L.O. Kehinde

Professor Lawrence Kunle Kehinde, a former Departmental Chair, Engineering Dean and University Deputy Vice Chancellor, received his B.Sc 1^st class Hons in Electronics (1971), and a D.Phil, Control Engineering (1975), at the University of Sussex UK. As a Fellow of the international Atomic Energy Agency, USA; He had his Post Doctoral Studies in Nuclear Instrumentation at the University of California, Berkeley USA (1977-1978). He has spent most of his years as a Professor of Instrumentation Engineering at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He was the Rector of the first private Polytechnic in Nigeria.  He recently concluded a 3-year Visiting Professor term at the Texas Southern University, Houston Texas USA. He has worked in Techno-Managerial position as the Director of ICT at OAU for years. His major field is Instrumentation Designs and has designed equipment. He was the founding Principal Investigator of the University’s iLab research and he currently designs remote and virtual experiments for remote experimentation. He is the coordinator of the Osun-Ife Research and Educational Network as well as a member of the Board of the Nigeria ICT Forum. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of both the Computer Association of Nigeria, and Computer Professionals of Nigeria and a Member of IEEE and ASEE. He has over 80 publications in Journals and Proceedings. He also jointly has two British Patents in the past.