Prof. Ibrahim
Adepoju Adeyanju
Professor of Computer Engineering and AI researcher, leading the company that runs the Federal Government of Nigeria's digital infrastructure.
- PhD Computing, RGU Aberdeen
- MIT-ETT Fellow
- COREN Engineer
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- States reached by GBB fibre infrastructure
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Industry awards under his leadership at GBB
Federal professionals on GovMail
Scholarly citations
States reached by GBB fibre infrastructure
Profile
A scholar at the helm of national infrastructure
Before Abuja, there was Aberdeen — and before that, Ogbomoso. Prof. Adeyanju graduated top of his class at LAUTECH, earned a PhD in Computing at Robert Gordon University, and taught at MIT as an Empowering the Teachers fellow before rising to Professor of Intelligent Systems at Federal University Oye-Ekiti.
Today he applies that same rigour to Galaxy Backbone Limited — the company entrusted with Nigeria's sovereign cloud, national fibre backbone and the digital services used across the entire federal government.
More about him“The quiet architecture of Nigeria's digital future.”
— BusinessDay, on Galaxy Backbone at 20
Leadership at GBB
Two years of purposeful delivery
Since February 2024, the Integrated Digital Transformation Strategy has repositioned Galaxy Backbone as one of Nigeria's most strategic digital institutions.
With Galaxy Backbone's executive management team, Abuja.
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1Government Cloud
Optimised and expanded Nigeria's sovereign government cloud, hosting critical systems for ministries, departments and agencies while advancing national data sovereignty.
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GovMail
Launched a locally-developed secure email platform now serving over 100,000 federal government professionals.
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Project 774
Extending broadband connectivity to underserved Local Government Areas — nine LGAs connected and counting, on the road to all 774.
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Fibre-to-Hostel
Delivered campus connectivity projects at the University of Lagos, University of Abuja and University of Jos, bringing students onto the national backbone.
Research & Academia
970+ citations, two decades of enquiry
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Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Core research in intelligent systems, pattern recognition and applied machine learning classifiers.
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Natural Language Processing
Pioneering work on local language technology, including a database corpus for Yoruba handwriting and Yoruba character recognition.
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Information Retrieval
EPSRC-sponsored postdoctoral research at Robert Gordon University on textual case-based reasoning and retrieval systems.
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Embedded & Microprocessor Systems
Applied research in microprocessor control and embedded systems for real-world engineering problems.
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