Ekpe Okorafor

Ekpe Okorafor, Ph.D (born 1971) is a Nigerian American academic in computer science and technology. He is an expert in big data and analytics.

Ekpe Apia Okorafor
Born (1971-09-26) 26 September 1971
NationalityNigerian, American
OccupationProfessor, technology consulting
Years active2001–present
Known forAccenture, African University of Science & Technology, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Radicube Technologies

Education

Okorafor holds a Ph.D. and a Master of Science degree, both in Computer Engineering, from Texas A & M University. He also holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronic & Computer Engineering from University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

Career

Okorafor is a deep subject matter expert and principal in Accenture Digital, providing thought leadership.

In 2010, he established the High Performance Computing Centers for Excellence in Africa (Nigeria and Ethiopia) that focuses on leveraging massively parallel computing platforms to solve regional problems through simulation and modeling funded by the Nelson Mandela Institution Research grant.

He is a visiting professor in Computer Science at the African University of Science & Technology Abuja[1][2] and the Addis Ababa University. He has been a visiting scholar at the International Center for Theoretical Physics[3] in Trieste, Italy. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas.

He is the founder of Radicube Technologies, a research consulting firm.

Selected published works
  • Percolation routing in a three-dimensional multicomputer network topology using optical interconnection[4]
  • A Fault-Tolerant High Performance Cloud Strategy for Scientific Computing[5]
  • Integrated hybrid optical node using dynamic reconfiguration and routing algorithms for bimodal traffic[6]
  • Design and analysis of a 3-dimensional cluster multicomputer architecture using optical interconnection for petaFLOP computing[7]

Awards and recognition
  • Invited speaker, Computer Science Graduate Seminar[8]
  • Advisory Board for mHealth Africa Conference[9]
  • Speaker at AUST International Conference on Technology, October 2015[10]
  • Member, Research Data Alliance[11]

References
  1. "Dr Ekpe Okorafor — AUST". aust.edu.ng.
  2. "Nigeria: AUST Takes STEM to Schools". allafrica.com.
  3. "Speakers - Indico [Home] - ICTP". ictp.it.
  4. Okorafor, Ekpe; Lu, Mi (2005). "Percolation routing in a three-dimensional multicomputer network topology using optical interconnection". Journal of Optical Networking. 4 (3): 157–175. Bibcode:2005JON.....4..157O. doi:10.1364/JON.4.000157.
  5. Okorafor, Ekpe (2011). "A Fault-Tolerant High Performance Cloud Strategy for Scientific Computing". 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing Workshops and Phd Forum. ieeexplore.ieee.org. pp. 1525–1532. doi:10.1109/IPDPS.2011.306. ISBN 978-1-61284-425-1.
  6. Okorafor, Ekpe (2007). "Integrated hybrid optical node using dynamic reconfiguration and routing algorithms for bimodal traffic". Journal of Optical Networking. 6 (10): 1191–1209. Bibcode:2007JON.....6.1191O. doi:10.1364/JON.6.001191.
  7. Design and analysis of a 3-dimensional cluster multicomputer architecture using optical interconnection for petaFLOP computing. tamu.edu. Texas A&M University. 2007-04-25.
  8. "Open Graduate Seminar with Dr. Ekpe Okorafor". tamu.edu.
  9. "Anadach Group LLC :: e-Health Africa Conference Speakers". anadach.com.
  10. "Computer Science Speakers AUSTECH Abuja". aust.edu.ng. Archived from the original on 2016-08-18. Retrieved 2016-07-15.
  11. "Ekpe Okorafor". rd-alliance.org.
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