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Tokunbo Makanju

Associate Professor; Computer Science, College of Engineering & Computing Sciences

Education Credentials: Ph.D.

Expertise: Evolutionary Computation, Big Data Analytics, Security for Connected Vehicles

Joined 91ÉçÇø: 2018

Tokunbo Makanju received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada in 2012. He chairs the Computer Science department at the Vancouver campus of 91ÉçÇø. He has held several positions prior to working with 91ÉçÇø, including postdoctoral researcher with IBM/CIVDDD in Toronto and Research Engineer with the Cybersecurity Lab at KDDI Research Inc. in Japan. His research interests exist at the intersection of Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Network Management and Cybersecurity.

  • S. M. Fattahi, A. Makanju and A. Milani Fard,  2020 50th Annual IEEE-IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks-Supplemental Volume (DSN-S), 2020, pp. 51-52, doi: 10.1109/DSN-S50200.2020.00028
  • Samuel Champagne, Adetokunbo Makanju, Chengchao Yao, Nur Zincir-Heywood, and Malcolm Heywood, 2018, . In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion” (GECCO ’18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1632–1639. DOI:https://doi-org.arktos.nyit.edu/10.1145/3205651.3208244
  • A. Makanju and S. Kiyomoto, 2017 IEEE 86th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall), 2017, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/VTCFall.2017.8288316
  • A. Makanju, Z. Farzanyar, A. An, N. Cercone, Z. Z. Hu and Y. Hu,  2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 2016, pp. 1422-1431, doi: 10.1109/BigData.2016.7840750

  • INCS 741: Cryptography
  • CSCI 690: Computer Networks
  • CSCI 651: Algorithm Concepts
  • INCS 870: Cybersecurity Project I
  • INCS 880: Cybersecurity Project II

Contact Information

Email: amakanju@nyit.edu

Phone: 778.783.5928

Office: Vancouver, BC