Dr ekpe okorafor

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) 

eokorafor@aust.edu.ng    

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