Professor Bamidele Adebisi

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Biography

Bamidele Adebisi is a Professor in Intelligent Infrastructure Systems and Head of the Smart Infrastructure and Industry Research (SIIR) Group at the Department of Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University.  

He received MSc. and Ph.D. in Communication Systems both from Lancaster University, UK. Before that, he had a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. He was a Research Associate/Senior Research Associate in the School of Computing and Communication, Lancaster University between 2005 and 2012, where he was involved in multiple research projects, including acting as a Work Package Leader of a successfully completed EU FP7 smart grid Project.

His research is in embedding sensing, communication, control, and data analytic technologies in critical infrastructure, i.e. energy systems, transport, buildings, water etc. He publishes widely in the research areas of Internet of Things (IoT), smart cities, smart grids, peer to peer energy trading and sharing, Electric Vehicles (V2X/CAVs), PLC/wireless communication and indoor solutions for energy and occupancy management.  

He has been part of multi-partner, multi-country, mutli-million-pound projects as an Investigator funded by the government, international agencies, and corporate bodies, involving projects worth >£45M. Between 2015 and 2022, he was one of the Senior Investigators of the team that  led  the establishment of one of the largest knowledge driven low carbon districts in Europe, incorporating sustainable urban mobility, integrated infrastructures, and processes, including energy, ICT and transport through Triangulum, a €29M EU H2020 Smart Cities funded project. He  was also a Co-Investigator of  CityVerve, a £10M smart Cities Project which investigated big data energy analytics platform for real time monitoring and prediction of energy, transport, health/wellbeing across the City of Manchester, UK. Other projects include the  EPSRC/TSB micro-grid for energy  management (£700K), EPSRC UK -Korea Peer to Peer Energy Trading & Sharing (£1M), BEIS funded UK-Canada -Energy IQ (£2.7M), etc. He was the Academic Lead on Nigeria Intelligent Clean Energy Marketplace (NIceEnergi, £600K), a UK-Nigeria Partnership to develop a sustainable energy management system for a community in Nigeria, funded by the UK government.  In 2023, he started a four year EU H2020 grant in partnership with 9 EU  and 5 African collaborators to develop cutting edge wireless communication and AI for rural applications.  

He has a strong record of accomplishment of attracting industrial-related grants through Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP). One of such projects received the UK Best  of the best KTP Project of the Year Awards in September 2020.

In 2021, Bamidele received the University Staff award for the industrial/Business collaborator of the year.

He is a Director/ Board Member of the African Hydrogen Partnership Trade Association (AHP), Mauritius, and a member of the leadership team of the Manchester Fuel Cell Innovation Centre, UK.  He was the Vice Chair of IEEE TC-PLC and Vice- Chair of Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Manchester Branch. He has been General Chair / Co - Chair of IEEE conferences, e.g. 27th IEEE ISPLC (2023), 21st IEEE ISPLC (2018), UK, 6th IEEE Int’l Conference on Smart Grid Communications, USA, etc.

He is Panel Member of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Peer Review College, and an EU Expert Reviewer/ rapporteur.

Bamidele is a Fellow of IET, Senior member of IEEE, a Fellow of Higher Education Academy and a Chartered Engineer.

Words of Wisdom

for D(X,Y), where D is the  effective distance between points X and Y.

PATIENCE (EMOTION, ACTION)

Pause Think Act (PTA) !

Prizes and awards

  • Winner Manchester Met Staff Award Winner: Industry/Business Collaborator of the Year 2021
  • Winner Best Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Project of the Year 2020
  •  Winner MMU Research Knowledge Exchange Award 2016
  •  Winner MMU Knowledge Exchange Outstanding Project of the year Award 2016
  •  Winner MMU Research Knowledge Exchange Award 2014
  • Winner MMU Knowledge Exchange Outstanding Project of the year Award 2014

Expert reviewer for external funding bodies

  • 2023- Present: Innovate UK project Reviewer
  • 2022 – Present : EU H2020 Project Progress Assessor
  • 2020 – Present:  Expert Reviewer, The Paris Region Fellowship Programme
  • 2018 - Panel Member, EPSRC Peer Review College
  • 2011 - Present: Associate Member, EPSRC Peer Review College
  • 2015 - Present: EU H2020 Expert Reviewer/ rapporteur
  • 2018 - Present: Panel Member/Reviewer, Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation - Scientific Evaluation Committee (SEC) - Integrated Projects (Energy)

Visiting and honorary positions

  • Visiting Professor, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, 2023
  • Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria, 2023
  • Board Member, African Hydrogen Partnership, Mauritius,2021
  • Member, African Union Scientific Technical  Research Committee, Ethiopia,2021
  • Adviser, AI Green Energy Group, Fed. University of Technology, Mina, Nigeria
  • Visiting International Scholar, Covenant University, Nigeria, 2019
  • Visiting Professor, Federal university of Juiz de Fora in 2013
  • Committee Member, Lancaster University Research Concordat Monitoring Group (RCMG), a sub –committee of the University Research Committee ( 2012)

Editorial Board membership

Membership of professional associations

  • Fellow, Institute of Engineering and Technology (FIET).
  • Fellow Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
  • Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, (SMIEEE).
  • Chartered Engineer (CEng), The Engineering Council.
  • Member, Institute of Engineering and Technology (MIET).
  • Member, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineer (MIEICE).

Impact

REF2021 Submission

  • Led  impact case study ‘UoA12- Smart systems and Industry 4.0: increasing the value and productivity of Northwest manufacturing’
  • Supported impact case study in UoA-11 - Knowledge Exchange partnerships with local SMEs drives sale and export to new markets of novel cybersecurity products and services

Invited/Keynotes/Panellist Presentations

  • Panellist, Investment Opportunities in Namibia’s Green Economy, COP28, UAE, Dec, 2023
  • Invited Speaker, the   Green Hydrogen Technology for System Transformation  in Energy and Business & Industry Sectors ; October 2023, Benin Republic;  organised by the UN and West African Development Bank
  • Invited Guest /moderator  / key Note Speak at  International Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Vehicle Congress and Excibition (FCVC) in Shanghai, China, July, 2023
  • Special Guest Speaker, FocusLab, at the College of Telecommunications and Information Engineering,  Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, July 2023.
  • Invited Guest /pannelist/moderator  at the Southern Africa- European Green Hydrogen Forum- ‘ fast-track development of climate-neutral hydrogen industries in Southern Africa’ ,  June, 2023, Angola;  organized by the  The German-Angolan Hydrogen Office hosted by the Delegation of German Economy in Angola (AHK) 
  • Guest Speaker,  Connecting and Securing Smart Infrastructure through partnership with Industry and other stakeholders, King Fahd  University of Petroleum & Minerals/ in Partnership with Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia, September, 2023. 
  • Invited Guest Speaker, ‘ Smart Infrastructure: Catalyst for national development’   at the Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD), Nigeria, May 2023.
  • Invited Guest/ Panellist at the World Hydrogen Forum, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 9-11, May, 2023
  • Invited Guest/ Panellist at  Africa Green Hydrogen Finance Accelerator Forum in Nouakchott, Mauritania, on 13-14 April 2023
  • Moderator/Presenter, KTP Capacity Building Academic Workshop 2, 6th March, 2023
  • Moderator/Presenter, KTP Capacity Building Academic Workshop 1, 13th February, 2023
  • Guest Speaker, The role of Africa in the production and transportation of hydrogen (and how price transparency early on can support the rapid evolution of the global market in hydrogen, Ukrainian Hydrogen Council Conference, 21st February, 2021
  • Moderator, Unlocking the Cybersecurity Benefits of Digital Twins, MMU Digital Twin Seminar Series, 22nd February, 2023.
  • Moderator,  Panel discussion on Hydrogen Valley in Nigeria: A driver for Economic Development, Organised by Impact Hydrogen (Netherlands), Tekinologi (Nigeria), 13th February, 2023
  • Invited Guest  at the 5th African Scientific, Research and Innovation Council (ASRIC) Congress, 8thth to 9tt Mombasa, Kenya.
  • Guest Speaker Bavarian-African Hydrogen Forum on the Green African Hydrogen Africa’s Potential, November, 2022
  • Panellist at the West African Clean Energy and Environment Trade Fair and Conference (WACEE), Lagos, October 2022
  • Panellist on the Invitation of the African Development Banks (AFDB) Group, at the Africa Green Hydrogen Forum Ahead of COP27 in Abidjan, September 2022
  • Speaker on ‘ Green African Hydrogen: Africa’s Potential and China’s Opportunities’ at the China-Africa Hydrogen Forum 2022, organized by the International Hydrogen Fuel Cell Association & China Society of Automotive Engineers, 14th Sept, 2022
  • Speaker at University of Lagos on ‘The Value of Connected Energy Systems’ October 2022
  • Speaker at The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Nigeria on ‘Smart Cities: a myth, a faraway reality, or a journey without a destination?’ October 2022.
  • The Global Green Hydrogen Revolution – Opportunities for the Commonwealth, Webinar by Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council/ African Hydrogen Partnership, April 2022
  • Connected, Greener and Sustainable Cities through Smart Technologies, Energy and Power Group, Oxford University, 8th July, 2021
  •  “Smart Cities Offer Growth For Manchester SMEs, MIDAS, 2021
  • Smart Infrastructure – The Road to Net Zero, United Utilities Innovation Event,  11 May, 2021. 
  • Smart Cities and Connectivity, Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)  20 April 2021. 
  • Smart Infrastructure Research at Manchester Met’   at Energy Internet Research Institutes (EIRI) Tsinghua University/ Manchester Met University Partnership Event, 10th March 2021.
  • Delivering Infrastructure Projects to Boost Economic Growth’  Inside Government, ‘31 March, 2021.  Guest Speaker: Peer to Peer Energy Trading and Sharing, A Concept Whose Time Has Come, Association of Professional Women Engineers in Nigeria (APWEN), April, 2020
  • Guest Speaker:  ‘Future of Energy Infrastructure’ talk organised by AI Green Energy Group, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria, April, 2020.
  • Guest Speaker: Connectivity and Energy Management in Smart City: The Triangulum Experience, Winlab, Rutgers University,  New Jersey, USA, Feb 2019 
  • Panellist, EU discussion on Smart Cities: Global Science, Local Impact’ at the Manchester Science Festival, 2018
  • Invited Speaker: ‘Internet of Energy: The Role of Communication Infrastructure, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai
  • Keynote Speaker: Integrated Energy Management in Smart City: Triangulum Experience’ International Workshop on VR/AR over 5G for Smart City Moscow, November 7, 2018, Moscow, Russia 
  • Guest Speaker: “Integrated Energy Management in Smart City: The Road Ahead”, key note speech at Covenant University, Nigeria,16th August, 2018.
  • Invited Speaker: “Transactive Energy Platform for future V2X” keynote speech for The 4th Industrial Revolution Onsite Visit on Autonomous Vehicles & Smart Cities,  April 29th to 4th May 2018. ( Organized by British Embassy Seoul & ONCAR Ltd) (Guest Speaker)
  • Key Note:  Transactive Energy & Role of Communication Infrastructure, International Conference on Future Networks and Distributed Systems, Cambridge, United Kingdom July 19 - 20, 2017
  • Invited Speaker: Smart In-building Lighting Control and Energy Management Systems, UK Construction Week, NEC Birmingham, 10-11 October, 2017
  • Invited Speaker: ‘Internet of Energy: The Role of Communication Infrastructure, Coordinated Development of  New Energy Technologies & Multi-Energy Internet’,  China-UK International Energy Internet Conference, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China; 22-25th October, 2017
  • Key Note:  “Emerging Trends: Smart Cities”, International Conference on Cyberspace , Abuja, Nigeria, UK, 4th - 7th November, 2015
  • Invited Speaker: “Ownership - A key factor in selection of smart grid communication technologies”, 7th International Conference on Wireless and Satellite Services (WiSATS), Bradford, UK, 6th - 7th July, 2015
  • Guest Talk: ‘What Makes Science & Engineering Fun’, STEM outreach presentation to year 5 at St Mary’s Primary School in Collaboration with Jaguar Landrover, June, 2014.
  • Key Note:  “High Rate Narrowband Powerline Communications (Nb-PLC) for Smart Grid (SG) Applications”, 9th IEEE/IET Int’I Conf. on Communication Networks and Digital signal Processing, Manchester, UK, 2014.
  • Invited Speaker: “Acoustic Beamforming in Complex Dynamic Systems”, 2013 IEICE ICTF in Poznan, Poland, 28-30 May 2014
  • Invited Speaker: “PowerLine Communication: A natural Communication Platform for Smart Grid Applications”, 1st International Workshop on Smart Grid Communication, Juiz de Fora, Brazil, 11 -12 April, 2013.
  • Invited Talk, ‘DLC Channel Modelling for Smart Grid applications,” 5th Workshop on Power Line Communications - For the Grid of the Future, 22- 23 September, 2011, WTC, Arnhem, The Netherlands.
engineers installing smart meter

Aquacheck: A Knowledge Transfer Partnership

Developing smart solutions to infrastructure problems in the water industry.

Go to project

Projects

N

Grant Title

Role

Awarding Body

Total Budget

Value to MMU

Start

End

1

power quality studies for emerging

technology (Hydrogen Production through Electrolysis)

PI/Academic Lead

Innovate UK/UKRI

£277K

£277K

2023

2026

2

AI/IoT for plants monitoring and management

PI

Innovate UK/ I want Plant

£220K

£220K

2023

2025

3

Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Capacity Building Project

PI

Innovate UK

£30K

£30K

2023

2023

4

Digital Innovation in Sustainable Livestock Farming (Digit-able),

PI

Zoetis

£80K

£80K

2021

2022

5

REMARKABLE-  Rural Environmental Monitoring via ultra wide-ARea networKs And distriButed federated Learning

PI

EU Marie Currie Staff Exchange

€1m

€200k

2023

2027

6

GM Peer to Peer Energy Market:

PI

Bruntwood/UKRI

£63K

£63K

2021

2022

7

Smart Cities: Liveable Philippines

Co-I

British Council

£19K

£19K

2022

2022

8

Digital Twin/ AI enabled- Cybersecurity

Co-I

Innovate UK/KTP with BlueTech

£370K

£370K

2021

2023

9

Implementation of  smart sensor for pipe freeze applications

Co-I

Innovate UK/KTP with Artic Hayes LTD

£225K

£225K

2021

2023

10

Design/optimize Living Green Wall Infrastructure

Innovate UK/KTP with I want Plants LTD

£180K

£180K

2021

2023

11

Triangulum- Smart Cities and Communities solution project integrating energy, transport, ICT sector.

 PI

/ MMU

EU H2020 ; Consortium of 22 partners across three EU cities (Manchester, Eindhoven and Stavanger)

MMU received  €330K funding , plus over €450K assets (PV and Batteries)

€29M

€330K

2015

2020

12

NIceEnergi - Nigeria Intelligent Clean Energy Marketplace

PI /MMU

Department for International Development (DFID), UK-Nigeria Partnership [3 UK/Nigerian Partners]

£600K

£200K

2019

2021

13

Energy IQ

PI/MMU

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS); UK-Canada partnership [7 UK/Canada partners]

£2.2M

£200K

2019

2021

14

Greater Manchester SME Zero Carbon Accelerator

PI/MMU

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS); [5  Manchester partners]

£57K

£7K

2019

2019

15

Multi-input platform for driver interface with vehicle controls

PI

Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Project with Jeff Gosling Hand Controls Ltd

£234 K

£234 K

2018

2021

16

Non-Intrusive Water Quality Management System/Mobile Water Metering Infrastructure

PI/ Co-I (Dr Viji Velusamy)

Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Project with Aquacheck Engineering Ltd, UK

£311 K

£311K

2016

2020

17

Peer-to Peer Energy Trading and Sharing -3M, (Multi-times, Multi-scales, Multi-qualities (Partner: Bath(lead), Oxford and Imperial

PI (MMU)

Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) (UK-Korea Partnership) in collaboration with 5 S Korean Institutions.

£1M

£158K

2017

2019

18

Cybersecurity for Internet of Things

PI/ Co-I (Dr M. Hammoudeh)

Innovate UK-KTP Project with RAAIT Ltd, Greater Manchester

£166K

£188K

2017

2020

19

Citiverve IOT for Smart City project

 (Co-I)/ PI ( Prof Tom Jefferies)

Innovate UK

with 23 partners across Greater Manchester, Manchester City Council (Lead), Cisco (Technical Lead), BT

£10M

£440k

2016

2018

20

Smart in-Building micro grid for energy management

PI

EPSRC & Innovate UK in collaboration with two industrial partners

£720K

£177K

2015

2017

21

Non-Intrusive Mobile Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) for Water Management in partnership with local SME

PI

Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership Project with Aquacheck Engineering Ltd. Greater Manchester

£177K

£177K

2016

2019

22

Data Communication over future rail systems

 Co-I/ PI (Dr Georgina Haris)

OSL Rail and Engineering Services:

£72K

£72K

2017

2020

23

Future IoT

PI

Cyraatek Ltd

£32K

£32K

2018

2021

24

Digital Signal Processing for Automotive Application

PI

Jaguar Land-Rover

£73K

£73K

2013

2015

25

Smart Grid Project worth Eu5.5M;

RI/WP Leader

EU FP7  ; consortium of 12 organizations from 7 countries, including Netherland, Belgium, Austria, Germany, Italy, Israel and UK.

€5.5M

£210K

2010

2013

26

Wire integrity Testing Using Artificial Neural

Researcher

BCF Design Ltd

£150K

£150K

2010

2013

27

High Rate Broadband indoor Power Line Communication

Researcher

EPSRC

£161K

£161K

2005

2007

Teaching

Postgraduate teaching

  • Smart Technologies for Power Management
  • Industrial Communication

Supervision

PhD Completions 

  1. 2023: Enhancement of Data Centre Power Consumption through Predictive Algorithm (Main Supervisor)
  2. 2023:  Acoustic Modelling Data Augmentation and Feature Extraction for In-pie Machine Learning Applications ( Main Supervisor)
  3. 2022: Federated Deep Learning for Cybersecurity (Main Supervisor)
  4. 2021: Hybrid Communication System for Rail management (Main Supervisor)
  5. 2021: Multimodal Sensors for Energy Management (Main Supervisor)
  6. 2020: Distributed Algorithms for Peer-to-peer Energy Trading (Main Supervisor)
  7. 2020: Modelling and Analysis of (VLC) for Industrial Applications  (Supervisor).
  8. 2020: Energy Oriented Path and Message Scheduling  Approach for IoT (Supervisor).
  9. 2019: Socio-technical Perspectives on Smart City implementation  (Supervisor).
  10. 2019: Wireless Power Transfer for Electric Vehicles Applications (Director of Studies).
  11. 2017: Sensor Networks for Energy Management (Director of Studies).
  12. 2012: Mutifold Turbo Code for Multi user binary adder power Line Channel (Supervisory Team).
  13. 2010: Non-Linearity Mitigation in Wireless  Communication Systems (Supervisory Team).

PhD Examinations 

  1. 2023: University of British Columbia, Canada
  2. 2023: University of Manchester, UK
  3. University of East London, UK (2022)
  4. University of Central Lancashire, UK (2021)
  5. Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad (2021)
  6. University of Coventry,  External Examiner (2020).
  7. University of Sheffield,  External Examiner (2019).
  8. University of Edinburgh,  External Examiner (2017).
  9. University of South Wales, External Examiner (2017).
  10. University of Cape Town, South Africa, External Examiner (2017).
  11. University of Newcastle, Australia,  External Examiner (2014).
  12. MMU, Independent Chair for PhD Viva Examinations
  13. MMU, Internal Examiner for PhD Viva Examinations

Contribution to Learning and Teaching

  1. Research informed Teaching at PG and UG:
  • Founder & Leader,  Smart Tech. for Energy Management (Msc Unit; 70% research contents)
  • Research outputs included in two final year UG units  to show current trends in the field.
  1. EU project (Triangulum) developed into UG students Personal Development Project (PDP).
  2. Innovation in Lab Delivery: Communication Engineering System
  3. 2014 -2016:    Founder/ leader of Extra-curricular Group, MMU Smart System Students (S^3) won the National Cisco Hackathon- a competition among Universities across the UK.   
  4. 2014 -2016:      Placement Visits and Personal Tutoring
  5. 2012- Present: Supervision of UG and PG Research Project

Research Staff Supervision 

  1. 2014 – 2016: Dr S E  (expertise:  communications/smart systems/ Automotive DSP, RF )
  2. 2016 – 2018: Dr K R  (expertise:  communications/smart systems/ IoTs )
  3. 2016 – 2019: Dr K A    (expertise:  communications/smart systems/ Energy management )
  4. 2017 – 2019: Dr A I (expertise:  smart grids/ V2G/ communications/smart systems)
  5. 2017 – 2018: Dr A G( Sensors/ embedded system)
  6. 2017 – 2018: Dr R S    (Sensors/ embedded system)
  7. 2017 – Present : Dr O O  (Visiting Research  Fellow)
  8. 2016 – 2018: Mr J S  ( Cyber security for IoTs)    [ KTP Associate]
  9. 2016 – 2019: Mr D C (sensors/embedded systems/)  [ KTP Associate]
  10. 2018 - Present: Mr B K ( Cyber security for IoTs)    [ KTP Associate]
  11. 2018 – Present: Mr S U ( Embedded Systems, RF) [ KTP Associate]
  12. 2019 – Present: Dr Y T, (Smart grid/energy modelling) ( Research Associate)
  13. 2020 – Present : Dr O J ( Local energy market, AI/ML) ( Research Associate)
  14. 2020- 2022 : Mr T K ( Software Engineering/ Digital Twin/ IoT) ( Research Associate)

Research outputs

• Local energy consumption.
• Peer to peer energy trading system with a core function of exchanging energy between buildings and electric vehicles (EV), through the use of flexibility, battery storage and smart charging
• Smart Grid, Smart Cities and Communities
• Wireless and Powerline Communications/ Digital Signal Processing
• Internet of Things and Connected Objects/ Machine to Machine Communications
• Smart Systems for Energy, Air Quality, Transport, and Water Management