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Name: Prof. Kaku Sagary NOKOE Email: nokoe_biomaths@yahoo.co.uk, nokoe@uds.edu.gh
Telephone Number:(233) (0)71 22369
SCHOOLS ATTENDED
- 1954-l96l Anglican Mixed School, Axim, Ghana
- l96l-l962 Catholic Middle Boys School, Tarkwa, Ghana
- l962-l967 Axim & Apam Secondary Schools (O/Level),Ghana
- l967-l969 St. Peters' School (A/Level), Nkwatia-Kwahu Ghana
- l969-l972 University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
- l973-l976 University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada
Academic Qualifications:
- 1972 BSc (Honours) Forestry, 2nd Class Upper, Ibadan
- l974 M.F (Biometrics) British Columbia
- 1976 Ph.D (Biometrics) British Columbia,
APPOINTMENT/EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
- 31 October 2003 - Date: Full Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics & Computer Science, University for Development Studies (UDS) Navrongo Campus, PO Box 24, Navrongo Ghana
UDS_Teaching & Learning Innovative Fund Coordinator, 2004-
Coordinator, UDS_France French Language Centre, 2004-
` Tamale, Ghana
- Visiting Appointments: Professor, Regional MSc Biometry Programme, University of Nairobi, Kenya 2004
Professor, MSc Applied Statistics/Biostatistics Programme, Center for Statistics, Limburgs Universitair Centrum (University of Hasselt) Diepenbeek, Belgium, Belgium April-June 2003; April-June 2005
- 24 October 2001 - 31 Dec 2003: Full Professor of Biometrics (and Head of Department, from November 17, 2001), Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Agriculture, PMB 2240 Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria [Terminal Leave: November-December 2003]
- Visiting Appointments: Visiting Professor, School of Mathematics, Statistics & Information Technology, University of Natal (now KwazuNatal) Pietermaritzburg South Africa February-March, 2002.
- 15 Oct. 1994 - April 2002: Biometrician, International Institute of Tropical
Agriculture (IITA), PMB 5320, Ibadan, Nigeria [Terminal study leave from 1 Nov 2001 - 30 April 2002]
- Feb. 1993 - 14 Oct. 1994: Head, Computing & Biometrics, International Livestock Centre for Africa, Box 5689, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
- Feb. 1987 - Feb. 1993: Head, Biomathematics Unit & Senior Scientist/Modeller,
Livestock Pests Research Program, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Post Office Box 30772, Nairobi, Kenya.
- June l984 - Feb. l987: Senior Lecturer in Biometrics, Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
- March l98l - June l984: Biometrician, Biometrics Division, Forestry Research
Institute of Nigeria, P M B 5054, Ibadan, Nigeria
Part-time Lecturer, University of Ibadan, Ibadan
Ambrose Ali University, Ekpoma (1983 - 1984)
- October l977 - Feb. l98l: Biometrician and Head of Statistics/Records Division,
National Cereals Research Institute, Ibadan, Nigeria
Part-time Lecturer, University of Ibadan, Ibadan
- October l976 - Sept. l977: Lecturer in Forest Biometrics, Department of Forest
Resources Management, University of Ibadan, Ibadan
- July l972 - Sept. l973: Assistant Research Officer, Forest Products Research
Institute (now FORIG), KNUST P O Box 63 Kumasi
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AS TEACHER AND RESEARCHER
- PRESENTATATION OF INVITED PAPERS AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS
- International Biometric Conferences, Hamilton-New Zealand (1992); Cape Town - South Africa (1998) ; Cairns - Australia (2004)
- First SPRUCE (Statistics in Public Resource, Utilities, and Care of the Environment) Conference, Lisbon-Portugal (1992),
- CTA-University of Hohenheim convened workshop on 'Strengthening of Biometry and Statistics in Agricultural Research' (1996), Hohenheim Germany
- 5th Caribbean and South American Network Meeting of the International Biometric Society, Crown Point-Tobago (1999)
- The Université Nationale du Benin seminar on 'Mieux collecter l'information et mieux l'analyser: le cas de l'experimentation agricole', Cotonou-Benin Republic (1999).
- Silver Jubilee of Nigeria Statistical Association, Abuja (2001),
- 2nd International Biometric Society Conference of the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Antalya, Turkey, 12-15 January 2003
- SUSAN-IBS, University of Natal, South Africa 7-12 July 2003;
- First Pan African Biomathematics Congress, Makerere University, Kampala Uganda 8-12 December 2003.
- PRESENTATION OF SHORT COURSES AT DIFFERENT LOCATIONS IN AFRICA
- Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA, Netherlands) sponsored courses on Data Analysis in Ghana, Nigeria, Mozambique and ADB-sponsored course in Cameroon from 2001 to 2004.
- Statistics and Statistical Computing courses for graduate research fellows of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Nigeria, Benin Republic and Uganda 1995-2002.
- Statistical handling of messy-crop livestock data [For selected biometricians from Congo,
Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Malawi] 15- 26 June 1998
- Analyse multivarié. Bouaké, Cote d-Ivoire, 12-21 January 1998
- Statistical data analyses with GENSTAT. [For participants of the IFAD supported Zanzibar
- Small Holder Support Project (IFAD-ZSSP)] Zanzibar, 03-21 November 1997.
- Statistical data analyses with GENSTAT. [For participants of the Southern African Root Crop Research Network (SARRNET)] Pretoria, South Africa, 13-31 October 1997.
- Biometric applications in crop-livestock systems. IITA-Ibadan, 14-25 April 1997
- Advanced statistical computing and data analyses with GENSTAT/SAS [For the Eastern and Central African Root Crop Research Network (EARRNET)] Kampala, Uganda. 1996, 1997
- Advanced statistical computing course for agronomists and breeders (of the West and Central African Maize Network, WECAMAN of IITA). Ilorin, Nigeria 9-22 June 1996
- Use of computer simulated models for tick management. International Group Training course on Development of tick control strategies for tropical developing world, ICIPE, Nairobi, 14 September, to 9 October, 1992.
- International Training Course on "Efficient data collection, analyses and interpretation in pest management", ICIPE, Nairobi and Mbita Point, Kenya 21 Oct. - 9 November 1991.
- Quantitative basis for pest management. PESTNET Methodology Workshop, Harare Zimbabwe 14-20 October 1990
- Statistical issues: PESTNET Methodology Workshop. Harare, Zimbabwe 14-20 Oct., 1990
- Error reduction procedures in data collection and analysis. PESTNET Methodology Workshop, Mogadishu, Somalia, 5-10 February 1989
- Statistical aspects of alley farming: Designs and data analysis. AFNETA Course on Alley Farming, IITA Ibadan, Nigeria, 7-18 August 1989.
- Ninth & 10th International Training Course on "Components essential for ecologically sound pest & vector management systems" (Nairobi 10-29 August 1986 & 1987). Lectures on Population processes/modeling, integrated pest-control strategies, and sequential charts
CONSULTANCIES (TRAINING & DATA ANALYSIS): 2001-date:
- Resource person: Statistics with applications in veterinary research, ITC - International Trypanotolerance Centre, Banjul, The Gambia 23-28 April, 2001.
- Course Director & Resource person: Experimental Data Analysis with SAS, National Root Crops Research Institute, 19 Feb - 2 March 2001, Umudike Nigeria
- IITA Graduate Research Fellows course in Statistical Computing - 2001/2002
- Course Director & Resource person: CTA-CSIR Biometrics course for researchers, CSIR-INSTI 8-20 July 2002
- Course Director & Resource person: CTA Biometrics Training course for Mozambican National Scientists, Maputo 18-29 November 2002
- Consultant Biometrician, Nigeria Food Consumption & Nutrition Survey (FCNS 2001), USAID/USDA/UNICEF/FGN/IITA, 2001-2003
- Course Director & Resource person: ADB-IRAD sponsored course on 'Statistical Analysis with SAS' for Cameroon Researchers, 17 - 27 February 2003.
- Consultant Data Analyst: EPHTA socio-economic data analysis, IITA Humid Forest Centre, Nkolbisson, Yaoundé Cameroon February 2003
- Course Director & Resource person: CTA sponsored Regional Course on "Scientific Data Management", University of Agriculture, Abeokuta 26 July - August 2003
- Course Director & Resource person: CTA sponsored Regional Course on "Scientific Data Management II", University of Agriculture, Abeokuta 1 March - 12 March 2004
- Resource person: CTA sponsored Caribbean and South America Regional Course on 'Scientific Data Management', St Kitts, 13-18 September 2004
- Course Director & Resource person: CTA sponsored Regional Course on 'Scientific Data Management III', University of Agriculture, Abeokuta 9 March - 19 March 2005
- Consultant to Bolgatanga Polytechnic on TALIF Proposal Improvement, National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE), Accra Ghana [August, 2005]
- Course Director & Resource person: CTA sponsored Regional Course on 'Scientific Data Management IV', University of Agriculture, Abeokuta 20 March - 31 March 2006
- Course Director & Resource person: CTA sponsored Regional Course on 'Scientific Data Management', CSIR-INSTI, Accra, Ghana 12 March - 26 March 2007
OTHER EXPERIENCE/ACCOMPLISHMENT
- External Examiner, Ph.D. candidates, University of Zambia 1992; Moi University 1992/3; University of Ibadan, 2002
- External Examiner, M.Sc. candidates, Makerere University 2001, 2002 and 2004 sessions; University of Natal 2002;
- External Assessor, Associate/Professorial candidate, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria Nigeria (Biometrics) 1994/5
- Associate Editor, Environmental and Ecological Statistics (1992 - 2004)
- Associate Editor, JABES 2003-2005
- Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Tropical Forest Resources (1997 - date);
- Member, Editorial Board (IITA Research) & Public. Review Committee (1994 - 2001)
- Member, Award Fund Committee, International Biometric Society (1996-2000)
- Founding Member, Sub-Saharan Africa Network of Inter. Biometric Society (1993-date)
- Group Secretary, International Biometric Society, Kenya (1992-Feb.93); Nigeria (1997-2000); Member, Editorial Advisory Committee, International Biometric Society (1994-1998)
- Principal coordinator, and member of Local Organizing Committee of the 5th Scientific Conference of the Sub-Saharan Africa Network (SUSAN) of the International Biometric Society, IITA-Ibadan, 23-27 August 1999.
- Served on the CTA-convened technical team (1995) that drafted the terms of reference of a special study on 'Strengthening of Biometry and Statistics in Agricultural Research'.
- Session Organiser, 55th session of International Statistical Institute (ISI 2005 Sydney Australia), on 'Agricultural Investigations in Challenging Situations'.
- External Assessor, Professorial candidates, University of Ibadan (Agricultural Engineering) and University of Nigeria, Nsukka (Statistics) Nigeria 2005.
- Member, International Programme Committee, IBS 2006
- Member, International Biometric Society GONC, 2006
MEMBERSHIP OF UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES
- Member, Senate of the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (UNAAB) : [2001- 2003]
- Member, Board of Studies, College of Natural Sciences, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta : [2001- 2003]
- Member, Faculty Board, College of Natural Sciences,University of Agriculture, Abeokuta : [2001- 2003]
- Chairman, UNAAB Senate Committee on Publicity of National University Commission Rankings of Universities in Nigeria [2002]
- Member, University Committee on Excess Workload, UNAAB [2002- 2003]
- Member, University Committee on NUPTAS UNAAB, [2002- 2003]
- Member, Academic Board, University for Development Studies, Ghana [2003-date]
- Member, UDS Council Search Committee for Registrar, 2004-2005
- Member (representing Academic Board), UDS Appointments and Promotion Board (Senior Members), 2004-date
- Member and Campus Coordinator, Review Committee, Teaching & Learning Innovative Fund (TALIF) 2004-date
- Member, UDS Ad-hoc Committee on -Regulations Relating to the Bachelor Degree Programme and for Conducting Examinations:, 2005
- Member (non voting), UDS Council 1st December 2005 - 31st September 2007
- Member, Finance Committee 1st December 2005 - 31st September 2007
- Chairman, Housing Committee, UDS 1st December 2005 - 31st September 2007
PUBLICATIONS
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS ATTENDED (2000-Date)
- World Cowpea Research Conference III, IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria, 4-7 September 2000
- 19th Annual Conference of the Horticultural Society of Nigeria, Nsukka, 28-31 May 2001
- 7th Scientific meeting of SUSAN -International Biometric Society, Kampala Uganda June2001
- 8th Scientific meeting of SUSAN -International Biometric Society, Natal, S. Africa June 2003
- AMU - International Conference of Mathematical Sciences, Abeokuta 16-22 November 2003
- 1st Pan-African Biomathematics Congress, Makerere University, Kampala 8-12 December 2003
- South Africa Statistical Association, 51st Annual Conference, Univ of the Free State, Bloemfontein 2-5 Nov 2004
MEMBERSHIP OF SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATIONS
Sub Saharan Africa Network of IBS
- Nigerian Statistical Association (up to December 2003)
- International Association of Statistical Computing
- Elected Member, International Statistical Institute (from 2002)
- African Society of Biomathematics (Board Member 2003-Date)
- Fellow, Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (from 2006)
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