Biography of Dr. Abdulkareem Adinoyi

Abdulkareem Adinoyi received a B.Eng degree from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria, in 1992, a M.S degree from the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in 1998 and a Ph.D degree from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, in 2006. All the degrees are in electrical engineering. From April 1993 to August 1995 Mr. Adinoyi was with Dubi Oil Limited, Port Harcourt, Nigeria as an instrument/electrical engineer. Between September 1995 and October 1998 he was with KFUPM as a research assistant and between January 1999 and August 2002 he held the position of a lecturer at the department of electrical engineering, KFUPM. From January 2007 to August 2007, he was briefly at Qassim University, Saudi Arabia where he held the position of an assistant professor of electrical and electronic engineering. He is currently a senior research associate at the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering (SCE) at Carleton University, the position he held before the Qassim University stint. Between January 2004 and December 2006, he participated in the European Union 6th Framework integrated project - the WINNER. Since September 2007, under the auspices of SCE, he has been working on Samsung's advanced radio resource management project for OFDMA-based relay-enhanced broadband wireless networks. Dr. Adinoyi's research interests are in infrastructure-based multihop and relay networks, cooperative diversity schemes and protocols, and efficient radio resource management techniques for the next-generation wireless networks.

Dr. Adinoyi resides in the beautiful city of Ottawa with his wife, Khadeejah and their pearls (Nimatullah-Ize, Yusra-Ozohu, Saleema-Onize and Sakeena-Ozavize, and Ahmad-Adeiza).