My long term career goal is to be a researcher, consultant, and entrepreneur in the IT sector. Am also passionate about knowledge dissemination, as such I considered graduate study a necessary step towards attaining my career goals.

I obtained a Bachelor of Engineering (B. Eng.) Degree from the department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering of the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria in 2008; Masters of Science (MSc.), Software Engineering in 2012 from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , University of Bradford, United Kingdom.

Am currently a 3rd Year PhD Student and a Commonwealth Scholar in the Artificial Intelligence Research Group at the University of Bradford under the supervision of Professor Daniel Neagu and Dr. Paul Trundle.

My current work is focused on the design and development of models and algorithms for crime intelligence in the cyberspace with applications in Pharmaceutical counterfeiting.

My current research interest include:

• Text Mining
• Sentiment Analysis
• Social Media and Network Analysis
• Machine Learning
• Big Data

My detailed academic work is available here.