Dr Aristide Akem
speaker
Dr. Aristide Akem is a Lecturer in Computer Science within the Cyberphysical Systems Group. Prior to joining Southampton, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Computing Infrastructure Group at the University of Oxford. His research spans machine learning, network programming, and mobile networking, with applications in network security, IoT, and energy. He earned his PhD from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and IMDEA Networks Institute, following a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University Africa in Rwanda, and a Master’s in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Yaounde I in Cameroon.
Mouhamadou Lamine
speaker
Mouhamadou Lamine Ba is an assistant professor at Alioune Diop University of Bambey (UADB). He obtained his PhD in Computer Science and Telecom Networks at ParisTech, the first French School of Engineering in Telecommunications (March, 2015). He became a postdoctoral researcher at Telecom Paris from April to October 2015, then at the IT Research Institute of Doha (QCRI) . He is a member of the interdisciplinary research group IMTICE (Medical Informatics and ICT) of the Training and Research Unit of Applied Sciences, Information and Communication Technologies (SATIC). He is also responsible for research and innovation at IFOAD-UADB (Institut de Formation à Distance de l’Université de Bambey). Lamine Ba has been involved in several local and international research projects (DataRing, DROD, CCIPX, TélécomParis Big Data Chair, SIEMENS-2) and scientific reading committees (Information Science, BigComp, EDBT, iiWAS, CNRIA, InterSOL, SNAM, etc.)
Jean Louis Fendji
speaker
Jean Louis Fendji holds a Ph.D. from the University of Bremen in Germany since 2015. His Ph.D. work was focused on how to turn community telecentres into community networks in Cameroon. He is currently working with organisations such as GIZ on the deployment of community networks and the development of digital services for rural communities (mainly in education and agriculture, using Artificial Intelligence). He has led several international projects, including an APC-funded project on the development of a proposed regulatory framework for community networks in francophone countries in Africa.
He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Ngaoundere and the Research Director on Innovative Technologies at AfroLeadership. Recently, he has been awarded the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study fellowship (2024-2026).
Prof. Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Gueye
organizer
Since 2010, Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba GUEYE is university lecturer and researcher at Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD). In 2006, he received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University Pierre et Marie Curie – Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France. Between 2007 and 2010, he was Research Assistant (PostDoc position) at the Université de Liège (Belgium), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. He was a Visiting Scientist at UQÀM (Montréal, Canada) during the 2011/12 academic year, the head of Computer Science Laboratory between 2014 and 2021, general chair of IEEE MNE3SD 2022, and involved in several TCP journals and conferences. He is currently full professor with Université Cheikh Anta Diop, the head of Computer Science department, and the president of ASCII organization. His research interests are in Internet measurements, measurement-based geolocation, and Wireless Sensors Networks (WSN), with recent focus on green cloud computing and network virtualization. In WSN, he promotes Sensor-based epidemiology detection. Besides, improving quality life in rural area has been taking a major role in our research -such as Pastoral mobility, livestock transhumance in Sahel, management of water point by using Internet of things.