Williams Nwadiugwu

Williams is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering and Computational Science at Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario. He holds a PhD in IT (Electronics Convergence) Engineering from Kumoh National Institute of Technology (KIT), South Korea.

Following his PhD, he served at KIT as a Postdoctoral Fellow, Teaching Faculty, and Research Associate Professor within the School of Electronic Engineering and the ICT Convergence Research Center. He later held roles at Toronto Metropolitan University's Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science (FEAS), and Faculty of Science (Dept. of Computer Science) as a Senior Researcher, Postdoctoral Fellow, and Lecturer (invited).

He has authored over 40 peer-reviewed publications and mentored students across all academic levels. He is a recipient of the Brain Korea (MSIT/NRF) Doctoral Scholarship and the India Global Education Grant, and is a Senior Member of IEEE.

He currently directs the NeXNet Research Lab at Laurentian University and serves as a reviewer for leading IEEE journals, NSERC Alliance-Mitacs Accelerate Research Proposals and other reputable research publications.

• Kumoh National Institute of Technology - PhD, Information Technology Convergence Engineering (Electronics Engineering honors).
• Kumoh National Institute of Technology - MEng (integrated), Information Technology Convergence Engineering (Electronics Engineering honors).
• Jain University - Master of Science in Information Technology (MSIT).
• Bangalore University - Bachelor of Computer Science Applications (BScA).
• Yaba College of Technology - Advanced Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (ND & HND).

• Laurentian University, Canada - Assistant Professor.
• Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada - [Senior Researcher || Postdoctoral Fellow || Lecturer (Guest)].
• Kumoh National Institute of Technology, South Korea - [Postdoctoral Fellow || Research Associate Professor || Teaching Faculty (Sessional)].
• External Reviewer, NSERC Alliance-Mitacs Accelerate Research Proposals for 2025.
• Chair, session - International Conference on ICT Convergence (ICTC 2020 and ICTC 2021).
• Chair, session - International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Information and Communication (ICAIIC 2021).
• External Reviewer, - Top IEEE Journals.
  1. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
  2. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems.
  3. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements.
  4. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
  5. IEEE Access journals.
• External Reviewer, (Springer Nature) - The Journal of Supercomputing.
• External Reviewer, International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing Inderscience, and Mathematical Problems in Engineering journal body.

Major research interests are in solving real-time reliability constraints for:

• Industrial internet of things (IIoT) based network systems.
• Avionic (UAV/MAV/Aircraft) systems control and network.
• Artificial intelligence (AI) frameworks || machine learning (ML) || deep learning (DL) networks.
• Software-defined network (SDN) systems.
• Wireless wide-band radio-frequency (RF) network protocols & communication.
• Robotics || mobility-sensor based network systems.

• Canada NSERC Alliance-Mitacs (Toronto Metropolitan University) Postdoctoral Grant (2023-2024).
• Brain Korea (MSIT/NRF) Doctoral Grant (2016-2020).
• India Global Education Grant (2010-2013).
• USA-based Who’s-Who Diaspora Celebrity Magazine (2020 Ed.).
• Best Paper Award 2019 (Co-Author) Korean Institute of Communications & Information Sciences (KICs) National (Winter) Conference.

[LIST OF SELECT JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS]

• A. Shaharyar Khwaja, N. Tri Vo, W. -P. Nwadiugwu, et al. "Digital Twin-Assisted Load-Balanced User Association and AoI-Aware Scheduling in IoT Networks," in IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 95888-95910, 2025, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3574291. [LINK]
• W. -P. Nwadiugwu, et al., “MAD-DDS: Memory-efficient Automatic Discovery Data Distribution Service for Large-Scale Distributed Control Networks” IET Communications, DOI:10.1049/cmu2.12645. May 2023. [LINK]
• W. -P. Nwadiugwu, W. Ejaz, M. Kaneko and A. Anpalagan, "Neural-Network-Assisted Packet Accelerators for Internet of Things Network Systems," in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 10, no. 17, pp. 15238-15251, Sept.1, 2023, doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2023.3265344. [LINK]
• W. -P. Nwadiugwu, et al, "Reconfigurable Physical Resource Block Using Novel – Beamforming Filter Circuit for LTE-Based Cell-Edge Terminals," in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 41, no. 11, pp. 5131-5135, Nov. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TCAD.2022.3146847. [LINK] 
• W. -P. Nwadiugwu, et al, "Compressed Time-Frequency Channel Beamforming Using Empirical MIMO-UWB RFs for Indoor Jobshop," in IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 5457-5469, 15 March15, 2022, doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2021.3117339. [LINK] 
• W. -P. Nwadiugwu, et al, "Precise-Point-Positioning Estimations for Multi-Dimensional Drones using Optimized Cubature-Extended Filters," in IEEE Access, September 2021 vol. 9, pp. 134369-134383, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3116058. [LINK] 
• S. -H. Kim, J. -W. Kim, W. -P. Nwadiugwu et al., "Deep Learning-based Robust Automatic Modulation Classification for Cognitive Radio Networks," in IEEE Access, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3091421. [LINK] 
• W. -P. Nwadiugwu, et al., "Novel MIMO-UWB based AG-UG-AG Routing with Microbit Sensors for WUSN," IEEE Sensors Letters, Feb. 2021, doi: 10.1109/LSENS.2021.3060826. [LINK]
• E.D. Tita, W. Nwadiugwu, et al., Real-time optimizations in energy profiles and end-to-end delay in WSN using two-hop information, Computer Communications (Jan. 2021), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2021.02.007. [LINK].
• Kevin Putra, Williams Paul Nwadiugwu, et al., "Dual Fieldbus Industrial IoT Networks using Edge Server Architecture," Elsevier Manufacturing Letters, April 2020. (doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mfglet.2020.04.006). [LINK]
• W. Nwadiugwu, et al, "Novel MA-VFBC Based Deployment of Obstacle-avoiding Scattered Sensors for Region-of-Interest Incidence Monitoring", IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 3065-3075, Jan. 2020. (DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2962254). [LINK]
• Williams-Paul Nwadiugwu, et al., "Ultrawideband Network Channel Models for Next Generation Wireless Avionic Systems", IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, May 2019. (DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2019.2914538). [LINK]
• Williams Paul Nwadiugwu, et al., "Real-time Energy-efficient Deployment of Mobile Sensors in Disaster-prone Locations", International Journal of Communication Networks & Distributed Systems, vol. 23, No. 3, pp.307-327, Feb. 2019. (DOI: 10.1504/IJCNDS.2019.10015202 ). [LINK]