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Listed in the Who’s Who in the World, 2008 & 2009 Edition.

Listed in the Who’s Who in America, 2007, 2008 & 2009 Edition.

Listed in the Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 2008 Edition.

2007 Missouri University of Science and Technology Faculty Excellence Award
(recognizing excellence in teaching, research and service contributions to the UMR).

2007 Missouri University of Science and Technology Commendation for Teaching Excellence.

2007 IEEE IAS Small Outstanding Chapter - Chair of the St. Louis IEEE IAS Chapter.

2007 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award.

2006 IEEE St. Louis Section Outstanding Section Member.

2006 Missouri University of Science and Technology School of Engineering Teaching
Excellence Award.

2006 IEEE PES Walter Fee Outstanding Young Engineer.

2005 Missouri University of Science and Technology Faculty Excellence Award
(recognizing excellence in teaching, research and service contributions to the UMR).

IEEE The Institute Member Profile – November 2005

2005 South African Institute of Electrical Engineers Young Achiever’s Award presented by ABB
PowerTech Transformers.

2005 IEEE Industry Application Society’s Outstanding Young Member Award.

2004 IEEE St. Louis Section Young Outstanding Engineer.

2004 NSF CAREER Award: Faculty Early Career Development Program.

Nominated by the Missouri University of Science and Technology for the Microsoft Faculty
Fellowship Award in 2004.

2003 International Neural Network Society Young Investigator Award Recipient for the
Outstanding Contributions in Applications of Neural Networks, Particularly in Power Systems.

Recognized by Professor James Momoh on behalf of the National Science Foundation, Rensselaer

Polytechnic Institute and Howard University for participation and contribution to the
US-Africa research and education collaboration (promoting research and education in power,
information technology, and environment), Howard University, Washington DC, November 6, 2003.

Second Best Prize Paper Award for the paper entitled “Adaptive Critic Based Optimal Neurocontrol
for Synchronous Generator in Power System Using MLP/RBF Neural Networks” presented by the
Industrial Automation and Control Committee of the IEEE IAS at the 2003 IAS Annual Meeting,
Salt Lake City, USA.

Third Best Poster Paper Award of the Conference for the paper entitled “Evolving Digital Circuits
Using Particle Swarm” at the IEEE-INNS IJCNN 2003.

Recognized by Professor James Momoh on behalf of the Howard University, Washington DC, USA
with the leadership award at the International Conference on Power Systems Operation and
Planning, Abuja, Nigeria, December 19, 2002.

2001 Walter Karplus Summer Research Support Awardee, IEEE Computational Intelligence
Society - One in four to receive globally.

Best Poster Paper Award in the Implementation Category for the paper entitled “Experimental
Studies with Continually Online Trained Artificial Neural Network Identifiers for Multiple
Turbogenerators on the Electric Power Grid” at the IEEE-INNS IJCNN 2001.

Best of Session Poster Paper Award at the IEEE-INNS IJCNN 2001 for the paper entitled
“Experimental Studies with Continually Online Trained Artificial Neural Network Identifiers
for Multiple Turbogenerators on the Electric Power Grid”.

Best of Session Poster Paper Award at the IEEE-INNS IJCNN 2001 for the paper entitled “A
Committee of Neural Networks for Automatic Speaker Recognition”.

Best Poster Paper Award of the Conference for the paper entitled “Experimental Studies with a
Continually Online Trained Artificial Neural Network Controller for a Turbogenerator” at
the IEEE-INNS IJCNN 1999.

Best of Session Presentation Award at the IEEE-INNS IJCNN 1999 for the paper entitled “TD
Methods Applied to Mixture of Experts for Learning 9?9 Go Evaluation Function”.

Best of Session Poster Paper Award at the IEEE-INNS IJCNN 1999 for the paper entitled
“Experimental Studies with a Continually Online Trained Artificial Neural Network
Controller for a Turbogenerator”.

Best of Session Poster Paper Award at the IEEE-INNS IJCNN 1999 for the paper entitled
“Fed-Batch Dynamic Fermentor Using Adaptive Critic Designs”.

Received during Undergraduate Education between 1989 and 1994:

Award for the Best Student in Character and Learning at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University
(ATBU) in the academic year 1992/1993.

Award for the Best Student in the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology at the
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) in the academic year 1992/1993.

Award for the Best Final Year Project in the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology
at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) in the academic year 1992/1993.

Award for the Best Student in the Electrical Engineering Programme at the Abubakar Tafawa
Balewa University (ATBU) in the academic year 1992/1993.

Ashaka Cement Co. Award for the Best Final Year Project in the Electrical Engineering
Programme at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) in the academic year
1992/1993.

Award for the Best Student in the Telecommunications in the Electrical Engineering
Programme at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) in the academic year
1992/1993.

Award for the Best Student in the Electronics in the Electrical Engineering Programme at the
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) in the academic year 1992/1993.

Award for the Best 500 Level Project in the Electrical Engineering Programme at the Abubakar
Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) in the academic year 1991/1992.

Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship for the academic years - 1990/1991, 1991/1992 & 1992/1993.

Dean’s List for the academic year 1989/1990.