
Senior Member of ACM and IEEE
Guest Associate Editor in AI in Business,
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (Scopus Indexed)
Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Risk and Contingency Management
Associate Professor
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Awards
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Outstanding Paper Award in the 2021 Emerald Literati Awards - Che, F., Strang, K.D., & Vajjhala, N.R. (2020). Voice of farmers in the agriculture crisis in North-East Nigeria: Focus group insights from extension workers. International Journal of Development Issues. Volume 19, Issue 1, pp. 43-61. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJDI-08-2019-0136. Emerald Insight. Indexed in Scopus, Cabell’s and Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC), Journal Quality List – C. Scopus CiteScore - 0.9 (2020) and 1.2 (2021).
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Best Paper Award for the paper titled “Examining Data Mining Classification Techniques for Predicting Early Childhood Development in Nigeria”. International Conference on Data Science and Management - ICDSM 2021. February 19-20, 2021, Bhubaneswar, India. Proceedings of the Conference to be published by Springer Nature as part of the Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communication Technologies.
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Best Paper Award for the paper titled “An Exploratory Study on the Efficacy of Big Data Analytics to Indian SMEs”. International Conference on Business and Economics - ICBE 2018. June 25-27 2018.
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Best Paper Award – Distinguished Research Awards at the 2017 International Conference on Business and Economics and 12th International Conference of Korea Distribution Science Association (KODISA), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
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University of Phoenix – School of Advanced Studies (SAS) Research Award Program 2016 – one of the top 4 applicants selected for this award program.
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Best Professor of the Year Award for the Academic year 2011-2012, University of New York Tirana, Tirana, Albania.
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Doctoral Research Assistantship Scholarship, University of Phoenix, 2012-2013 – one of the top 5 applicants selected for this scholarship.