Dr. Olugbenga (‘Olu’) Oluwagbemi is a Computer Scientist and occupies a UK Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor equivalent in USA) position in Computing Science, in the Department of Computer Science, Middlesex University London, United Kingdom. He also currently holds a C2 NRF (National Research Foundation) rated established researcher ranking in South Africa. Prior assuming these positions, Dr. Oluwagbemi was an Associate Professor of Computer Science & IT in Sol Plaatje University, South Africa, where he led a task team to establish the Centre for Applied Data Science in the University, engaged in conducting research in Artificial Intelligence, Computational modelling, and Bioinformatics. He was an AfOx visiting postdoctoral researcher in the Big Data Institute of the University of Oxford, UK. He was also respectively an NRF Innovation postdoctoral researcher and a DAAD Research Associate in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stellenbosch University South Africa. He was also a Fulbright PhD research fellow in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, USA. He has over 16 years’ experience of teaching computer science courses/modules in different higher educational institutions.
Other information can be found on his personal website: https://olugbengaoluwagbemi.weebly.com
Qualifications
+ English
+ Yoruba
I have taught some computer science courses/modules in previous universities where I had worked, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Research Outputs
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dr_Olugbenga_Oluwagbemi
Research interests:
Dr Oluwagbemi's research interests are: Artificial intelligence, AI in biomedical data science, computational modelling in health, computer-aided diagnosis, computational health informatics, informatics in medicine, Information Technology in Health, bioinformatics (computational genomics), machine learning, and the application of computational methods to solving problems caused by infectious and non-communicable diseases.
Dr Oluwagbemi welcomes inquiries from all interested/aspiring postgraduate candidates via email as regards MSc, PhD and Postdoctoral research supervisions/co-supervisions related to Artificial intelligence, AI in biomedical data sciences, computational modelling in health, health informatics, software development, and bioinformatics (computational genomics).
Interested/aspiring MSc/PhD candidates with personal fellowships, personal funding, and other numerous funding sources, searching for a supervisor/co-supervisor, are free to contact me to have preliminary discussions about their research interests. Such candidates must also bear in mind that they will be expected to fulfill the Department of Computer Science and Middlesex University's admission requirements.
Research Supervision
BSc Computer Science
Dr Oluwagbemi has successfully supervised 65 BSc Honours Computer Science and Management Information System candidates.
MSc Computer Science
Dr Oluwagbemi has successfully supervised 2 MSc Computer Science and eScience candidates, successfully assessed 8 MSc Computer Science thesis/dissertations, and successfully examined 3 MSc oral defence.
PhD
Dr Oluwagbemi has successfully examined the PhD proposal defence of a mathematical science candidate.
Title & Grant Number: Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dientst (DAAD) – German Academic Exchange Service Climate Research Alumni and Postdocs Africa (CLAP): 2-Year Personal DAAD Research Grant with Grant Award/Scholarship Reference Number: ST32/ 91769426)
Project Title: Investigating Climate Change effects on the Proliferation of Selected Diseases Using Computational Modelling
Years: 2020-2022
Role: Principal Investigator
Amount: = Above €35,000 Euro => Above £30,661.20
Title & Grant Number: National Research Foundation (2021- 2026). Incentive Funding for Rated Researchers (IPRR); NRF Grant No: 132240
Project Title: Applied Computational Science Research
Years: 2021
Role: Principal Investigator
Amount: = £2,888.19
Title & Grant Number: Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Personal Research Grant Award (2020-2021) for Research in University of Stellenbosch; Grant Award/ Scholarship Reference Number: OMT Ref. 21563/01)
Project Title: Investigating Climate Change effects on the Proliferation of Selected Diseases Using Computational Modelling
Years: 2020-2021
Role: Principal Investigator
Amount: = = £16,541.21
Title & Grant Number: TUM Global Incentive Fund (DFID, Germany);
Project Title: A Grant Proposal titled “Advancing Malaria to Real Time Forecast”
Years: 2020
Role: Co-Investigator
Amount: = €15,000 Euro = £12,727.08
Title & Grant Number: 2019) National Research Foundation (NRF), Travel, Training and Conference Grants: Scholarship-and-Fellowship-holders’ Grant Award with Reference/Award Number: TGSF190222420486
Project Title/purpose: Travel, Training and Conference Grants: Scholarship-and-Fellowship-holders’ Grant Award
Years: 2019
Role: Principal Investigator
Amount: = £2,063.18
Title & Grant Number: University of Oxford African-Oxford Initiative (AfOx) Collaborative Research Grant (2019) With Grant Award Number: AfiOX-136
Project Title: Multi-modelling of malaria control and elimination
Years: 2019
Role: Principal Investigator
Amount: = £4,738
Title & Grant Number: DST / NRF Innovation Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant Award (2018); Reference: SFP170529234304; Grant Award Number: UID: 111988).
Project Title: Agent-Based Computational Models and indigenous multi-lingual informatics system for HIV control in South Africa
Years: 2018-2020
Role: Principal Investigator
Amount: = = £35,283.28
Title & Grant Number: H3ABIONET/ H3Africa International Research Grant - National Institute of Health/ Wellcome Trust, United States of America. H3ABioNet is funded by National Institute of Health (NIH) Common Fund Award / National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) with Grant Number U41HG006941 (2013-2018);
Project Title/purpose: Grant towards Capacity development in bioinformatics research in Africa
Years: 2013 -2018
Role: Co-Investigator
Amount: = = £243,712.76
Title & Grant Number: The Fulbright Fellowship Research Grant Award based on a PhD Fellowship (Status: Successful – Grant Number: 15101137);
Project Title: proposal titled “Parasite development in the Anopheles as a Target for Malaria Control and Eradication: A Bioinformatics Approach”, submitted towards the Fellowship Research Grant Award.
Years: 2010 - 2011
Role: Principal Investigator
Amount: = over £84 534.43
Title & Grant Number: An International Advanced Course Workshop Travel Grant. University of Florida International Clinics on Infectious Diseases, Dynamics and Data (ICI3D) Program which is supported by the National Institute of General Medical Science of the U.S. National Institutes of Health under Award number R25GM102149.
Project Title: “TrypanoSpEx: Trypanosomiasis Spatially-Explicit Computational Model towards eradicating sleeping sickness”
Years: 2015
Role: Presenter of poster
Amount: = == £1,378.44
Chair, led Task team/Committee to the School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, University of Stellenbosch, Western Cape Province, for a 3-day Research Visit (October 25th – October 27th, 2021), to gain knowledge and experience towards establishing Center for Applied Data Sciences (CADS).
Program Committee Member, The 19th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society (I3E2020), Skukuza, South Africa. 6th - 8th, April, 2020.
