About

Dr. Abdulkarim Oloyede is a leading African researcher in the field of Wireless Telecommunication, an Associate Professor (Teaching and Research) in the Department of Telecommunication Science, University of Ilorin, Nigeria and was a Post-Doctoral researcher at the University of York, UK. He teaches and supervises research at the undergraduate and Postgraduate level at the University. He received his first degree in Electrical Engineering in 2008. He obtained his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunications Engineering at University of York, UK in 2010 and 2015 respectively. He is a Rutherford commonwealth scholar and the first and currently the only winner of the Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC) research fellowship (Oct 2021-Oct 2022). He is an author or co-author of over 100 scientific publications in leading journal and conferences around the world. He was a member of the ICANN At-Large advisory committee (ALAC) (2018-2020), Co-Chair AFRINIC Policy Development Working Group (2019-2021) and Vice Chairman for the ITU-D Telecommunication Development Advisory Group (2018-2025) Representing the African Region and has been representing Nigeria in various ITU meetings since 2016, He is also a Vice Rapporteur for the ITU-D study Question 5/2 (2018-2021) Rapporteur for study question 5/2 on ICT adoption and Digital skills (2022-2025) and an Ambassador for the ICANN Universal Acceptance. He is also a member of the ICANN RSSAC caucus and currently the leader of the Local Perspective WP of the RSACC Caucus. He is a Registered Engineer both in Nigeria with COREN and in the UK. He is also a member of the Nigeria Society of Engineers (NSE) and the IEEE. He was a member of the panel that appointed Vice chancellors for the University of York, University of Lagos and Fountain University in 2012, 2017 and 2018 respectively. He was appointed by the Federal Government of Nigeria to represent Nigeria at the ITU. He was the Head of Department of Department of Telecommunication Science University of Ilorin. He has taken a number of courses with GSMA, and the United State Telecommunication Training Institute (USTTI). He has previous attended regional meetings for AFRINIC, RIPE, ARIN and APINIC. He has physically attended 2 global IGF, a number of Nigeria IGF, UK IGF and West Africa IGF’s. He has travelled to over 50 countries across the 5 continents of the world including about 14 African countries.