University of Nigeria

Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering

Center of Excellence...
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Dr. Nnolim Uche Afam

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATION

University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK (Sept 2006 – July 2010)

PhD – Electronics Engineering

Thesis title: “FPGA architectures for logarithmic colour image processing”

University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK (Sept 2005 – Sept 2006)

MSc by Research – Electronics Engineering

Thesis title: “VHDL Implementation of Generalized Convergent Network (GCN) using FPGAs”

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, (UMN-TC), Minneapolis, MN, USA (Jan 1999 – May 2003)

BEE – Bachelor of Electrical/Electronic Engineering

EMPLOYMENT

Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria Lecturer July 2013 – present

  • Taught several undergraduate and postgraduate courses in electronic engineering.

  • Supervising several undergraduate electronic engineering student projects.

  • Performing assigned administrative and committee-based duties.

Electronics Development Institute (ELDI), Abba town, Anambra State, Nigeria National Youth Service Corps Assignment Aug 2011 – May 2012

  • Successfully designed and implemented a Biometric Attendance Register system using C# and VB.NET programming languages and SecuGen biometric fingerprint reader.

  • Initiated research geared towards Pure Sine Wave and Transformer-less Inverters in an effort to reduce the size and weight and increase the efficiency of the ones currently produced locally at ELDI.

  • Reviewed papers for publication (by invitation) and also provided advice on research topics relevant to my field proposed by Research and Development (R & D) departments.

  • Researched text and speech-based software translators for Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba languages to and from English.

  • Investigated low-cost implementations of alternative energy sources such as wind and solar energy systems.

  • Taught and advised I.T. students on relevant theory and topics related to projects.

Postgraduate Demonstrator/Teacher Sept 2005 – Sept 2009

  • Taught courses in Engineering and Computer Science.

PUBLICATIONS

  • Nnolim, U. A., Log hybrid architecture for tonal correction combined with modified unsharp masking filter algorithm for colour image enhancement, INTEGRATION, the VLSI journal, vol. 48, pp. 221-229, 2015.

  • Nnolim, U. A., A Fuzzy Homomorphic Algorithm For Image Enhancement, NIJOTECH, vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 156-163, January 2015.

  • Nnolim, U. A., Implementation of Spatial Domain Homomorphic Filtering on Embedded Mobile Devices, NIJOTECH, vol. 34, No. 2, April 2015.

  • Nnolim, U. A., Design and implementation of novel, fast, pipelined HSI2RGB and log-hybrid RGB2HSI colour converter architectures for image enhancement, Journal of Microprocessors and Microsystems, vol. 39, pp. 223-236, 2015.

  • Nnolim, U.A., Khola, S., Howells, W.G. and Maier, K. D. (2006), A VHDL based Implementation of Generalized Convergent Network using Field Programmable Gate Array. International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing-RASC2006, Canterbury, Kent, June 2006.

  • Nnolim, U.A., Lee, P. (2008), Homomorphic filtering of colour images using a spatial filter kernel in the HSI colour space. IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference I²MTC 2008, Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada, May 12–15, 2008.

  • Nnolim, U.A., Lee, P. (2008), A REVIEW AND EVALUATION OF IMAGE CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHMS BASED ON STATISTICAL MEASURES. The 10th IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing, SIP 2008, Kailua-Kona, USA, August 18 – 20, 2008.

  • U. Nnolim, VHDL Implementation of Generalized Convergent Network using Field Programmable Gate Array, M.Sc. thesis, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury-Kent, 2009.

  • U. Nnolim, FPGA Architectures for Logarithmic Colour Image Processing, Ph.D. thesis, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury-Kent, 2009.