Francis Enejo Idachaba is currently a Professor of Communication Engineering at Covenant University and Director of the Covenant University Open and Distance Learning Unit. He also served as the immediate past Director of Academic Planning at the University for the 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 Academic sessions. Before that, he served as Head of the department of Electrical and Information Engineering for the 2014/15 and 2015/16 Academic sessions.
He obtained his PhD in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from University of Benin in Nigeria in 2009 and has within the last 13 years served as a Visiting Research Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US and a Research Advisor with Shell Petroleum Development Company in Nigeria between 2010 and 2012. He has had over 20 years academic experience with over 120 publications in journals, conferences proceedings, books, and articles. He is a recipient of 8 patents awarded in Nigeria for his products.
His key contributions span the areas of rural mobile communication design and development, telecommunication spectrum monitoring and 5G communication policy development to pipeline leak/ intruder detection and national security. During his fellowship with Shell, he served as the Project Engineer for several technology trials for projects including remote wellhead automation, pipeline leak and intruder detection among other projects. He was awarded patents for three pipeline leak containment tools and is currently awaiting the release of other patents already applied for.
His current research interest spans the areas of Internet of things, 5G communication, Ehealth and Artificial Intelligence. He recently developed an application for linking rural farmers with crop experts around the globe in real time. He is also involved in spectrum monitoring research and 5G communications technology. He was a part of the team that developed the 5G policy for Nigeria.
Professor Idachaba has served and continues to serve as keynote speaker at several events where he proffers solutions to key national challenges. He also serves as a reviewer of several PhD thesis from Universities both in Nigeria and abroad.
Professor Idachaba is a recipient of the MIT/Google/Total funded Empower the Teachers Fellowship, the SPE faculty Enhancement Travels grants and the Shell Sabbatical Fellowship. He is also a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, The Nigerian Society of Engineers and a COREN Registered Engineer in Nigeria
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