Ifiok Otung
Professor of Space Engineering
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- Faculty of Eng & Digital Technologies
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Biography
Ifiok
Otung is a Chartered
Engineer, Professor of Space Engineering, and Director of the
Bradford-Renduchintala Centre for Space AI, University of Bradford, UK. He was
formerly Professor of Satellite Communications at the University of South Wales
where he established PhD training and research as well as two
professionally accredited and highly successful MSc degrees in the subject. Prior
to that, he was a Research Fellow at the University of Surrey where his work
was focused on satellite link measurements and channel modelling.
Ifiok
holds a PhD in Satellite Communications from the University of Surrey, UK and
First-Class Honours and Master’s degrees in Electrical and Electronic
Engineering from the University of Ife, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He is an
award-winning academic with a broad international experience in Scholarship,
Teaching, Industrial collaboration, and Research (STIR).
Ifiok
is Associate Editor of Journal of Engineering, Editor of Advances in
Communications Satellite Systems, Technical Program Chair of the International
Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC), Accreditor for the Institution
of Engineering and Technology (IET), and member of the Communication
Systems Technical Committee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics (AIAA).
Professor
Otung is sole author of several major textbooks used in top universities around
the world, such as Oxford, Cambridge and UCL in the UK. These books include Communication
Engineering Principles 2E (Wiley, 2021, 952 pages, ISBN
978-1119274025), Digital Communications Principles and Systems (IET,
2014, 500 pages, ISBN 978-1849196116), etc.
Ifiok
has served as Consultant and Principal Investigator for various research and
development organisations, and as External Examiner of taught programmes at universities
in Scotland and England. He has supervised over 150 MSc and PhD
candidates, and contributed to around 200 technical
outputs in Journals, conferences, and workshops.
Professor Otung’s research covers
Space Technology (radio resource management, high throughput satellite
(HTS) systems, design of ultra-reliable LEO satellite downlinks for
hyperspectral earth observation and imaging, fade and interference prediction
and mitigation, mobile satellite channel modelling and performance enhancement,
radio wave propagation), Signal Processing (AI, signal detection, radar,
satellite beacon and meteorological data analysis and modelling, GNSS filters
design), and Wireless communication (security, bandwidth- and
energy-efficient RF signal design, array antennas, 5G/6G-satellite integration
and harmonisation).