Dr. Augustine Ikpehai PhD, CEng, FHEA, MIET
Senior Lecturer
Summary
Dr Augustine Ikpehai received his PhD in Smart Grid communication from the Manchester Metropolitan University and MSc in Communication Engineering from Lancaster University, both in UK. He is a chartered engineer and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Augustine joined Sheffield Hallam University in January 2019 in the Department of Engineering & Mathematics. He has several years’ experience in industry and research with core expertise in Smart Grid, IoT and Intelligent Infrastructure.
About
Before joining Sheffield Hallam, Augustine was as a post-doctoral researcher in Electrical & Electronic Engineering Division, Manchester Metropolitan University. During his PhD and Post-Doc, Augustine was involved in many research projects such as Innovate UK "City Verve" IoT for Smart City project in which he was the task lead for IoT access technologies. The other projects are: H2020 “Triangulum” Smart Cities project, TSB/EPSRC “Smart In-building Micro-grid for Energy Management" and the UK-South Korean EPSRC "Peer to Peer (P2P) Energy Trading/Sharing".
Augustine publishes widely in leading peer-reviewed journals and conferences. His current research interests include EV charging network planning and scheduling, intelligent systems for critical infrastructure, smart wireless power transfer, transactive energy systems and cyber security in critical infrastructure.
Augustine has served as member of organising committee and Technical Program Committee in many IEEE conferences as well as referee in many renowned journals. Prior his PhD, Augustine worked as a Communication Network Engineer at Zenith Bank Plc, Nigeria where he obtained industry certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, CCIE (written), JNCIA and JNCIS.
He is a member of Centre for Automation and Robotic Research as well as Hallam Energy.
Awards and Distinctions:
• Winner, MMU Research Knowledge Exchange Award, 2016
• Winner, MMU Knowledge Exchange Outstanding Project of the year Award, 2016
• UK-Jordan Newton Fund/British Council Researchers Link Travel Grant, Amman, Jun 2019
• UK-Brazil Newton Fund/British Council Researchers Link Travel Grant, Foz do Iguacu, Sep 2019
• UK-China Newton Fund/British Council Researchers Link Travel Grant, Xi'An, Sep 2019
Senior Lecturer
Teaching
Department of Engineering and Mathematics
College of Business, Technology and Engineering
Electrical, Electronic Engineering and Future Technologies
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Professional Engineering Practice
• Communication Systems & Computer Networks
• Electronic, Electrical and Processor Engineering
• Vehicle Engineering Practice and Automotive Electrical System
Research
Recent Research Projects
• Jul 2023 - Jan 2025: Overhead Line Warning System - £581,721 (mostly funded by OFGEM Network Innovation Allowance to Northern Powergrid and SPEN and balance funded by UKPN).
• Feb 2022 - Dec 2022: Optimal Scheduling of Electric Vehicle-Integrated Multi-Energy System with High Renewable Generation - £83,986 (DTE Network+ funded by EPSRC grant reference EP/S032053/1).
Prior joining Sheffield, Augustine worked as PDRA/RA in the following projects:
• Triangulum- a €23M EU H2020 Smart Cities project (G/Agreement 646578-Triangulum-H2020-2014-2015/H2020-SCC-2014) in collaboration with 21 other partners in Europe.
• Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading, and Sharing-3M (Multi-times, Multi-scales, Multi-qualities)- EPSRC UK-South Korea: EPSRC UK-South Korea, partners: Bath (Lead), Oxford, Imperial and 5 South Korean institutions, G/ Agreement EP/N03466X/1, £2M, 2016- 2019
• City Verve - a £10M Innovate UK-funded IoT/Smart City project in collaboration with 22 other partners in UK ( Grant Innovate UK 102561).
• Smart In-building Micro-grid for Energy Management- a £700K research project funded by TSB/EPSRC (G/Agreement EP/M506758/1 through Innovate U.K. Grant 101836) in partnership with 1 SME.
Open Grid Systems Ltd, Frazer Nash Consulting, UKPN, Northern Power Grid, SPEN, Otaski Energy Systems, RINA Tech UK Ltd
Publications
Journal articles
Popoola, O., Rodrigues, M., Marchang, J., Shenfield, A., Ikpehai, A., & Popoola, J. (2023). A critical literature review of security and privacy in smart home healthcare schemes adopting IoT & blockchain: problems, challenges and solutions. Blockchain: Research and Applications. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcra.2023.100178
Mudiyanselage, M.W., Aghdam, F.H., Kazemi-Razi, M., Chaudhari, K., Marzband, M., Ikpehai, A., ... Harris, G. (2023). A multi-agent framework for electric vehiclescharging power forecast and smart planning ofurban parking lots. IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification. http://doi.org/10.1109/TTE.2023.3289196
Ahmadi, S.E., Kazemi-Razia, S.M., Marzband, M., Ikpehai, A., & Abusorrahb, A. (2023). Multi-Objective stochastic techno-economic-environmental optimization of distribution networks with G2V and V2G systems. Electric Power Systems Research, 218. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2023.109195
Daramola, A.S., Ikpehai, A., Ahmadi, S.E., & Marzband, M. (2023). A cost-effective and ecological stochastic optimization for integration of distributed energy resources in energy networks considering vehicle-to-grid and combined heat and power technologies. Journal of Energy Storage, 57. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2022.106203
Ahmadi, S.E., Marzband, M., Ikpehai, A., & Abusorrah, A. (2022). Optimal stochastic scheduling of plug-in electricvehicles as mobile energy storage systems for resilienceenhancement of multi-agent multi-energy networkedmicrogrids. Journal of Energy Storage, 55 (B). http://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2022.105566
Jogunola, O., Adebisi, B., Anoh, K., Ikpehai, A., Hammoudeh, M., & Harris, G. (2022). Multi-commodity Optimization of Peer-to-peer Energy Trading Resources in Smart Grid. Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, 10 (1), 29-39. http://doi.org/10.35833/MPCE.2020.000136
Otebolaku, A., Enamamu, T., Alfoudi, A., Ikpehai, A., Marchang, J., & Lee, G.M. (2020). Deep Sensing: Inertial and Ambient Sensing for Activity Context Recognition Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. Sensors, 20 (13), 3803. http://doi.org/10.3390/s20133803
Anoh, K.O.O., Maharjan, S., Ikpehai, A., Zhang, Y., & Adebisi, B. (2020). Energy Peer-to-Peer Trading in Virtual Microgrids in Smart Grids: A Game-Theoretic Approach. IEEE Trans. Smart Grid, 11, 1264-1275. http://doi.org/10.1109/TSG.2019.2934830
Jogunola, O., Adebisi, B., Ikpehai, A., Popoola, S., Gui, G., Gacanin, H., & Ci, S. (2020). Consensus Algorithms and Deep Reinforcement Learning in Energy Market: A Review. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. http://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2020.3032162
Rozman, M., Ikpehai, A., Adebisi, B., Rabie, K., Gacanin, H., Ji, H., & Fernando, M. (2019). Smart wireless power transmission system forautonomous EV charging. IEEE Access, 7, 112240-112248. http://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2912931
Anoh, K., Maharjan, S., Ikpehai, A., Zhang, Y., & Adebisi, B. (2019). Energy Peer-to-Peer Trading in Virtual Microgrids in Smart Grids: A Game-Theoretic Approach. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 1. http://doi.org/10.1109/TSG.2019.2934830
Ikpehai, A., Adebisi, B., Rabie, K.M., Anoh, K., Ande, R.E., Hammoudeh, M., ... Mbanaso, U.M. (2018). Low-Power Wide Area Network Technologies for Internet-of-Things: A Comparative Review. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 1. http://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2018.2883728
Jogunola, O., Adebisi, B., Anoh, K., Ikpehai, A., Hammoudeh, M., Harris, G., & Gacanin, H. (2018). Distributed adaptive primal algorithm for P2P-ETS over unreliable communication links. Energies, 11 (9), 2331. http://doi.org/10.3390/en11092331
Adebisi, B., Rabie, K.M., Ikpehai, A., Soltanpur, C., & Wells, A. (2018). Vector OFDM transmission over non-Gaussian power line communication channels. IEEE systems journal, 12 (3), 2344-2352. http://doi.org/10.1109/JSYST.2017.2669086
Adebisi, B., Anoh, K., Rabie, K.M., Ikpehai, A., Fernando, M., & Wells, A. (2018). A New Approach to Peak Threshold Estimation for Impulsive Noise Reduction Over Power Line Fading Channels. IEEE Systems Journal, 1-12. http://doi.org/10.1109/JSYST.2018.2808230
Jogunola, O., Ikpehai, A., Anoh, K., Adebisi, B., Hammoudeh, M., Gacanin, H., & Harris, G. (2018). Comparative analysis of P2P architectures for energy trading and sharing. Energies, 11 (1), 62. http://doi.org/10.3390/en11010062
Jogunola, O., Ikpehai, A., Anoh, K., Adebisi, B., Hammoudeh, M., Son, S.-.Y., & Harris, G. (2017). State-of-the-art and prospects for peer-to-peer transaction-based energy system. Energies, 10 (12), 2106. http://doi.org/10.3390/en10122106
Rabie, K.M., Adebisi, B., Gacanin, H., Nauryzbayev, G., & Ikpehai, A. (2017). Performance evaluation of multi-hop relaying over non-gaussian PLC channels. Journal of communications and networks, 19 (5), 531-538. http://doi.org/10.1109/JCN.2017.000084
Rozman, M., Fernando, M., Adebisi, B., Rabie, K.M., Collins, T., Kharel, R., & Ikpehai, A. (2017). A new technique for reducing size of a wpt system using two-loop strongly-resonant inductors. Energies, 10 (10), 1614. http://doi.org/10.3390/en10101614
Sha'aban, Y.A., Ikpehai, A., Adebisi, B., & Rabie, K.M. (2017). Bi-directional coordination of plug-in electric vehicles with economic model predictive control. Energies, 10 (10), 1507. http://doi.org/10.3390/en10101507
Ikpehai, A., Adebisi, B., Rabie, K.M., Fernando, M., & Wells, A. (2017). Energy-Efficient Vector OFDM PLC Systems with Dynamic Peak-Based Threshold Estimation. IEEE Access, 5, 10723-10733. http://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2709254
Rozman, M., Fernando, M., Adebisi, B., Rabie, K.M., Kharel, R., Ikpehai, A., & Gacanin, H. (2017). Combined conformal strongly-coupled magnetic resonance for efficient wireless power transfer. Energies, 10 (4), 498. http://doi.org/10.3390/en10040498
Tsado, Y., Gamage, K.A.A., Adebisi, B., Lund, D., Rabie, K.M., & Ikpehai, A. (2017). Improving the reliability of optimised link state routing in a smart grid neighbour area network based wireless mesh network using multiple metrics. Energies, 10 (3), 287. http://doi.org/10.3390/en10030287
Ikpehai, A., Adebisi, B., Rabie, K.M., Haggar, R., & Baker, M. (2016). Experimental study of 6LoPLC for home energy management systems. Energies, 9 (12), 1046. http://doi.org/10.3390/en9121046
Ikpehai, A., Adebisi, B., & Rabie, K.M. (2016). Broadband PLC for Clustered Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) Architecture. Energies, 9 (7), 569. http://doi.org/10.3390/en9070569
Ali, A., Ikpehai, A., Adebisi, B., & Mihaylova, L. (2016). Location prediction optimisation in WSNs using kriging interpolation. IET Wireless Sensor Systems, 6 (3), 74-81. http://doi.org/10.1049/iet-wss.2015.0079
Aiyelabowo, P., Noordin, N.K., Ikpehai, A., & Adebisi, B. (2015). Cooperative Relaying In Power Line Environment: A Survey and Tutorial. International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer and Communication Engineering, 3 (5), 4224-4247. http://doi.org/10.15680/ijircce.2015.0305121
Conference papers
Ikpehai, A., Sunkanmi, O., & Anoh, K. (2023). Community energy storage system for cost benefits. In 2023 IEEE Jordan International Joint Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Jordan, 22 May 2023 - 24 May 2023 (pp. 205-210). IEEE: http://doi.org/10.1109/JEEIT58638.2023.10185742
Anoh, K., Ikpehai, A., Adebisi, B., Rabie, K., Popoola, W., & Gacanin, H. (2019). OFDM systems design using harmonic wavelets. 2019 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC). http://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2019.8885573
Anoh, K., Bajovic, D., Ikpehai, A., Adebisi, B., & Vukobratovic, D. (2019). Enabling peer to peer energy trading in virtual microgrids with LP-WAN. In IEEE EUROCON 2019 -18th International Conference on Smart Technologies. IEEE: http://doi.org/10.1109/EUROCON.2019.8861594
Ikpehai, A., Adebisi, B., Anoh, K., Jogunola, O., & Hammoudeh, M. (2019). Adaptive Routing Algorithm for Information Management in Distributed Microgrids in Smart Grid. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 52 (4). http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.08.232Get
Ikpehai, A., Adebisi, B., & Anoh, K. (2019). Can 6LoPLC Enable Indoor IoT ? 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and its Applications (ISPLC). http://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2019.8693430
Ikpehai, A., Adebisi, B., & Anoh, K. (2019). Effects of traffic characteristics on energy consumption of IoT End Devices in Smart City. In Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium, Thessaloniki, Greece, 23 October 2018 - 25 October 2018. IEEE: http://doi.org/10.1109/GIIS.2018.8635744
Anoh, K.O.O., Ikpehai, A., Rabie, K.M., Adebisi, B., & Popoola, W.O. (2018). PAPR reduction of wavelet-OFDM systems using pilot symbols. ISPLC, 1-6. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/8356884/proceeding
Anoh, K., Ikpehai, A., Bajovic, D., Jogunola, O., Adebisi, B., Vukobratovic, D., & Hammoudeh, M. (2018). Virtual microgrids: A management concept for peer-to-peer energy trading. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 43. http://doi.org/10.1145/3231053.3231096
Anoh, K., Ikpehai, A., Rabie, K., Adebisi, B., & Popoola, W. (2018). PAPR reduction of wavelet-OFDM systems using pilot symbols. 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and its Applications, ISPLC 2018, 129-134. http://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2018.8360242
Ikpehai, A., Adebisi, B., & Kharel, R. (2016). Smart street lighting over narrowband PLC in a smart city: The Triangulum case study. IEEE International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks, CAMAD, 242-247. http://doi.org/10.1109/CAMAD.2016.7790365
Ikpehai, A., & Adebisi, B. (2016). Home energy management system over low-power narrowband PLC. 2016 10th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, CSNDSP 2016. http://doi.org/10.1109/CSNDSP.2016.7573998
Rozman, M., Ikpehai, A., Adebisi, B., & Rabie, K.M. (2016). Channel characterisation of cooperative relaying power line communication systems. 2016 10th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, CSNDSP 2016, 1-5. http://doi.org/10.1109/CSNDSP.2016.7574000
Ikpehai, A., & Adebisi, B. (2015). 6LoPLC for smart grid applications. 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and Its Applications, ISPLC 2015, 211-215. http://doi.org/10.1109/ISPLC.2015.7147616
Ali, A., Costas, X., Lyudmila, M., Adebisi, B., & Ikpehai, A. (2014). Kriging interpolation based sensor node position management in dynamic environment. 2014 9th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks & Digital Sign (CSNDSP). http://doi.org/10.1109/csndsp.2014.6923842
Book chapters
Ahmadi, S.E., Marzband, M., Ikpehai, A., & Abusorrah, A. (2024). Optimal Scheduling of an Islanded Multi-Energy Microgrid Considering Power-to-Gas and Carbon Capture Technologies. In Advances in Clean Energy Systems and Technologies. (pp. 161-170). Springer Nature Switzerland: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49787-2_16
Other activities
Augustine serves as member of organising committee and Technical Program Committee in many IEEE conferences as well as referee in many renowned journals.
Postgraduate supervision
• Matjaz Rozman, (Co-Supervisor), Completed: April 2019.
• Cristiano Fernando Lewandoski, (Co-Supervisor), PhD UNIOESTE, Brazil 2020 -
• Olusogo Joshua Popoola, (Advisor ), 2021 -
• Syed Haseeb Haider, (Co-Supervisor), 2022-
• Elizabeth Michalenko, (Director of Studies), 2022-
• Jude Enenche Ameh, (Co-Supervisor), 2023 -