Ekpe Okorafor

Ekpe Okorafor, Ph.D (born 1971) is a Nigerian American Academic in Computer Science and Technology Expert in Big Data & Analytics. He is a deep Subject Matter Expert & Principal in Accenture Digital, providing thought leadership. In 2010, he established the High Performance Computing Centers for Excellence in Africa (Nigeria & Ethiopia) that focuses on leveraging massively parallel computing platforms to solve regional problems through simulation and modeling funded by the Nelson Mandela Institution Research grant. He is a visiting Professor in Computer Science at the African University of Science & Technology (AUST) Abujaand the Addis Ababa University (AAU). He also has been a visiting Scholar at the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste in Italy.

Okorafor holds a Ph.D. and a Master of Science Degree both in Computer Engineering from Texas A & M University. He also holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electronic & Computer Engineering from University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

He is also an adjunct Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas and is the founder of Radicube Technologies, a research consulting firm.

• Availability of JobTracker Machine in Hadoop/MapReduce Zookeeper Coordinated Clusters
• Percolation routing in a three-dimensional multicomputer network topology using optical interconnection
• A Fault-Tolerant High Performance Cloud Strategy for Scientific Computing
• Integrated hybrid optical node using dynamic reconfiguration and routing algorithms for bimodal traffic
• Design and analysis of a 3-dimensional cluster multicomputer architecture using optical interconnection for petaFLOP computing

• "Availability of JobTracker Machine in Hadoop/MapReduce Zookeeper Coordinated Clusters" (PDF). airccse.org. 
• "Percolation routing in a three-dimensional multicomputer network topology using optical interconnection". osapublishing.org. 
• "A Fault-Tolerant High Performance Cloud Strategy for Scientific Computing". ieeexplore.ieee.org. 
• "Integrated hybrid optical node using dynamic reconfiguration and routing algorithms for bimodal traffic". osapublishing.org. 
• "Design and analysis of a 3-dimensional cluster multicomputer architecture using optical interconnection for petaFLOP computing". tamu.edu. 

• Invited Speaker Computer Science Graduate Seminar
• Advisory Board for mHealth Africa Conference
• Speaker at AUST International Conference on Technology, October 2015
• Member, Research Data Alliance

• "Open Graduate Seminar with Dr. Ekpe Okorafor". tamu.edu. 
• "Anadach Group LLC :: e-Health Africa Conference Speakers". anadach.com. 
• "Computer Science Speakers AUSTECH Abuja". aust.edu.ng. 
• "Ekpe Okorafor". rd-alliance.org.