Brief History of the Department
Computer Science and Informatics in Federal University Otuoke was one of the programmes under the then tripartite Department of Mathematical, Computer and Physical Sciences (MCP), which was created in 2011 under the Faculty of Science of the University. The demerge of the three programmes in MCP in February, 2016 lead to the creation of Computer Science and Informatics Department with Dr. Ureigho Roy Joel as the pioneer Acting Head of Department. Owing to the death of Dr. Ureigho in July, 2016, Dr Nlerum A. Promise was appointed the Acting Head of the Department. He was succeeded by Prof. Johnson Ohakwe in October, 2021. The current Head of Department, Prof. Stephen Onyejiuwaka Ibe succeeded Prof. Johnson in January, 2024.
In 2023, National University Commission (NUC) conducted Resource Verification in the Department and the exercise led to the establishment of a programme, Cyber Security in the Department. Hence, the name of the Department changed to Computer Science and Informatics and Cyber Security.
At present, there are Nineteen (19) Lecturers in the Department comprising one Professor, two Senior Lecturers, four Lecturer I, five Lecturer II and seven Assistant Lecturers and two Graduate Assistants. Additionally, the Department has some Adjunct Professors who render services to it. All the Assistant Lecturers in the Department are in the pursuit of their Ph.D Degree Programmes and all the Graduate Assistants are in the pursuit of their M.Sc Degree Programmes.
Staff list in the Department
S/N | NAME | APPOINTMENT | AREA(S) OF SPECIALIZATION |
1 | Tenure | Applied Geophysics | |
2 | Tenure | Computer Science and Pervasive Computing Systems, Machine Learning and Software Engineering | |
3 | Tenure | Database and Artificial Intelligence | |
4 | Tenure | Machine Learning | |
5 | Tenure | Computer Engineering, Management Information Systems, Networks and Networking. | |
6 | Tenure | Computer Graphics and Signal Processing | |
7 | Tenure | Mobile and High Speed Telecominication Networks | |
8 | Tenure | Artificial Intelligence | |
9 | Tenure | Machine learning | |
10 | Tenure | Artificial Intelligence | |
11 | Tenure | Artificial Intelligence, Health Informatics, Machine Learning and, Information Technology. | |
12 | Tenure | Machine Learning Cyber Security, Software Engineering | |
13 | Tenure | Artificial Intelligence And Cyber Security. | |
14 | Mr. Eze Francis Chukwuka | Tenure | Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security and Data Science |
15 | Mr. Godwin Larry Eniwei | Tenure | Mathematics of Complex Systems |
16 | Tenure | Cyber Security | |
17 | Mr. Ejele Best Chinwendu | Tenure | Cyber Security |
18 | Tenure | Machine Learning and General Research | |
19 | Mrs Jombo Asotekari Angel | Tenure | Database Systems, Graphics and Animation, Health Information |
20 | Tenure | Cybercrime and Information Security | |
21 | Mr. Elaweremi Peremobowei | Tenure | Computer Science |
22 | Tenure | Cyber Security | |
23 | Mr. Abdullahi Ishaq | Tenure | Computer Science |