committee" (August, 2021) |
| 8 | Member, "Faculty of Physical Sciences Career/Counselling Committe" (August, 2021) |
| 9 | Coordinator, "African International School for Computation, Modelling and Simulation (AISCMS)" (June, 2021) |
| 10 | Member, "Local Organizing Committee (LOC) consituted by the Vice-Chancellor for the African International School for Computation, Modelling and Simulation (AISCMS)" (June, 2021) |
| 11 | Researcher/Developer, "Research and development Unit of Sofftware Services, MICTU of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka" (August, 2021) |
| 12 | Member, "FPS Seminar Committee" (January, 2021) |
| 13 | Member, "Committee for Development of Result Processing System for the Faculty FPS" (December, 2019) |
| 14 | Member, "Appointment of Members of The Proposed Faculty of Computing Science Committee for Faculty of Physical Sciences" (February, 2019) |
| 15 | Senior Lecturer (at no extra cost), "Linguistics Department, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria" (August, 2019) |
| 16 | Member, "Seminar Secretariat Committee for Faculty of Physical Sciences" (August, 2018) |
| 17 | Eidtor/Secretary, "Editorial Board of Journal of Basic Physical Research" (August, 2018) |
| 18 | Developer, "NAU First Dynamic Web Application" (February, 2010) |
| 19 | Developer, "NAU First Dynamic Web Application- Congratulatory Message from FPS" (March, 2010) |
| 20 | Developer, "NAU First Dynamic Web Application - honorarium" (February, 2010) |
| 21 | Member, "Development of Software for Result Computation" (September, 2009) |
Membership of Professional/Relevant Bodies
| 1 | Full Member, "Computer Professionals" - 008110/2022 (member since 2022), https://www.cpn.gov.ng |
| 2 | Full Member, "Nigeria Computer Society (NCS)" - 11646 (member since 2020), https://www.ncs.org.ng |
| 3 | Professional Member, "Association for Computing Machinery" - 2961382 (member since 2017), https://dl.acm.org/profile/99659236558 |
| 4 | Full Member, "University of Sheffield Alumni" - 271092 (member since 2017), https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/alumni |
| 5 | Full Member, "African Language Technology" (member since 2016), https://www.aflat.org/users/onyenwe |
| 6 | Full Member, "Unizik Alumni Association" (member since 2004), https://unizik.edu.ng/alumni/ |
Relevant Events Attended
| Conferences | |
|---|---|
| 1 | "International Conference on Technological and Scientific Advancement in Developing Countries: The Role of Physical Sciences", (Faculty of Physical Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka), 30th November, 2023 to 2nd December, 2023; Unizik Business School Auditorium |
| 2 | "ACL’23 — the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics", (Association for Computational Linguistics), 9th July, 2023 to 14th July, 2023; The Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. |
| Workshops | |
| 1 | "Invitation as a Facilitator for the Orientation Programme of Teachers Internship Scheme", (Digital Resource Center (DRC) Universal Basic Education Board (UBE)), 25th January, 2024 to 28th January, 2024; Candellux Imperial Hotel and Suites. No. 5 Sir Anebo Okekenta Street Area 1, Abuja |
| 2 | "ICT and Financial Crimes Control for an Effective Economic, Social Security Growth of the Nation", (Committee on Financial Crimes of Federal House of Representatives), 13th December, 2023 to 14th December, 2023; National Centre for Women Development Abuja |
| 3 | "NOMINATION AS A FACILITATOR FOR A 5-DAY SCHOOL-BASED WORKSHOP AND TRAIN- THE-TRAINERS OF SMART SCHOOLS TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATORS AND ICT MANAGERS IN NIGERIA", (Digital Resource Center (DRC) Universal Basic Education Board (UBE)), 24th September, 2023 to 30th September, 2023; UBEC MODEL SMART SCHOOL in the State |
| 4 | "INVITATION TO A 4-DAY WORKSHOP ON TRAIN-THE-TRAINERS FACILITATORS OF SMART SCHOOLS IN NIGERIA", (Digital Resource Center (DRC) Universal Basic Education Board (UBE)), 10th September, 2023 to 13th September, 2023; Digital Resource Centre, Abuja |
| 5 | "INVITATION TO A 2-DAY TRAINING COURSE FOR PRINCIPALS OF 109 E-LEARNING CENTERS", (Digital Resource Center (DRC) Universal Basic Education Board (UBE)), 27th July, 2023 to 30th July, 2023; Digital Resource Centre, Abuja |
| 6 | "INVITATION TO A 5-DAY DIGITAL SKILL AND BLENDED LEARNING TRAINING FOR THE UBEC SMART SCHOOLS", (Digital Resource Center (DRC) Universal Basic Education Board (UBE)), 6th July, 2023 to 12th July, 2023; Digital Resource Centre, Abuja |
| 7 | "INVITATION TO A 2-DAY SKILL GAP ANALYSIS FOR THE UBEC SMART SCHOOLS", (Digital Resource Center (DRC) Universal Basic Education Board (UBE)), 2nd July, 2023 to 5th July, 2023; Digital Resource Centre, Abuja |
| 8 | "INVITATION TO A 5-DAY TRAINING COURSE FOR ICT MANAGERS, HEAD TEACHERS, HEADS OF ECCDE AND TEACHERS OF KWARA STATE SMART SCHOOLS", (Digital Resource Center (DRC) Universal Basic Education Board (UBE)), 1st May, 2023 to 6th May, 2023; Kwara State, Model SMART School, Ilorin |
| 9 | "INVITATION TO A 7-DAY TRAINING COURSE FOR PRINCIPALS, ICT MANAGERS, HEAD TEACHERS, HEADS OF ECCDE AND TEACHERS OF SELECTED SMART SCHOOLS", (Digital Resource Center (DRC) Universal Basic Education Board (UBE)), 25th March, 2023 to 1st April, 2023; Digital Resource Center, No. 1Herbert Macaulay Way, Abuja |
| 10 | "A 5-DAY TRAINING PROGRAMME ON SMART EDUCATION AND BLENDED LEARNING FOR THE TEACHERS OF 109 EFFECTIVE SCHOOLS", (Digital Resource Center (DRC) Universal Basic Education Board (UBE)), 3rd March, 2023 to 9th March, 2023; Digital Resource Center, Ahmadu Bello Way, Opposite NEXT Cash n’ Carry, Abuja |
| 11 | "5-DAY MASTER TRAINERS WORKSHOP ON BLENDED LEARNING AND ICT COURSES FOR THE SMART SCHOOLS ORGANISED BY DIGITAL RESOURCE CENTRE, UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION COMMISSION", (Digital Resource Center (DRC) Universal Basic Education Board (UBE)), 11th December, 2022 to 17th December, 2022; Tahir Guest Palace, Kano |
| 12 | "CRITIQUING WORKSHOP ON THE SUBJECTS DEVELOPED FOR PROFICIENCY TESTS FOR UBEC SMART SCHOOL TEACHERS", (Digital Resource Center (DRC) Universal Basic Education Board (UBE)), 29th November, 2022 to 2nd December, 2022; Newton Park Hotel, Zone 4, 8 Cape Town Street, Wuse, 904101, Abuja. |
| 13 | "INVITATION TO A 2-DAY ALPHA-TESTING ANALYSIS ON THE LMS AND SMS FOR THE UBEC ICT PERSONNEL OF 15 SMART SCHOOLS", (Digital Resource Center (DRC) Universal Basic Education Board (UBE)), 20th October, 2022 to 20th October, 2022; UBEC Model Smart School, Lafia, Nasarawa State |
| 14 | "Anambra Tech Revamp: The Future of Tech in Anambra and the Role of All Stakeholders", (Anambra State ICT Agency), 12th October, 2022 to 12th October, 2022; Hilton Leisure Resort and Hotel, 41 Regina Caeli Road, Awka |
| 15 | "2022 IT Professional's Assembly", (CPN), 18th May, 2022 to 19th May, 2022; NAF Conference Center, Abuja |
| 16 | "3rd Workshop on African Natural Language Processing", (AfricaNLP), 29th April, 2022 to 29th April, 2022; https://iclr.cc/virtual/2022/workshop/4549 |
| Other Events | |
| 1 | "Conference Of The Nigerian Association Of Teachers Of German", (DAAD, German and NAU), 14th July, 2021 to 15th July, 2021; Faculty of Art, Nnamdi Azikiwe University |
| 2 | "Anglican Teachers Convention (Guest Speaker)", (Doicese on the Niger), 20th November, 2020 to 22nd November, 2020; All Saint Cathedral Onitsha. |
| 3 | "INTERNATIONAL E-CONFERENCE ON ALTERNATIVE BUSINESS MODELS FOR EMERGING ENTERPRISES AND BUSINESSES IN POST COVID-19 ERA (Key Paper Speaker)", (School of Financial Studies, Federal Polytechnic Oko), 28th September, 2020 to 30th September, 2020; Zoom |
| 4 | "Eighth International Conference On Learning Representations", (Yann LeCun - New York University & Facebook AI Research), 26th April, 2020 to 30th April, 2020; Formerly Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA |
| 5 | "1st Workshop On Sense, Concept And Entity Representations And Their Applications", (Association for Computational Linguistics), 3rd April, 2017 to 4th April, 2017; Valencia, Spain |
| 6 | "19th International Conference On Text, Speech And Dialogue", (Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University Brno), 12th September, 2016 to 16th September, 2016; Brno, Czech Republic |
| 7 | "Traitement Automatique Des Langues Africaines (TALAf) (Automatic Processing Of African Languages) Workshop In JEP-TALN-RECITAL", (France Inalco), 4th July, 2016 to 8th July, 2016; Paris |
| 8 | "Joint Workshop On Language Technology For Closely Related Languages, Varieties And Dialects (LT4CloseLang 2-VarDial 2)", (Research Group in CL, University of Wolverhampton, UK LMD, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, BAS, BG), 5th September, 2015 to 11th September, 2015; Hissar, Bulgaria |
| 9 | "8th Linguistic Annotation Workshop", (COLING'14), 23rd August, 2014 to 24th August, 2014; Dublin, Ireland |