Dr ekpe okorafor
Dr. Ekpe Okorafor
Computer Science Department (Visiting Faculty)
Specializations:
Performance Computing & Network Architectures; Distributed Storage & Processing; Massively Parallel Processing &
Programming; Big Data, Predictive & Adaptive Analytics; Statistical Machine Learning; Performance Modeling and Analysis;
Fault-tolerant Systems; Information Assurance and Cybersecurity.
Ekpe Okorafor
B.Sc. Electronic Engr. (UNN), M.Sc. Comp. Eng. (Texas A&M),
Ph.D. Comp. Eng. (Texas A&M)
Courses (Being taught at AUST):
Operating Systems
Computer Networks
High Performance Computing
Introduction to Programming
Dr Ekpe Okorafor Publications
Ekpe Okorafor & Ti Amu, Adaptable Kafka Implementation on a Lambda Architecture, Big Data Series Accenture Digital, 2016.
Ekpe Okorafor & Ti Amu, Implementing STORM in a Stateless Complex Event Processing Algorithm, Big Data Series Accenture Digital, 2016.
Ekpe Okorafor, Predictive Adaptive Response (PAR) Analytics for the Enterprise Using Data Decisioning Methodology, Proceedings of FY15 NA-LA Technology Architecture Workshop, March 25 - 27, 2015 at the Q Center in St. Charles, Illinois:
Ekpe Okorafor & Thomas Glazier, Big Data Explained, Proceedings of FY15 NA-LA Technology Architecture Workshop, March 25 - 27, 2015 at the Q Center in St. Charles, Illinois:
Ekpe Okorafor, Data Integration and Data Architecture Impact on Emerging Data Platforms – An In-depth Analysis, Big data Series Accenture Digital, 2015.
Ekpe Okorafor, Massive Scale Computing in the Era of Big Data, Proceedings of the African University of Science & Technology Conference (AUSTECH), 2015.
Ekpe Okorafor, Hadoop For Scientific Computing, Proceedings of Advanced School on Parallel Programming and Parallel Architecture for High Performance Computing (HPC) & Training on Deploying and Operating a resource for HPC with Commodity Hardware, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, November 2014
Ekpe Okorafor, Hybrid Programming Models for Emerging High Performance Computing Systems, Proceedings of Advanced School on Parallel Programming and Parallel Architecture for High Performance Computing (HPC) & Training on Deploying and Operating a resource for HPC with Commodity Hardware, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, November 2014
Ekpe Okorafor & Mensah Kwabena Patrick, High Performance Cloud Computing: An Emerging Strategy for Scientific Computing, Advanced Computing: An International Journal (ACIJ), Vol.3, No.3, May 2012.
Ekpe Okorafor, A Fault-tolerant High Performance Cloud Strategy for Scientific Computing", IPDPSW '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing Workshops and PhD Forum, Pages 1525-1532, 2011.
Ekpe Okorafor, High Performance Cloud Computing: An Emerging Strategy for Scientific Computing, Proc. of International Conference on Grid Computing and Applications, GCA'10 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 12-15, 2010.
Ekpe Okorafor, Optical hybrid architecture and network control strategies, IEEE 5th Intl. Conf. on Broadband Communications, Networks and Systems (BROADNETS 2008), ID: 10.1109/BROADNETS.2008.4769016, ISDN: 978-1-4244-2391-0, pp266-273, London, UK, Sept. 2008.
Dr Ekpe Okorafor Notable Achievement
Big Data Academy Accenture Principal Faculty 2012 - 2016
ICTP Research Scholar 2014 & 2016
RIT Future Faculty Exploration Fellow 2007
University of Pretoria Future Faculty Fellow 2007
TAMU EE Scholarship Award 2004 – 2005
IBM Graduate Student Research Fellow 2003 - 2004
Best student paper entry award Journal of Optical Networks (JON) 2003
National Merit Award for Outstanding Academic Performance 1996
Shell National Scholarship Award for Academic Excellence 1992