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.

University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

Postgraduate Demonstrator/Teacher Sept 2005 – Sept 2009

  • Taught courses in Engineering and Computer Science.

PUBLICATIONS  

  1. 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.