Awards

• Award of Teaching Excellence, Pearson Institute of Higher Education - 2019.

• Academic Poster Award (Google AlphaGo), Deep Learning Indaba - 2018.

• PhD Postgraduate Merit Award, (WITS) 2017 — 2019

• CSIR–DST1 Inter-Programme Postgraduate Bursary, (CSIR) - 2017 — 2019.

• PSYBERGATE Computer Science Alumni Prize for the Best Student Tutor, WITS - 2016.

Research Grants

• Dahdaleh Institute Seed Grant of $5,000, York University, Toronto, Canada (2022) - For Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Research.

• Lacuna Project Research grant of $110,000, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, (2020 — 2021) - For the deployment of a labelled dataset for an IoT–based aquaponics fish pond water monitoring system.

• TETFund Institutional Based Research grant of $4,000, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, (2015 — 2016) - For the deployment of e-infrastructure for academic research in 2015/2016.

• UNESCO–HP Brain Gain Initiative (BGI) Grant of $12,000, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, (2012 — 2013) - For sustainability of the Grid infrastructure.

• UNESCO-HP Brain Gain Initiative (BGI) Grant of $10,000, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, (2011) - To establish the first-ever Nigeria Grid Computing infrastructure at the University of Nigeria (The Lion Grid).