Profile of Prospective Supervisor

1. Name of prospective supervisor

Henry Nyongesa ( Prof.)

2. Department and Faculty

Computer Science……………………………………

3. Highest qualification PhD……

If you do not hold a PhD, are you registered for the PhD?
Yes No

If yes, when did you first register for the PhD and what is the expected
completion date?

…………………………………………………………………………

4. How many Postgraduate students do you currently supervise?

Degree level Number of students

Masters 1
PhD 8

5. List the number of completed Masters and PhD students under your
supervision

Degree level Number of students

Masters >5
PhD 6

6. List your publication output for the last three years:

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
1. Maleki-Dizaji S., M., Nyongesa H. O., and Khazaei B., (2008); UPlanIT: An
Evolutionary Based Production Planning and Scheduling System. Studies in
Computational Intelligence, pp443-452. Springer Berlin /Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-
540-78986-4.
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
1. Agebele K., Nyongesa H.O, and Ademola A. (2010); ICT and Information
Security Perspectives in E-health Systems, Journal of Mobile Communication
4(1): 17-22. ISSN: 1990-794X. DOI: 10.3923/jmcomm.2010.17.22)
2. Snasel V., Krömer P., Owais S. S. J., Nyongesa H. O., Maleki-Dizaji S. (2007);
Evolutionary Improvement of World Wide Web Queries, Neural Networks
World, 16, pp321-334. ISSN 1210-0552.

REFEREED ARTICLES IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

1. Adesina A. and Nyongesa H.O. (2010); Digital Watermarking: A State-of-Art
Review, IST-Africa 2010 Conference, Durban, South Africa 19-21, May.
2. Agbele K., Nyongesa H.O, Ademola A. and Liu X. (2010); Framework for
Implementing Mobile Information Access Environments in Healthcare, SATNAC
Conference, Stellenbosch.
3. Adesina A., Nyongesa H.O., and Agbele K. (2010); Text-messaging: a tool in e-
health services, SATNAC Conference, Stellenbosch.
4. Vadapalli, H. B., Nyongesa H. O. and Omlin C. W. P. (2009); Facial Expression
Recognition Using Recurrent Neural Networks, International Conference on
Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition, July 13-16, 2009,
USA.
5. Vadapalli, H. B., Nyongesa H. O. and Omlin C. W. P. (2009); Upper Face FACS
AU Recognition: Dimensionality Reduction and Network Optimization.
Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa (PRASA),
Stellenbosch, Nov 30- Dec 1.
6. Nyongesa H. O., Maleki-dizaji S. and Mbero Z.A. (2008); Optimization of Finite
Capacity Scheduling using an Evolutionary Approach, Proc. Seventh IASTED,
Int. Conf. Modelling, Simulation and Optimization, September, 8-10, Gaborone,
Botswana.
7. Mpoeleng D., Anderson G., Asare S., Ayalew Y., Garg D., Gopolang B.,
Masizana-Katongo A., Mogotlhwane O., and Nyongesa H. O. (2007); Towards a
Bilingual SMS Parser for HIV/AIDS Information Retrieval in Botswana,
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication
Technologies and Development (ICTD2007), Decemeber 15-16, Bangalore, India.
8. Maleki-dizaji, S., Nyongesa, H. O., and Khazaei, B. (2007); UPlanIT: An
Evolutionary Based Production Planning and Scheduling System, International
Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO
2007), Acireale, Sicily (Italy), Nov. 8 – 10, 2007.
9. Snasel V., Kromer P., Musilek P., Nyongesa H.O. and Husek D. (2007); Fuzzy
Modeling of User Needs for Improvement of Web Search Queries. Annual
Meeting of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, 2007.
NAFIPS’07. San Diego CA, 24-27 June, 446 – 451.
10. Snasel V., Kromer P., Owais S., Nyongesa H.O, and Maleki-dizaji S. (2007);
Evolving Web Search Expressions. Proceedings of the Third International
Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC 2007).
11. Owais S.S.J, Kromer P, Snasel V., Nyongesa H.O and Maleki-Dizaji S. (2007);
Upgrading Web Search Queries. Proceedings of the 18th International
 Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications DEXA’07,
Regensburg, Germany, September,
12. Snasel, V. et al (2007); Evolutionary Improvement of World Wide Web Queries;
1st International Conference on Digital Communications and Computer
Applications, Irbid, Jordan, March 19-22, pp-630-640.
13. Anderson G., Asare S.D. Eyitayo O.T. Mpoeleng D. Nkgau T. Nyongesa H.O.
and Ogwu F.J. (2007); Information Retrieval Techniques for Mobile Healthcare;
Proc. 9th Int. Conf. Advanced Communication Technology, Seoul, South Korea,
12-15, February.

KEYNOTE / PLENARY ADDRESSES

1. “Trends in the use of mobile and smart phones for digital inclusion”. Panel
Discussion Leader at the Microsoft Research South America Faculty Summit,
Vina del Mar, Chile, May 2007.
2. “Mobile Information Access to Compliment HIV/AIDS Clinical Management”.
Plenary Address to the Microsoft Middle East-Africa Academic Conference,
Tunis, 5-11 February, 2007.

Signed by prospective supervisor: Date: 20/10/2010

Signed by HOD: …………………………………………………… Date: ………………….

[Approved by SHD 2010/01 dated 10 February 2010]