Dr Idongesit Ekerete

Overview

Idongesit (ID) EKERETE (Member IEEE, IPEM) is a Lecturer in Computing Science at the School of Computing, Ulster University. He currently serves as Lab Manager in the Pervasive Computing Research Centre in the School. He holds the Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in the UK.

ID is a co-investigator within the £3.3M Advanced Research and Engineering Centre project funded by PWC within the thematic area of FinCrime. He leads the IEEE SMC UK-Ireland Chapter as the Vice-Chair. He also holds several academic awards such as UNIUYO overall best graduating student award and Prof. Hilary’s for best student award, amongst others.

He received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering (First Class Honours) from the University of Uyo, Nigeria, in 2011. From 2012 to 2013, he was trained as an Instrument and Control Systems Engineer at Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria. He received the M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom, in 2017. He was a Lecturer at the Department of Electrical/Electronic Engineering, University of Uyo, Nigeria, from 2011 to 2021.

His research interests include privacy-friendly home-based monitoring; unobtrusive sensing solutions; activity recognition and classification; AI-based activity modelling; sensor fusion and data mining. Others include sustainable design and development, digital twins, human-computer interaction, pervasive computing, and control systems engineering.