Ezekiel Femi Adebiyi, PhD
 

Tel: (+234/0) 1 8179670-4 ext 2023 

1987-1991                    B.Sc (Hons) Mathematics (2nd Class Upper division), University of Ilorin, Nigeria.

1992-1995                    M.Sc. Mathematics with „B+“ (Computer Option), University of Ilorin, Nigeria.

1998-2002                    Ph.D Computer Science with „cum laude“ (good) (Algorithms and Bioinformatics).

                           Supervisors: Prof. M. Kaufmann and Prof. T. Jiang of University of Tübingen,

   Germany and University of California, Riverside, USA. Dissertation title: Pattern

   Discovery in Biology and Strings Sorting: Theory and Experimentation.

1992-1995       Graduate Assistant, Department of Mathematics, University of Ilorin, Nigeria.

1995-1998       Assistant Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, University of Ilorin, Nigeria.

1996-1997              Consultant/Project Officer, Informatics Company and Telematics (IC and T) Limited,

Ilorin, Nigeria.

1996-1997Visiting Lecturer, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Department of Computer

Science and Engineering, Ogbomosho, Nigeria.

1998-2002       Research Fellow, Eberhard Karl Institute for Informatik, University of Tuebingen,

Germany.

04/01-05/01     Research Fellow, Department of Computer Engineering, University of California

(UCR), Riverside, California, USA.

1998-05/03      Lecturer II, Department of Mathematics, University of Ilorin, Nigeria.

05/03-09/03     Lecturer I, Department of Mathematics, University of Ilorin, Nigeria.

03/04-04/04     Visiting Scientist, San Diego SuperComputer (SDSC), San Diego, California, USA.

12/04-01/05     Visiting Scientist, University of California (UCSF), San Francisco, California, USA.

01/06-02/06     Visiting Scientist, LIRMM, CNRS, University of Montpelliar, France

09/03-present  Senior Lecturer, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria.

·      Operating Systems: Linux, Redhat, Solaris, and Windows.

·      Programming Languages and Package: C/C++, Java, Python, Perl, and Matlab.

My main research interests are in computational complexity and computational molecular biology, with emphases on

·         Biological sequence analysis and regulatory analysis

·         On the tRNA Structures using the graph theory methods

·         Derivation of a gene network from gene expression data with a particular focus on applications related to malaria and development of further dry/wet laboratory tools to stream down/validate thousands of proteins identified in the P. falciparum genome as new drugs or vaccine targets. (This is the work, I will be completing during my research visit to DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany).

·         On the tRNA Structures using the graph-theory methods The Africa Plasmodium falciparum DatabasThe Africa Plasmodium falciparum DatabaSearch for recombinations in homologous sequences and minisatellites

·         Selection of oligonucleotides in EST sequences

·          On the tRNA Structures using the graph-theory methods

·          The Africa Plasmodium falciparum Database

·         Member and President, Nigeria Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (NISBCB)

·         Member, Africa Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ASBCB)

·         Associate member, Nigeria Computer Society

·         Member, International Society of Computational Biology

·         ApiDB Workshop, June 26-29, 2006, The University of Georgia, USA (Participant and Resource Person)

·         Initiation, Coordination and Resource person at/of the First Covenant University International Workshop on Pattern Discovery in Biology (CUWPDB) 2005. (This is the first of its kind in Nigeria and Africa.)

·         Journees Ouvertes Biologie Informatique Mathematiques (JOBIM 2005), 6-8 July, 2005, Lyon, France.

·         West Africa Biotechnology workshop on Advanced Malaria Bioinformatics, WAWB, 3-8 May, 2004, University of Ibadan, Nigeria (Resource person)

·         Eigth Annual International Conferences on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB), March 27-31, 2004, Washington, USA.

·         Sixth Annual International Conferences on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB), April 16-20, 2002, Washington, USA.

·         DIMACS workshop on DNA Sequence and Topology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, April 17-20, 2001, NJ, USA.

·         Frontiers in Mathematical and Computational Biology, June 17-19, 2001, UT Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA.

·         Sequence-, Structures, Functions-Analysis Seminar, 04/12/2000 – 08/12/2000, Physiologisch-Chemischen Institut, University of Tuebingen, Germany.

·         CIME School on “Mathematical Methods for Protein Structure Analysis and Design”, 8-15 July, 2000, Bari, Italy.

·         13th International Conf. on Trend in Computing: Hardware, Software and Networking, 1996.

·         Deutsch Akademiker Austauch Diest (DAAD) aka German Academic Exchange Service Scholar Revisitation Award, June-July, 2006 (4,730 EURO)

·         Visiting Scientist, LIRMM, CNRS, University of Montpelliar, France (3, 000 EURO)

·         Covenant University Best Scientist of the Year, 2005

·         African Scientist to JOBIM, 2005 (1,687 EURO)

·         Covenant University, Senate Research Award, 2004 (=N=498,000.00)

·         First Covenant University International Workshop on Pattern Discovery in Biology (CUWPDB) 2005. (=N=2.5 million)

·         Visiting Scientist Award, University of California (UCSF), San Francisco, California, USA. ($ 3, 400)

·         Research Fellow, Eberhard Karl Institute for Informatik, University of Tuebingen, Germany. (73, 600 EURO)

·         Best Graduate Student Award, University of Ilorin, Nigeria, 1991

·         Oyo State Bursary Award, 1990

·          Member and President, Nigeria Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (NISBCB)

·          Member, Africa Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ASBCB)

·          Associate member, Nigeria Computer Society (NCS)

·          Member, International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB)

·         Teaching, Researching and Community development

·         Senior Lecturer

·         CUSS 12/3

·         Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

·          Teaching, Researching and Community development

·          Senior Lecturer

·          CUSS 12/3

·          Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

·         Coordinator, Nigeria NEPAD Continental Centre for Bioinformatics Research (France government sponsored) (2004-Till Date)

·         Initiation, Coordination and Resource person at/of the First Covenant University International Workshop on Pattern Discovery in Biology (CUWPDB) 2005. (This is the first of its kind in Nigeria and Africa.)

·         PG Coordinator, College of Science and Technology post-graduate (PG) program (2005-Till date)

·         Member of the Consultative team, Covenant University, Faculty Support Program (FSP) (2005-Till date)

·         Member, Covenant University Students Disciplinary Committee (SDC) (2005-Till date)

·         Covenant University, Computer and Information Sciences Department Final Year Academic Advisor (2005-Till date)

·         Journal of Bioinformatics, published by Oxford Press, UK (2005-Till date)

·         Advances in Modeling and Analysis (AMSE), Journal D: Mathematical tools and General computer tools (1999)

·         Osamor, Victor, Gene functions predictions from gene network with special focus on the malaria parasite. Co-supervisor: Dr. Emmanuel Llinas, Princeton University, USA (Ph.D thesis in progress)

·         Oyelade, Jelili, Gene functions predictions from OPI with special focus on the malaria parasite. Co-supervisor: Dr. Emmanuel Llinas, Princeton University, USA (Ph.D thesis in progress)

·         Ayepola, Olayemi, A further work on the genome-based drugs design for plasmodium falciparum. Co-supervisor: Dr. Diato Esiobu, Atlantic Florida University, USA (Ph.D thesis in progress)

·         Fatumo, Segun, SUTOODA: Suffix Tree based oligonucleotide design algorithm. (M.Sc thesis near completion)

·         Several B.Sc dissertations at the Covenant University (in progress) and the University of Ilorin (completed)

In Preparation

Ø       Adebiyi, E. F. The probability of occurrence in a single random sequence under the levenshtein metric revisited. (near completion)

Ø       Adebiyi, E. F., Fashoto, G., Adam L., Dill, K. A. and S-J. Chen. Theory for predicting ensembles and transitions for pseudoknot polymers.

Ø       Adebiyi, E. F. and Fatumo, S.  SUTOODA: SUffix Tree based OligOnucleotide Design Algorithm.

Ø       Adebiyi, E. F. and Rivals, E. On the detection of recombinations in multiple alignment of minisatellites.

 A)        Books

• Adebiyi, E. F. and Fatumo, S. Mathematical methods and their applications. (A  771 pages peer reviewed text) Covenant University Press, 2006 (to appear, the table of content is attached). 

• Adebiyi, E.F. Pattern Discovery in Biology and Strings Sorting: Theory and Experimentation. (A 152 pages peer reviewed text) Shaker Publisher, Aachen, Germany, 2002.

B)       Articles in Journals/Contributions to books

1. Adebiyi, E. F. Using suffix tree for efficient selection of unique oligos for large EST databases. (15 pages)  Submitted to WABI 2006 and International Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (IJBCB)
2. Adebiyi, E. F.  Systems biology and the development of vaccines and drugs for malaria treatment. (7 pages) Biokemistri, Journal of the Nigeria Society for Experimental Biologist (NISEB) (to appear) and also presented at the Covenant University International Workshop on Pattern Discovery in Biology (CUWPDB 2005), April 18-27,2005. (The further work designed via this work won the Deutsch Akademiker Austauch Diest (DAAD) aka German Academic Exchange Service Scholar Revisitation Award to be used at the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, June-July, 2006 (4,730 EURO)
3. Adebiyi, E.F. and Kaufmann, M. Extracting Common Motif under the Levenshtein Metric: Theory and Experimentation, Proc. Second International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI), Italy and also appeared as Lecture Note in Computer Science (LNCS), 140-156, 2002.
4. Adebiyi, E. F., Jiang, T., and Kaufmann, M. An efficient  algorithm for finding short approximate non-tandem repeats (Extended abstract), Proc. of the Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), Denmark, and also appeared as Bioinformatics 17(1): S5-S13, 2001.
5. Adebiyi, E.F. External memory  sorting of strings: A practical  approach, Wilhelm Schickard Institut TR, 24, 2000.

6.      Adebiyi , E. F. A further step toward improving Ayo game system, AMSE, 3(2): 53-69, 1999.

7. Bamigbola, O. M and Adebiyi, E. F. Generalized basis of finite order. Computer metrics, 1, 56-71, 1993.

 C)        Published Contributions to Academic Conferences

1. Adebiyi, E. F. and Oyelade, J. O. A comparative analysis of existing oligonucleotides selection algorithms and optimal parallel oligos selection for large EST databases (Extended abstract). Submitted to the Intl Workshop and Conf. On New Trends in the Mathematics and Computer Sciences with Applications to Real World Problems, 19-23 June, 2006
2. Adebiyi, E. F., Osamor, V. C. and Fatumo, S. A. Conventional doctor’s medication steps versus technologies emerging from bioinformatics. (13 pages) Proceeding of the 1^st International Conference on Human Development (ICHD), Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria, June 27-30, 2005.
3. Ekong, V. E., Ayo, C. K., Adebiyi, E. F., Ikhu-Omoregbe, N. A. and Ekong, U. The role of science and technology in global health. (7 pages) Proceeding of the 1^st International Conference on Human Development (ICHD), Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria, June 27-30, 2005.
4. Adebiyi, E. F., Fatumo, S  and Osamor, V. A.  A significant difference in output among microarray experiment front-end tools. (1 page) Poster proceeding of the 13th Annual International conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), Michigan, USA, 2005 and also presented at the Covenant University International Workshop on Pattern Discovery in Biology (CUWPDB 2005), April 18-27,2005. (Won a travel fellowship award)
5. Adebiyi, E. F. The probability of occurrence in a single sequence. Current in Computational Biology, Posters Proc. Eighth Annual International Conferences on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB), San Diego, USA, 451-2, 2004.
6. Adebiyi, E. F. and Dipe T. Finding higher order motifs under the levenshtein measure. Posters Proc. of the second IEEE Computer Society Bioinformatics Conference (CSB), Stanford, USA, 583-4, 2003.
7. Adebiyi, E. F. Extracting Simple Motif under the Levenshtein Metric, Current in Computational Biology, Posters Proc. Sixth Annual International Conferences on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB), Washington, USA, 1-2, 2002.
8. Adigun, M.O.,Olugbara, O.O. and Adebiyi , E.F.  A formal model of tool support for class distribution. Proc. 13th International Conf. on Trend in Computing: Hardware, Software and Networking, COAN, vol. 7: 186-208, 1996.
9. Adigun, M. O., Adebiyi, E. F. and  Olugbara, O. O. Using interface equation to characterise proper modularity. Proc. 13th International Conf. on Trend in Computing: Hardware, Software and Networking, COAN, 7, 209-227, 1996.

·          Member of the Consultative team, Faculty Support Programme (FSP)

·          Member, Student Disciplinary Committeee (SDC)

Prof. Micheal Kaufmann, Wilhelm-Schickard- Institut for Informatik University of Tuebingen, Sand 13, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany. E-mail: mk@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de

Prof. E. A. Adeyemi, College of Science and Technology, Covenant University, Km 10 Idiroko Road, P.M.B 1023, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria. E-mail:

Prof. T. S. Ibiyemi, College of Science and Technology, Covenant University, Km 10 Idiroko Road, P.M.B 1023, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria. E-mail: tsibiyemi@yahoo.com

Prof. Daniel Huson, Wilhelm-Schickard- Institut for Informatik, University of Tuebingen, Sand 14, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany. E-mail: huson@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de

Prof. Olivier Gascuel, LIRMM, 161 rue Ada, 34392 - Montpellier – FRANCE. E-mail: gascuel@lirmm.fr

Prof. Tao Jiang, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 330 Surge Building University of California, Riverside, CA 92521. E-mail: jiang@cs.ucr.edu

Prof. Roland Eils, Theoretische Bioinformatik, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (dkfz) in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany. E-mail: r.eils@dkfz.de