Honours/Awards

• 2018  – Chinese Academy of Sciences President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) for visiting scientist.
• 2016  – Best poster award at the 2016 IEEE ICSAE Conference
• 2010 –  Xcel Best Engineering and Technology Student Award of the year 2009
• 2009 –  2nd most downloaded paper in terms of the number of full text downloads within IEEE Xplore in 2008, from the hundreds of                 papers published by IET Optoelectronics since 1980.
• 2008 –  C. R. Barber Conference Grant; awarded by the Institute of Physics (IoP)
• 2006  – 2009 – Northumbria University PhD Studentship
• 2006  – 2009 – Overseas Research Student Award (ORSA) by the UK Government
• 2008  – 2009 – Best performing PhD student for two consecutive academic sessions: 2007/2008 and 2008/2009
• 2009 –   Best performing PhD student award by Institute of Physics (IoP), North East of England Branch
• 2006 –   ‘Achievers Award’ by Ogun State Government of Nigeria for the year 2005
• 2005 – 2006 – Ogun State Government of  Nigeria Scholar (MSc)
• 2001 –   Federal Government of Nigeria Scholar (BSc)

Invited Talks

• Third West Asian Symposium on Optical and Millimetre-wave Wireless Communications (WASOWC2020), Tehran, Iran, 24 Nov 2020. Title: Ethical LiFi: Ethical Approach to Modulating LEDs for Lighting and Internet Connectivity.
• Edinburgh IEEE Student Branch Webinar Aug 27 2020. Title: Atomic Radio
• Tutorial on Visible Light Communications at EWSN conference, Lyon, France, Feb 17-19, 2020. Title: Basic and Advanced Modulation Techniques.
• Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia, 10 April 2019. Title: Internet through the Light Bulb
• Newcastle University, UK, 31 Jan 2019, Title – Underwater Optical Wireless Communication
• Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic,  Department of Telecommunications, 21-22 July 2016
• Cheltenham Science Festival, 12 June 2016, Title: Li-Fi – The New WiFi
• IEEE Photonics Society Summer Tropical July 11-13 2016
• Professors and Heads of Electrical Engineering (PHEE) Conference in London, Jan 13 2016.
• British Science Festival – University of Bradford, Thursday 10 September 2015 (Title: Li-Fi – Wireless data from every lightbulb)
• EPSRC UP-VLC Project meeting at the University of Edinburgh, 01 July 2015 (Title: LiFi: Light quality)
• Smart Sensing Technologies and Environments for Health, Friday 12th June 2015 (Title: LiFi: A light quality perspective)
• IEICE Information and Communication Technology Forum 2015, 3rd – 5th  June 2015, Manchester in UK (Title: Multicarrier modulation in optical wireless communications)
• Communication networks beyond the capacity crunch – further discussion organised by the Royal Society, 13th-14th May 2015. (Title: optimisation Technique for Optical OFDM Systems)
• CICStart online Seminar on LED Lighting Quality and Performance at Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, 29th Jan 2013. (Title: High-Power LED: Beyond Illumination.)
• The Rank Prize Funds Symposium on Solid State Lighting, Windermere 12th to 15th September, 2011. (Title: ‘High Data Rate Wireless Communications using White LED’)
• EPSRC Communications and Networking workshop in Photonic Communications, Oxford University, 28th/29th September, 2011. (Title: ‘OFDM based Visible Light Communications: Lab. Demonstrator Design and Challenges’)