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Williams Nwadiugwu

Williams Nwadiugwu

Assistant Professor, Bharti School of Engineering & Computat
Bharti School of Engineering and Computation
Science, Engineering and Architecture
Fraser Building (FA-378)

Biography

Williams Paul Nwadiugwu is an Assistant Professor at Laurentian University's School of Engineering and Computation Science, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. He holds a PhD degree in IT Convergence Engineering from the Kumoh National Institute of Technology (KIT), Gyeongbuk, South Korea. Upon graduation he was appointed Posdoc Fellow and later; Research Associate Professor & Lecturer (sessional) with the Convergence Research Center and School of Electronics Engineering, KIT, respectively. He later worked as a Senior Researcher & Lecturer (guest) with the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, Toronto, Metropolitan University, Ontario, Canada. He has authored over 40 peer-reviewed scientific journals & international conferences/workshops till-date, and has mentored numerous Masters/PhD candidates. Williams was one of the recipients of the Brain Korea (MSIT/NRF) Doctoral scholarship grant. He is a registered member of the IEEE Board and regularly serves as Journal Reviewer for IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters, IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurements, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer Nature), International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing Inderscience, and Mathematical Problems in Engineering journal.

Education

Kumoh National Institute of Technology, South Korea - PhD, Information Technology Convergence Engineering (Electronics Engineering honors).
Kumoh National Institute of Technology, South Korea - MEng(integrated), Information Technology Convergence Engineering (Electronics Engineering honors).
Jain University, India - Master of Science in Information Technology.
Bangalore University, India - Bachelor of Computer Science Applications.
Yaba College of Technology, Nigeria - Advance Diploma in Mechanical Engineering.

Academic Appointments

Laurentian University, Canada - Assistant Professor.
Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada - [Senior Researcher || Postdoctoral Fellow || Lecturer (Guest)].
Kumoh National Institute of Technology, South Korea - [Research Associate Professor || Postdoctoral Fellow || Teaching Faculty (Sessional)].
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, - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and IEEE Access journals.
External Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Instrumentations and Measurements.
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.

On The Web

Web Platforms:

Research

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.

Awards

  • Brain Korea (MSIT/NRF) Doctoral scholarship grant (2016-2020)
  • India global education scholarship (2010-2013) 
  • USA Who’s-Who-in-Nigerian diaspora celebrity magazine (2020).
  • Co-Author, Best Paper Award 2019 Korean Institutes of Communications & Information Sciences (KICs) Winter Conference.

Teaching

Laurentian University, Canada - Fall (2024) - Spring (2025).

  • COSC-2947EL-01: Object Oriented Programming C++ (2024F).
  • CPSC-5207EL-01: Software Development Life Cycle (2024F).
  • COSC-3807EL-01: Computer Networks (2024W).
  • CPSC 5207EL-03: Internet of Things (2024W/S).
  • CPSC 5207EL-01 Embedded Systems (2024S).

Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada (Fall 2023).

  • CPS109 – Computer Science I (Lecturer/Instructor - Guest).

Kumoh National Institute of Technology, South Korea (2019 - 2020).

  • IGG-01-100: Industrial and Communications Systems (Lecturer/Faculty - Sessional).
  • IGG-01-005: Real-time System (GTA)

Publications

[SELECT JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS]

  • 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]